The European Travel Commission (ETC) and the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) would like to invite you to attend the ETC-UNWTO INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON TRANSNATIONAL TOURISM THEMES AND ROUTES on 16th-18th November 2017 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain

This unique event is intended to shed light on the landscape of tourism themes and routes in Europe and worldwide. This occasion will provide an excellent platform to better understand the development, management, and promotion of transnational tourism routes, and will offer practical guidance for DMOs, NTOs and NTAs on how to market and promote destinations through transnational thematic tourism experiences and products. In addition, the event will be the best occasion to officially launch the brand new ETC-UNWTO Handbook on Marketing Transnational Tourism Themes & Routes.

Executive Leadership Development in Heritage Management Workshops

Human Resource Management for Heritage Organizations

22-24 November, 2017

Location: HMO Headquarters, Kimonos 11 & Pagkalou, Elefsina, Greece

This workshop explores the crucial subject of people management in not-for-profit Heritage Organizations. People are simultaneously the largest single item of operating costs and the only source of conservation, service and innovation. They are therefore the key asset in all organizations focused on those objectives and the management of people is a key concern for executives.

Executive Leadership Development in Heritage Management Workshops

Communication Strategy and Strategic Marketing for Cultural Organizations

24-26 October, 2017

Location: HMO Headquarters, Kimonos 11 & Pagkalou, Elefsina, Greece

Today, more than ever, it is critical that strong messages be part of an effective communication strategy for today’s leaders. By focusing more on content, when embracing traditional as well as social media, leaders can more effectively manage and enhance the reputation of their organizations.

Summertime is a time of leisure and escapes from every-day life routine. It is also an excellent opportunity to take pleasure in a variety of cultural festivals. And if you happen to be in Budva, Montenegro during hot summer night of 30 July don’t miss your chance to see one of the best documentary theatre plays produced in SEE region – KoTo(R) o KOTORU

This project started as a community organized need to examine influences of tourism and uncontrolled construction on the UNESCO listed town of Kotor and the surroundings. It was initiated by SEE Heritage member organization EXPEDITIO. The process turned out to be very engaging and important for the citizens involved in it, and under the guidance of the theater director Petar Pejakovic the play was born.

If you have never got a chance to visit breath-taking Mountain landscapes of Albania as well as wonderful sea coast and lakes, now there are two more reasons to do do!

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has inscribed Albania’s Gashi River and Rrajce, two locally protected areas, on the World Heritage. The decision was made in early July 2017 at the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee in Krakow, Poland.

SEE Heritage member 4 GRADA DRAGODID is organizing a workshop about dry stone technique in a beautiful setting of the Nature Park Učka.

Dates: 29/07/2017 – 06/08/2017

The program is designed according to thematic units that include the basics and advanced drywall techniques, the restoration of a straw roof and gathering of stone slates from a small quarry.

Subjects:

1. Basic and advanced drystone wall techniques lessons
2. Reconstruction of a straw roof
3. Gathering of stone slates from a small querry

The practical part will be accompanied by a whole range of professional lectures:

The meeting was organized within the conference Cultural Heritage Counts for South-East Europe. The main organizer and initiator of the conference was Europa Nostra Serbia, followed by support of Europa Nostra and SEE Heritage network.

Since all SEE Heritage member organizations were invited and encouraged to join the conference, the annual meeting of the network for the 2017 conveniently took place in Belgrade too, before the conference.

To read more about the meeting please click here.

Every two years docomomo (the international committee for documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement) organizes an international conference, bringing together docomomo members and friends from its 72 national Working Parties, as an opportunity for in-depth exploration of an important theme or aspect of the Modern Movement.

Transylvania Trust launches at Bánffy Castle, Bonţida (Cluj Co., Romania), two Artists and Craftsmen in Residence programmes for artists, craftsmen, artisans, and creators interested in and preoccupied by the reinterpretation of historical values through contemporary methods. The residence programmes ensure the temporal and spatial conditions for learning and creation in an exceptional historical setting: Bánffy Castle, Bonţida.