EHL Students Offer Strategies for UNWTO Silk Road Project

Theodore Slate -
At the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL)/UNWTO Silk Road Think Tank, 170 future hospitality leaders presented innovative strategies for how ten UNWTO Member States can maximize their positioning as Si ...

2012 World Competitiveness Rankings Revealed by IMD

Dan Rang -
Lausanne, Switzerland – IMD business school, a Switzerland based global leader in executive education, has released the results of its yearly World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY). Countries are evalua ...

New Zealands's Natural Heritage Threatened by 20 Years of Environmental Inaction

William Law -
Wellington, New Zealand - Less than a month before world leaders meet at a major environmental summit, a new report warns that New Zealand is failing to protect some of its iconic species and habitats ...

Visa Facilitation Can Create Five Million Additional Jobs in G20 Economies

Laura Maudlin -
Visa facilitation is central to stimulating economic growth and job creation through tourism. The G20 can have a particularly important role to play in this respect. G20 economies could boost their in ...

Tourism and the Media Join Forces to Support the Sector in Challenging Times

Pat Hyland -
The two-day meeting, Partnering with the Media in Challenging Times, is the second in UNWTO’s series of conferences on the relationship between tourism and the media. Organized in collaboration with t ...