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Stenden
University to Host
1st
IIPT European Conference
International Institute
for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) is pleased to announce that
Stenden University (formerly CHN University) will host the
First IIPT European Conference:
“Bridging the North–South Divide
through
Sustainable Tourism Development”
The Conference, which
will take place in both The Hague and Leeuwarden, is scheduled
for the week of October 19, 2008.
The Conference is in support of the United Nations declared
International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence
for the Children of the World (2001-2010), and the U.N. Millennium
Development Goals.
Topics to be addressed
in the context of the theme “Bridging the North – South
Divide through Sustainable Tourism Development” will include:
- Gaining greater
leverage from North – South initiatives including the roles
of Donor Agencies, Foundations, and NGO’s
- South – South
Initiatives in Sustainable Tourism Development
- Innovative Initiatives
within Developing Countries, particularly Least Developed
Countries (LDC's) and the Small Islands Developing States
(SIDS)
- Innovative Private
Sector Initiatives
- Recent Developments
in Micro-Enterprise
- Volunteer Tourism,
Philanthropic Tourism, Fair Trade Tourism
- Knowledge Transfer
and the Contribution of Technology to Sustainable Tourism
Development
- The Role of
Culture and Sport
Persons wishing to nominate “Success Stories”
or “Models of Best Practice” in any of the above topics – or
other relevant areas – are invited to send project/program
descriptions to: Amy Garrett, Email: agarrett@iipt.org.
In announcing the 1st
IIPT European Conference, IIPT Founder and President Louis D’Amore said, “I am most impressed with
the value driven and globally oriented foundations of Stenden’s
educational programs – and the university’s student-centered
visionary leadership. Modern facilities add further to the
dynamic nature of the university and its nurturing, learning
environment.”
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well, the city of Leeuwarden – the “Best Student City of
the Netherlands” – provides a supportive and stimulating
setting to the Stenden University students, and blends seamlessly
with the peaceful rural environment of Fryslân. The Hague
– a short distance away, is a unique beacon of inspiration
as an international “City of Knowledge” and “City of Peace,
Justice and Security.”
The University is truly international, having
campuses in Thailand, Qatar, South Africa, and Germany in addition
to its main campus in the Netherlands.
Stenden University
Vice President and Executive Board Member Dr. Klaas-Wybo
van der Hoek stated "We are honoured and
pleased that IIPT has agreed to hold its 1st European Conference
at our university and offer a warm welcome to all delegates
to The Netherlands, Fryslan, Leeuwarden and Stenden University.
We look forward to hosting the conference as we share IIPT’s
philosophy
and values regarding the contribution that tourism can make
towards a sustainable and peaceful world and seek to pass
these values on to our students together with the necessary
knowledge
that can move us towards these ends.”
 The Conference will
bring together senior executives from both the public and
private sectors of tourism;
senior officials
of UN Agencies, the European Union, World Bank, UN World Tourism
Organization, and other international organizations; and relevant
NGO’s, as well as policy makers, educators, leading practitioners,
entrepreneurs, future leaders of the industry, and senior representatives
of related sectors including culture, environment and economic
development.
The 1st IIPT European
Conference builds on the foundations of: three Global Summits:
Amman 2000; Geneva 2003; and Pattaya,
Thailand 2005; three Global Conferences: Vancouver 1988; Montreal
1994; and Glasgow 1999; four African Conferences: Nelspruit,
Mpumalanga Province, South Africa 2002; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,
2003; Lusaka, Zambia, 2005; and Kampala, Uganda 2007; and several
smaller conferences, symposia and workshops in Europe, Australia,
North America, the Middle East and the Caribbean.
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Proud Partner in 4th African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference:
Catching the Fire |
IIPT
is again proud to be a partner in the 4th African Diaspora Heritage
Trail International Conference: Catching the Fire being held in
Bermuda from 26th to 30th July 2008 being hosted by Premier Dr.
the Honorable Ewart F. Brown, JP, MP, and the Government of Bermuda.
The Conference continues in the tradition of gathering diverse
talented and experienced persons from throughout the African Diaspora
who are committed to the authentic research, documentation, promotion
and dynamic development of African Diaspora Heritage sites/venues,
museums, monuments, and cultural expressions.
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“Recapturing
and revisioning the concept of a cross-border African Diaspora
Heritage Trail, “CATCHING THE FIRE!” will translate the previous
planning and valuable dialogue into solid structure by featuring
the dynamic research of scholars, anthropologists, historical researchers,
students, artists and other stakeholders as they uncover, recover,
shape and ignite the Trail which retraces the footsteps of our
ancestors.”
It was at IIPT’s First Global Summit on Peace
through Tourism in Amman, Jordan, November 2000 that the late
Hon. David H. Allen was inspired with the vision of “The African Diaspora Heritage Trail” (ADHT). Within six months, the ADHT was launched as
a self-guided tour in Bermuda. It was subsequently presented in its full concept for the first time at the 1st IIPT African Conference on Peace through Tourism in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga
Province, South
Africa, March 2002.
In May 2002, Hon.
David H. Allen’s inspired idea took full flight with international
support at the First African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference
in Bermuda. In Hon. David Allen’s own words: “The aim of the
African Diaspora Heritage Trail is to identify, conserve, and
promote historic sites linked with the development and progress
of people of African descent.”
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Dr. Ewart Brown
Bermuda Premier
Hon. David Allen, the late Minister
of
Tourism, Bermuda
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With the continued bold leadership of Bermuda Premier, Dr. Ewart
F. Brown, the ADHT has since been developing a network of collaborators
who identify, build, finance, promote and market memorable heritage
destinations. ADHT destinations foster sustainable economic development,
provide inspiring educational experiences, produce quality cultural
heritage products that expose visitors to authentic African Diaspora
history and culture, and motivate local populations to become
active participants in the preservation and dissemination of
their own history and culture. The 4th ADHT Conference will identify specific heritage trails
in selected countries and physically place them on an interactive
“Trail Map”, highlighting the connections between the developing
components which make up an expanding trail of hope across borders
of diverse nations.
Interactive conference offerings are designed to include the
expertise of all participants, and convey the rich heritage and
culture of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora as
presented through their own artistic expressions, written and
oral histories, institution-building and policy making. Conference
attendees can expect to actively participate in educational and
professional development sessions, share model heritage trail
programs, enjoy networking on an international level, and receive
unparalleled technical assistance for their heritage tourism
programs.
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For
more information or to be added to the ADHT mailing list,
please contact:
The African Diaspora Heritage Trail Bermuda Foundation,
Bermuda Registered Charity #799, Department of Tourism,
Global House, 43 Church Street, Hamilton HM 12, Bermuda:
441 292 0023 x 1980 (phone); 441 292 7537 (fax); or e-mail
ljunos@gov.bm.
Upcoming details will be posted at: www.bermudatourism.com
and www.africandiasporaheritagetrail.com
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IIPT
Joint Symposium with Institute for Corporate Responsibility –
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IIPT
is proud to announce it is partnering with the Institute for Corporate
Responsibility of George Washington University, in a Joint Symposium
on the theme:
Peace through Commerce:
Harnessing the Power of the Global Tourism Industry
The Symposium, being organized in collaboration with the GW International
Institute for Tourism Studies, U.S. Institute for Peace and National
Geographic Society will take place 21-22, May 2008, at the George
Washington University Business School.
For more than fifteen years, the tourism industry has had programs
that focus on how it could contribute to peace. This history has
produced multiple examples of business experience from which there
is much to learn.
For approximately ten years, there has emerged a new area of academic
inquiry sometimes called “Peace through Commerce.” This interdisciplinary
academic endeavor has primarily focused on the conceptualization
of the ways in which business might foster peace and to institutionalize
those practices.
The time is opportune for a collaborative engagement of these
two initiatives. There is much they can learn from each other and
there is significant potential collaboration beginning with a symposium/workshop
and potentially extending far beyond.
The
goals of the Symposium are to :
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Initiate
a relationship between two institutes,
IIPT and ICR, whose work is complementary;
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Engage
in an active dialogue about how pragmatic
tourist practices and scholarly models
might be integrated to foster a stronger
approach to the promotion of peace through
commercially
driven sustainable tourism;
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Plan
a second, policy-oriented conference in
November 08 with a purpose of
having an impact on the foreign
policy of the next US Presidential
Administration including
efforts to encourage the U.S.
to rejoin the UN World Tourism Organization;
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Encourage
the publishing of academic papers through
an arrangement with
the Journal of Business
Ethics;
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and pursue
new avenues of dialogue and opportunity
that may be
discovered
at this symposium.
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Dr. Tim L. Fort
Louis D'Amore
Dr. Donald Hawkins
Dawn Drew
Raymond Gilpin
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Featured speakers will
include:
Dr. Timothy L. Fort, Executive Director of Institute for Corporate
Responsibility and Lindner-Gambal Professor of Business Ethics,
George Washington University
Louis D’Amore, Founder and President, International Institute
for Peace through Tourism
Dr. Donald E. Hawkins,
Eisenhower Professor of Tourism Policy and Executive Director,
International Institute for Tourism
Studies, George Washington University
Dawn Drew, Vice President and Publisher, National Geographic
Traveler and Vice Chair Travel Industry Association of
America (TIA)
Raymond Gilpin, Director of Economics and Conflict Center
of Innovation, U.S.Institute of Peace
Elliot Bloom, Senior Vice President and Chief Communications
Officer, Travelport
H.E. Professor Perezi K. Kamunanwire, Republic of Uganda
Ambassador to the U.S.
James Early, Director of Cultural Heritage Policy, Smithsonian
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Dr. Edwin Epstein, Emeritus Professor of Corporate
Responsibility, University of California-Berkeley
Dr. Stephen Lubkemann, Associate Professor of
Anthropology and International Affairs, George Washington University
Martha Honey, Executive
Director, Center on Ecotourism and Sustainable Development
Dr. Walter Jamieson, Dean of the School of Travel Industry Management,
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Timothy Marshall, President, Jamaica Business Resource Center
Robert McNulty, Founder and President, Partners for Livable Communities
Jamie Sweeting, Senior
Business Advisor, Conservation International
And others.
The GW Institute for Corporate Responsibility is devoted to the development
and dissemination of scholarship, including research and teaching pertaining
to corporate responsibility. It serves as a vehicle for continuing education,
curriculum development, conferences and seminars. By fostering a business-university-government
partnership—US and global—the ICR presents a unique knowledge creation and
dissemination asset, building scholarly capacity to meet global challenges
of the 21st century.
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1st IIPT
International Community Tourism Retreat
June
20 –24 2008
“Tourism
Entrepreneurship –Sustaining and Transforming Communities”
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The
1st IIPT International Community Tourism Retreat
will be held from June 20-24, 2008 in Kingston, Jamaica at
the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in association
with the Jamaica Hotel & Tourist Association (JHTA),
the Ministry of Tourism, the Jamaica Tourist Board, and
Countrystyle Community
Tourism Network.
Theme
for the Retreat is “Tourism
Entrepreneurship –Sustaining and Transforming
Communities.”
Participants will include Communities, Community Based Organizations,
Non-Government Organizations, Public Sector, Private Sector, special
interest organizations, educational groups and international community
tour operators and travel agents.
The Retreat will also include a Trade Show, special community tours and
the hosting of delegates in communities.
IIPT Caribbean President & Co-coordinator of the IIPT Community
Tourism Network, Diana McIntyre-Pike said,“this
Community Tourism Retreat will sensitize everyone to the business
of community tourism and give us an opportunity to present
Jamaica’s
two year community tourism entrepreneurship programme, the
Ministry of Tourism’s Spruce up Programme to community
representatives here and internationally and allow them
to interact with established community tourism entrepreneurs.”
Community
Tourism encourages the visitor to discover the appeal of
indigenous attributes within a community, along with their
local resources and talents. Through visitor-community interaction,
respective cultures are explored, ideas and information are
exchanged and new friends are made. Community Tourism fosters
opportunities at the community level for local people to
participate more fully in the tourism industry. These opportunities
range from establishing bed and breakfast accommodation in
a rural home to creating income-generating commercial tourism
opportunities for an entire village.
Individuals
or communities who wish to be involved in the IIPT Community
Tourism Retreat and potential sponsors may contact : IIPT
Community Tourism Secretariat : consec@cct-jamaica.com Danielle
Cunningham Retreat Co-ordinator, Tel.: 876-371-1490.
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IIPT
Again Proud Sponsor of TheTRADEShow
IIPT is proud to again be a sponsor of THETRADESHOW
2008 (Travel Retailing and Destination Expo) being held at the Orange
County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida, September 7-9, 2008.
THETRADESHOW
2008 again provides a major opportunity for IIPT collaboration with
ASTA and its partners in promoting travel throughout the world as a
vital force for international understanding and peace.
Clearly,
the mission of IIPT in "Building a Culture of
Peace through Tourism" has never been
more important. The participation of IIPT and its members
in THETRADESHOW 2008
will encourage other attendees to spread the word throughout the
world that Every traveler is potentially an Ambassador for
Peace. ”It is only through travel and people-to-people encounters
that we can come to realize the full significance of our
inter-connectedness and common future in an ever shrinking Global
Village.”
THETRADESHOW has
more exhibitors, more consumers and more business opportunities than
any other North American event. In just three days, it is possible to
connect with thousands of travel sellers and suppliers from every
segment of the industry —all in one convenient location.
 
THETRADESHOW,
held last year in Las Vegas, brought together more than 5,200 persons
from every segment of the industry. For three days, 3,836 attendees
gathered at the Las Vegas Convention Center for one-on-one business
appointments, travel seminars and exhibits. THETRADESHOW reported
2,405 travel buyers and 1,240 exhibitors having attended, as well
as 413 exhibiting companies (58 percent of which were new to THETRADESHOW), 1,417 consumers and 191 media, non-exhibiting suppliers and guests.
While
the THETRADESHOW
offered agents the chance to meet and network with suppliers, it also
offered suppliers an opportunity to present their products to agents in
new and unique ways, such as The Presentation Pavilions, which hosted
nearly 2,380 people over three days; educational classroom sessions,
which were attended by more than 2,800 people (235 percent more people
than last year) and product seminars, which were attended by more than
933 people, up by 155 percent from last year.
For more information on THETRADESHOW, call 1.866.870.9333 or visit www.THETRADESHOW.org
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Show Your Support with One Earth
One Family
IIPT Plaques and Gift Cards
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IIPT, both items display the IIPT Credo
of the Peaceful Traveler and Art Piece by R. Padre
Johnson. The Credo of the Peaceful Traveler puts forth an ethical travel
philosophy for travelers to abide by. The IIPT Credo of the
Peaceful Traveler was the inspiration of a very special person at the
IIPT First Global Conference: Tourism - A Vital Force for Peace,
Vancouver 1988. We have respected the author's request to remain
annonymous. The IIPT Credo has since spread across the travel and
tourism industry worldwide. |
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The One Earth One Family art piece by
R. Padre Johnson provides a view of our incredible earth from outer
space, surrounded by the open faces of 25 children and adults from
different cultures. Each portrait represents an important visual
statement about the unique and interesting facial difference in each
individual, the culture and ethnicity each represents, and the
limitless threads of common humanity that draws all citizens of our
planet more closely together as one inter-dependent family.
These
items will remind all who see or receive them of what a privilege it is
to travel freely throughout the world and the opportunity they have as
they travel to be ambassadors of international understanding, good will
and peace. These items will be admired and appreciated by everyone who
sees them in your office, place of business or home.
Costs are
$200 (US) plus shipping for an Acrylic Plaque, and $15 (US) plus
shipping for a Gift Card pack of 10 Cards and Envelopes. To
order online or by fax/mail, please visit our website.
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About
IIPT
The
International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) is a not for
profit organization dedicated to fostering travel and tourism
initiatives that contribute to international understanding and
cooperation, an improved quality of environment, the preservation of
heritage, and poverty reduction; and through these initiatives, helping
to bring about a peaceful and sustainable world. It is
founded on a vision of the world’s largest industry, travel
and tourism – becoming the world’s first global
peace industry; and the belief that every traveler is potentially an
“Ambassador for Peace.”
For more information:
IIPT Website:
www.iipt.org
Tel: (802) 253-2658
Fax: (802) 253-2645
Email: info@iipt.org
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