Charlotte Hermans
Objet: Info BITS April 2010
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April 2010
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Edito AGENDA Dear friends, 20-22/05 Tunis, Tunisia The last BITS Board of Directors has allowed us to Marché méditerranéen take an important step in the future orientation of our international du tourisme organization.The meeting was organized on behalf of the General Commissariat of Tourism of the Walloon 23-28/05 Region and allowed the administrators to meet the Shenzen, China Walloon Minister of Tourism... Read more Conference - International
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BITS news 27-29/05 BITS Board of Directors in Namur Falsterbo, Sweden The BITS Board of Directors, who met in Namur last March 31st approved, Competitiveness for European with some amendments, the proposals of the Executive committee concerning Tourism for All - CETA the statutory modifications, the thematic for the Congress as well as the International Conference creation of a platform for research and training. More... 27-28/05 Mexique D.F., Mexico World Congress of Social Tourism 2010 XI Encuentro de la Red de un The next BITS World Congress of Social Tourism will take place from the 19th Turismo para Todos to the 23rd of September 2010 in Rimini, located in the Emilia-Romagna Region in Italy. This event will also mark an important step in the history and 31/05-02/06 future of BITS... Angers, France More... Les Rendez-Vous Champlain sur le tourisme Meeting Coordination Committee CETS The Coordination Committee of the European Section of BITS met in Brussels 10-11/06 last February 16th. Among other things, the Committee agreed on several Palma de Mallorca, Spain proposals to be made to the European Commission for the second year of the Final Conference 1st Year of Calypso project. Calypso More... 11-13/06 Social Tourism in the Americas Chambery, France A research project of the Research Alliance for Universities, Communi ties 1er Forum national du and Social Economy (ARUC-ES) determining the state of social tourism in the tourisme responsable < br /> Americas is currently ongoing. The study is carried out in1 collaboration with 28/08-02/09 the BITS Americas Secretariat and the UQAM. Chuncheon, Corea More... World Leisure Congress
Meeting of the Network in Palma de Mallorca 19-23/09 The Network of Local and Regional authorities will meet in Palma de Mallorca Rimini, Italy on the occasion of the Calypso Conference to assess the role that the World Congress of Social authorities can play within the framework of Calypso and to inform the Tourism members of recent BITS' initiatives... More... HOLIDAYS FOR ALL
New Communication Tools! During the last couple of months BITS has been putting a lot of effort into different tools and possibilities to improve communication with its members and partners and to stimulate the exchange of information and news between the members. More...
New BITS Members On the occasion of its meeting in Namur on the 31st of March 2010, the BITS'
Board of Directors approved 5 new members hip applications by the following
organizations...
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Sector news Trends of International Tourism The World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) published its latest Barometer on trends of International Tourism. The results show that, in 2009, there was a negative growth for all regions of the world... More...
Conference on EU tourism Organized under the Spanish Presidency of the European Union, the Conference of Madrid which gathered the stakeholders of the tourism industry on April 14-15 accorded an important place to the question of the access to holidays for all. More...
Member news 11th Meeting of National Network for "Tourism for All" Within the framework of its programme «Touri sm for All», SECTUR organizes its next "Meeting of the National Network on Social Tourism" on the 27nd and 28th of May 2010. More...
AICS promotes outdoor tourism! AICS has created a specific section dedicated to open air tourism within its activities of social tourism, and set up a task force to investigate various types of outdoor tourism in Italy. More...
El Velah, an NGO active in solidarity-based tourism El Velah, a Mauritian NGO organises, every year a 7 day tourist circuit that allows visiting oases, local women cooperatives an d nomadic groupings in the Adrar Desert. More...
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