Livingstone International University Receives
The International Star for Leadership in Quality Award recognizes the success of those organizations and institutions who strive to improve institutional quality and who pledge to serve as an example within their community. The BID International Star for Leadership in Quality Convention was held in Paris, with the 2012 presentation of awards given to organizations from 57 countries around the world for achievements in quality and excellence. Livingstone International University of Tourism Excellence and Business Management (LIUTEBM) received the International Star for Quality in Leadership Award in the Gold Category, recognizing it for commitment to quality, leadership, technology, and innovation represent outstanding international achievement for Zambia.
- participation and teamwork in decision making. - Meeting the needs and expectation of our students. - Providing human, technical and economic resources to achieve continuous improvement - Respect for the environment. - Managing resources to achieve the maximum potential of our students.
About LIUTEBM Our mission is "to provide highly specialized and quality knowledge, skills, competencies and institutional capacities so as to bring about the promotion and development of the tourism industry and allied services in Africa and enhance its contribution to the desired sustainable development of all countries in our service area". The primary goal of LIUTEBM is to ensure that its graduates acquire the necessary confidence, knowledge, skills and professional acumen to make a contribution to their profession and to society. |
Olympic Youth Peace Ambassador Training Program Now in Place for 31 August – to 9 September
Gordon Sillence, coordinator of the UNESCO-backed ‘Olympic Youth Peace Ambassadors Training Program has announced that the program is now in place and scheduled from 31 August to 9 September.
The Program brings together youth from countries throughout the world including conflict zones and areas suffering violence to the London Olympics to highlight the six weeks of Global Truce unanimously backed by all UN member countries to run from 25 July to 9 September. While in the UK the youth will undergo an intense 10 day workshop program preparing them as Olympic youth peace ambassadors. After the Olympics they will continue the work of peace-making in their respective countries as part of UNESCO’s Youth Peace Ambassador Network thereby providing a lasting legacy of the 2012 Olympic Truce campaign.
Contact: GORDON.DESTINET@ECOTRANS.DE
Support is still urgently needed to cover transport, food and accommodation costs, and an appeal to meet an estimated £25,000 short fall in the budget has been launched. Countries, companies and individuals are asked to come forward as sponsors at this 11th hour. Needed are: support for travel costs –participation from airline/travel/transport companies would be particularly helpful; support for accommodation, food and beverage – members of the hospitality industry/event industry; and media support – to film this event and mainstream the message.
Please contact gordon.destinet@ecotrans.de or phone him on 00351 912373124 to discuss your offer of support.
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IIPT Caribbean Chapter Instrumental in IIPT Caribbean Chapter President, and President of Countrystyle Community Tourism Network (CCTN) Diana McIntyre Pike has been instrumental in the organization of a major initiative that will benefit nine communities from six parishes across Jamaica in partnership with the National Best Community Foundation (NBCF) with grant funding from the Jamaica Social Investment Fund/Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI) project. The Agreement is for the implementation of a community-based Tourism Strengthening and Promotion project that started up this past month.
Signing the Agreement were from the left: the Chief Executive Officer of the National Best Community Foundation (NBCF), Jacqueline Dacosta; Project Manager, Rural Economic Development Initiative (REDI), at the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Stephanie Hutchinson-Ffrench; IIPT Caribbean and CCTN President, Diana McIntyre-Pike; and Parish Manager of the Social Development Commission (SDC), Westmoreland, Ron Daley. The signing took place in one of the beneficiary communities, Beeston Spring, Westmoreland. According to Mrs. Hutchinson-Ffrench, the project is one that will not only make a significant contribution to Jamaica’s tourism product, but will also impact the economic prospects of all nine beneficiary communities. The communities are Lancaster and Resource, in Manchester; Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth; Albert Town, Trelawny; Charles Town, Portland; Hopewell and Axe-And-Adze, Hanover; and Bluefields and Beeston Spring, Westmoreland. The goal of the project is in keeping with the Government of Jamaica’s draft community based tourism policy, which seeks to implement strategies to assist communities that offer a community based tourism product, to move from start-up to market ready. More than 200 persons will be benefiting directly from the project, while there will also be indirect economic and social spin-offs accruing to the wider communities involved. The project will involve the following activities: (1) An assessment of gaps and areas of opportunity for each community. (2) Team Jamaica training for approximately 120 persons engaged in providing a tourism service or product. (3) A comprehensive community tourism sensitisation programme. (4) Conducting familiarisation tours with ground tour operators to experience the tourism product first hand, with a view that they will include the nine communities in the packages they sell. (5) The production of promotional material and erection of directional and community signs. Minister of State with responsibility for Special Projects in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Luther Buchanan, who also spoke at the signing, argued that it would be very beneficial to the nation if more communities get involved in community oriented projects, as this would bring back a sense of pride, as it relates to community development and the upliftment of persons. “Until we have developed the human capital that we have, we will never truly develop communities,” he said. He lauded each of the organizations for the work that they have been doing in communities across Jamaica.
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IIPT to Partner in Art Beyond Borders Exhibit
IIPT is a proud partner in the Art Beyond Borders Exhibit scheduled for next April in Las Vegas. Projected audience for the 4 day exhibit is 70,000 and extensive media coverage is anticipated.
The exhibit is planned as an annual event in Las Vegas and China premiering the world’s first global open art competition and award show with the largest prizes cash prizes in history and the most engaging public platform. More than US$ 1 million will be awarded to competing artists and an additional US$ 500,000 will be provided in scholarships and grants. More than 60 nations are anticipated to participate and attend the exhibit.
The 2013 Las Vegas Art Beyond Borders Exhibit being held at the Sands Convention Center will feature:
The Exhibit will also feature unveiling of the Peace Monument Model paying tribute to those whose vision and commitment have impacted our world and focusing attention on humanity’s common creative spirit.
Persons and organizations wishing to be acknowledged as sponsors of the event are invited to contact: Edward Solomon Office - 949.494.7064 Mobile – 949.295.5894 Email – edsolomon@timotca.org www.timotca.org |
Meeting the Challenges of Climate Change to Tourism: Industry officials, experts, academics and practitioners share their knowledge, experience, research and methods of best practice to address and adapt to the adverse effects of climate change Edited by Louis D’Amore and Dr. Patrick Kalifungwa
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IIPT World Peace Tours
Travel Agents Travel Agents please note that tours are commissionable – please contact Louis D’Amore, Email: ljd@iipt.org
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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: |
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The exhibit is being organized by The International Museum of Twenty First Century Art (TIMOTCA) as part of its “Peace through Art" mission. TIMOTCA’s Vision is premised on the belief that, transcending national borders, inter-cultural differences and racial distinctions, art, in all its forms, uniquely expands our potential to move beyond historic fears toward peaceful co-creation. TIMOTCA’s Vision is to bring all the nations of the world and as many cultures as possible together in one unprecedented global project.
Celebrating the world’s amazingly diverse cultures, TIMOTCA is providing a venue for artists from every corner of the globe – a “United Nations of the Arts” - offering an unprecedented platform and a forum for the development of international programs promoting cultural understanding and peace.
