Calendar of Events as of January 2020 21 Gala Dinner FITUR FITUR, Madrid, Spain 01 21 Final of the Second Global Startup Competition FITUR, Madrid, Spain 22 Launch of the UNWTO Global Tourism Dashboard FITUR, Madrid, Spain 21-24 UNWTO Activities in FITUR FITUR, Madrid, Spain 24 Committee on Tourism and Competitiveness FITUR, Madrid, Spain 24 50th Meeting of the Board of the Affiliate Members FITUR, Madrid, Spain 02 27-28 Conference on Tourism and Accessibility Ecuador 3 – 8 ITB Berlin Berlin, Germany UNWTO Tourism Tech Adventure & TBC Qatar 03 Sports Tourism Startup Competition 11-13 XI World Congress on Snow and Mountain Tourism Andorra la Vella, Andorra 46th meeting of the Regional Commission for 15-16 Neon, Saudi Arabia the Middle East Tourism Tech Adventure 17-18 Round Table: “Private Sector Partnership” with Chameleon Strategies Thailand 32nd joint meeting of the Regional Commissions for 18-21 Sri Lanka Asia Pacific and South Asia 25-27 63rd meeting of the Regional Commission for Africa Seychelles 19 - 22 Arabian Travel Market Dubai UNWTO Tourism Tech Adventure & National Tourism Startup TBC Brazil 04 Competition 14th UNWTO Asia-Pacific Executive Training Programme on Tourism TBC Siem Reap, Cambodia Policy and Strategy Xcaret, Riviera Maya, 30 – 1/05 UNWTO Conference on Tourism and the Audiovisual Industry Mexico Calendar of Events as of January 2020 TBC International Conference on Tourism for Development Pyongyang, DPRK 05 6-8 International Symposium on Mature Destinations Palma de Mallorca, Spain 11-13 Rural Tourism Development Forum Minsk, Belarus 21-22 UNWTO World Congress on Sports Tourism Barcelona, Spain 65th meeting of the Regional Commission for the Americas Global 28-29 (tbc) Jamaica Summit on Innovation, Resilience and Crisis Management 112th session of the Executive Council & TBC Tbilisi, Georgia UNWTO Investments Forum 06 TBC UNWTO Tourism Tech Adventure: Music Colombia TBC UNWTO Tourism Tech Adventure & Startup Competition Portugal 6th UNWTO World Forum on Gastronomy Tourism 1-3 Bruges, Belgium Gastronomy Tourism Startup Competition 65th meeting of the Regional Commission for Europe & 22-24 Uzbekistan EBRD Conference TBC 113th session of the Executive Council TBC 09 MERCOSUR (Argentina, 27 World Tourism Day: “Tourism and Rural Development” Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) 9-10 10th G20 Tourism Ministers Meeting Saudi Arabia 5th UNWTO Global Conference on Wine Tourism 15-18 Alentejo, Portugal 10 “Tourism Tech Adventures and Startups Competition” 20 EXPO 2020 Dubai 42nd UNWTO Affiliate Members Plenary Session and 51st Meeting Madrid, Spain or Durban, TBC of the Board of the Affiliate Members South Africa (tbc) 11 TBC International Conference on Ecotourism and Rural Tourism Iran 5 - 7 UNWTO & WTM Ministers’ Summit WTM, London, UK.