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ITB Asia opens in Singapore

Ribbon-cutting official marks start

ITB Asia opens in Singapore

SINGAPORE (eTN) - ITB Asia Singapore opened today at the Suntec Singapore Exhibition & ... read more

Greece has a silver lining - it is called tourism

Greece Economic Collapse

Greece has a silver lining - it is called tourism

By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief

Greece’s ongoing multi-level clashes over its economic woes have caught the world’s ... read more

Report Card: Taleb Rifai on being the UNWTO secretary general

eTn Executive Talk

Report Card: Taleb Rifai on being the UNWTO secretary general

By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief

ETN: You’ve been in office for almost two years, how is it going?

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Libya:  The elephant in the room called ITB Berlin?

Libya Has Got Tourism?

Libya: The elephant in the room called ITB Berlin?

By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief

At the recently-held ITB Berlin, the world’s largest travel exhibition held yearly in Berlin, ... read more

Let there be no doubt, Egypt tourism is back in business

Egypt and Tunisia Revolution to Tourism

Let there be no doubt, Egypt tourism is back in business

By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief

In a rare display of solidarity, the tourism ministers from Egypt and Tunisia were in attendance ... read more

Execs talk about ITB Berlin 2011 experience

World's Largest Travel Exhibition

Execs talk about ITB Berlin 2011 experience

By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief

This year’s edition of ITB Berlin has come and gone, and Messe Berlin, the event’s organizer ... read more

Andorra’s economy minister takes tourism very seriously

Andorra Public Figures

Andorra’s economy minister takes tourism very seriously

By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief

When Andorra’s Minister of Economy, Pere Lopez, showed up at Grand Valira, one of Andorra’s ... read more

Egypt to Tunisia: Thank you for inspiring us

Egypt and Tunisia Revolution to Tourism

Egypt to Tunisia: Thank you for inspiring us

By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief

BERLIN (eTN) – Egypt Tourism Minister Mounir Abdul Nour has expressed his gratitude on behalf ... read more

ITB Berlin:  Go big or go home!

World's Largest Travel Exhibition

ITB Berlin: Go big or go home!

By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief

BERLIN (eTN) - In the game of who can put on the world’s largest travel exhibition in the ... read more

Tourism Stands Ready to Support Egypt

Egypt Crisis

Tourism Stands Ready to Support Egypt

By Taleb Rifai, United Nations World Tourism Organization secretary-general

The United Nations World Tourism Organization is closely monitoring the rapidly evolving ... read more

UNWTO expresses support for high-value, low-impact tourism development in Bhutan

Focus On Sustainability And Quality

UNWTO expresses support for high-value, low-impact tourism development in Bhutan

UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, has expressed his support for the long-term tourism policy ... read more

[Video] UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai on World Tourism Day

Climate Change

[Video] UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai on World Tourism Day

In the video below, Taleb Rifai, who is the current secretary-general of the United Nations ... read more

Beijing: Post Olympics, now and beyond

Beijing Tourism

Beijing: Post Olympics, now and beyond

By Nelson Alcantara

BEIJING, China (eTN) – Hundreds of both high level management, government officials and ... read more

UNWTO secretary general appointed as PolyU adjunct professor

Taleb Rifai Joins Hong Kong Polytechnic University

UNWTO secretary general appointed as PolyU adjunct professor

By eTN Staff Writer

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University bestowed Adjunct Professorship on Dr.

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Setting the scene – the role of film in national identity

Bollywood Hollywood

Setting the scene – the role of film in national identity

By Anita Mendiratta, CNN's TASK Group for eTN

Between the period of October 05th and 08th 2009, government leaders from within the Travel ... read more

Live the deal, UNWTO executive says

Copenhagen Climate Change Update

Live the deal, UNWTO executive says

By Nelson Alcantara, eTN

eTN: How are you, Geoffrey? How is Copenhagen?
Geoffrey Lipman: I ... read more

Nigerian honored by UNWTO for “World Tourism Day” vision

World Tourism Day

Nigerian honored by UNWTO for “World Tourism Day” vision

By travelafricanews.com

Following a final push by a letter written by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Tourism, Culture ... read more

Nigeria raps UNWTO over its tourism pioneer who initiated “World Tourism Day”

Nigeria News: World Tourism Day

Nigeria raps UNWTO over its tourism pioneer who initiated “World Tourism Day”

By Lucky Onofrio George, eTN Africa Ambassador

The Nigeria’s Ministry of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation has said it has written to ... read more

Jakarta tourism recovering rapidly after terror attacks, UNWTO says

Jakarta Tourism

Jakarta tourism recovering rapidly after terror attacks, UNWTO says

By Nelson Alcantara

The United Nations World Tourism Organization has said that the tragic bomb attacks that took ... read more

New UNWTO secretary-general a.i. to join panel for Tourism Society debate

Taleb Rifai

New UNWTO secretary-general a.i. to join panel for Tourism Society debate

By eTN Staff Writer

The Tourism Society is delighted to announce that UNWTO secretary-general ad interim, Taleb ... read more

ST-EP:  A big misstep for UNWTO?

Sustainable Tourism-Eliminating Poverty

ST-EP: A big misstep for UNWTO?

By Nelson Alcantara

United Nations World Tourism Organization affiliated offices (Osaka and Korea) were recently ... read more

Re-engineering UNWTO is the way forward, Rifai says

Global Tourism

Re-engineering UNWTO is the way forward, Rifai says

By Nelson Alcantara

Taleb Rifai is the ad interim secretary general of the United Nations World Tourism ... read more

UNWTO executive council elects the right person for SG post

United Nations World Tourism Organization

UNWTO executive council elects the right person for SG post

By Nelson Alcantara

Sources from Bamako, Mali, where the ongoing executive council meeting of the United Nations ... read more

Who is UNWTO’s next secretary general?

United Nations World Tourism Organization

Who is UNWTO’s next secretary general?

By Nelson Alcantara

Most within the UNWTO circle and the media that follows the organization’s actions would ... read more

Frangialli to finally step down as UN tourism chief

UNWTO

Frangialli to finally step down as UN tourism chief

By Nelson Alcantara

The United Nations World Tourism Organization secretary-general Francesco Frangialli has ... read more

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