Athens Acropolis becomes more accessible to all
Video by Onassis Foundation, benefactor of the new lift and pathways.
Read the Hellenic Ministry of Culture Press release, 3rd December 2020 at the ENAT news page.
All results
Webinar
Successful joint workshop of 3 Horizon 2020 projects SPOT, SmartCulTour and IMPACTOUR, to imagine Cultural Tourism in 5 years time, and foresee its potentials and threats. 50 attendees discussed key topics from sustainability through quality and accessibility aspects to innovation and community involvement.
Webinar
Thursday, 26 November 2020, Webinar.
ENAT together with Accessible Portugal and Belarusian State University invites you to a webinar from 14.00 to 16.00 (Europe/Minsk, UTC+3 (GMT+3)).
The participants will share best practices in training and research that stimulates accessibility in tourism.
The webinar is free of charge.
Translation between English and Belarusian.
You can join at the following Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82513569276
Note the Webinar start and finishing times across Europe:
14.00 to 16.00 (Minsk/Belarus)
13.00 to 15.00 (Athens/Greece, Vilnius/Lithuania)
12.00 to 14.00 (Brussels/Belgium, Paris/France, Rome/Italy, Madrid/Spain)
11.00 to 13.00 (Lisbon/Portugal, Dublin/Ireland, London/UK)
Programme
14.00 – 14.10 – Opening of the webinar (Europe/Minsk, UTC+3 (GMT+3))
Dr. Victor Shadurski, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of International Relations, Belarusian State University.
Dr. Anatoly Beifert, Team Leader, MOST Programme, Belarus.
14.10 – 14.30 – Annagrazia Laura, President of ENAT and Ivor Ambrose, Managing Director of ENAT.
Introduction to ENAT and Accessible Tourism.
14.30 – 14.50 - Emiliano Deferrari, Seconder to the President of ENAT, Project Manager
Experience of ERASMUS+ projects.
14.50 – 15.00 - Vaida Sinkevičienė, Expert for the project management and quality assurance, Panevėžys Labour Market Vocational Training Centre, Lithuania.
Project “The Ability Advisor: improving the tourism for all market”
15.00 – 15.20 – Helena Ribeiro, Turismo de Portugal, Ana Garcia, President of Accessible Portugal.
Portuguese experience in training and the national ALL FOR ALL accessible tourism programme.
15.20 - 15.40 – Natallia Barysenka-Klepach, Senior Lecturer, International Tourism Department, Belarusian State University.
Experience of Belarusian State University in accessible tourism training and research.
15.40 – 16.00 – Round Table: questions and answers session. Closing remarks.
Files
Programme of the webinar335.97 KB
Online Event
2nd TUR4all Congress: Accessibility at Smart Tourism Destinations
20 webinars on Accessibility and Tourist Intelligence, in English and Spanish (simultaneous translation, with sub-titles).
This exceptional event is organised by PREDIF, Spain, with Generalitat Valenciana, Turisme Comunitat Valenciana and Partners, including Spanish Secretary of State for Tourism, ENAT, SEGITTUR, ISTO, Foundacion ONCE, ISTO, Accessible Portugal and others.
More information and Sign-up page at the Congress Website.
- Over 1000 registered participants!
- With 80 acclaimed speakers from 16 countries from public, private and NGOs sectors.
- List of speakers
IMPACTOUR features in the programme on Friday 27th November at 14.00 CET with a presentation by Ivor Ambrose, Managing Director, ENAT in the session: Accessibility Best Practices in Cultural and Natural Heritage.
Looking forward to meet you online!
The event will consist of 6 webinars per week, over four weeks each one lasting 90 minutes. Webinars start on 9 November and continue through to 30 November, with two daily sessions, each Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
First webinar sessions: Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 12:30 to 14:00 h (Madrid), 13:30 h (Athens), 5:30 am (Ciudad de Mexico), 6:30 am (Montréal), 7:30 am (Buenos Aires / Santiago de Chile)
Second webinar sessions: Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 14:00 to 15:30 h (Madrid), 15:00 h (Athens), 7:00 am (Ciudad de México), 8:00 am (Montréal), 9:00 am (Buenos Aires / Santiago de Chile)
Download the Congress Programme, below.
Files
Congress Programme (in English)360.6 KB
Online Event via Zoom
1st International Workshop on Cultural Tourism: Discovery Europe
#EuroMed2020_DCH #ERA_CHAIR_Mnemosyne @UNESCO_DCH
Workshop 4 - This webinar will be online via ZOOM on the 4th of November 2020.
Registration is mandatory for all, free participation.
http://www.euromed2020.eu/workshops (4th workshop)
Currently, due to COVID-19, the tourism industry is facing key economic and social challenges. The pandemic managed to bring global tourism to a standstill, thousands of persons are unemployed and millions of people in quarantine have been seeking out cultural and travel experiences from their homes.
Culture has proven indispensable during this period, and the demand for virtual access to museums, heritage sites, theatres and performances has reached unprecedented levels.
The Discovery Europe Workshop will give the opportunity to showcase local identity as a competitive advantage of the EU Member States, as far as sustainable tourism development is concerned, as well as boost networking among the participants, the exchange of best practices, knowledge and experience on this specific topic.
Despite all the challenges, the tourism and culture sectors are facing an opportunity to create new partnerships and collaboration. They are bound to jointly reinvent and diversify the offer, attract new audiences, develop new skills and support the world’s transition to the new conditions. Therefore, it is an opportunity to promote sustainable and hybrid tourism driven by new practices and innovations which promote lifelong learning. It is the time and the challenge to reinvent ourselves with a vision to build a better tomorrow.
The Discovery Europe workshop will focus on the following important aspects:
- Improve information and data exchange between individuals, experts, stakeholder and sectors,
- Improve networking among local, regional and international organizations and launch innovative alliances,
- Form a more resilient tourism and culture workforce,
- Strengthen policy and governance structures for better coordination, awareness and information sharing,
- Attract new audiences.
Among our speakers we have:
- Peter DeBrine, UNESCO - Programme Specialist Sustainable Tourism (https://whc.unesco.org/en/whoswho/130908)
- Stefano Dominioni, Director at European Institute of Cultural Routes, Council of Europe (https://www.coe.int/en/web/cultural-routes)
- Ann Uustalu, Policy Officer with focus on Cultural Heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries, European Commission, DG for Research and Innovation.
- Rodrigo Martín Galán, Research Programme Officer at the European Research Executive Agency (REA) in charge of the portfolio on Cultural Heritage
- Sneska Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic, EUROPA NOSTRA, Secretary General
- Celia Martinez Yáñez, Prof. University of Granada and VP of ICOMOS ICTC: International committee on Cultural Tourism
- Lorenzo Cantoni, Prof. Università della Svizzera Italiana, UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in the World Heritage Sites (https://www.unescochair.usi.ch/about-us/chair-holder)
- João Martins, Prof. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Coordinator of the H2020 project IMPACTOUR (https://www.impactour.eu/) and upcoming H2020 project TExTOUR
- Milada Šťastná, Prof. Dr. Ing. and HoD, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. Coordinator of the H2020 project SPOT (http://www.spotprojecth2020.eu/)
- Simona Todelli, Prof. University of Bologna. Coordinator of the H2020 project RURITAGE (https://www.ruritage.eu/)
- Susanna Markkola, Manager, Cultural Tourism at Business, Finland
- Theanos S. Terkenli, Prof. University of the Aegean, Greece
- Claire Wallace, Prof. University of Aberdeen, UK (https://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/profiles/claire.wallace)
- Karmen Novarlic, Head of Department Business Communication at Slovenian Tourist Board (https://www.wef.org.in/karmen-novarlic/)
Μore speakers to be announced soon.
Free of charge registration to the Discovery Europe Workshop.
Themes
Heritage Tourism
Ros Kerslake, Chief Executive of The National Lottery Heritage Fund, has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to Heritage.
Ros Kerslake said: “I am very grateful for this award. It comes at a time when heritage is facing the greatest challenge in my lifetime, and I would like to pay testament to everyone in the heritage sector, and in particular my colleagues at the National Lottery Heritage Fund, who have worked so hard to respond quickly and effectively to the COVID-19 crisis, ensuring that important heritage is saved for future generations.
“Investing in heritage is hugely important – it creates jobs, supports wellbeing, tourism and local economies and makes our towns, cities and rural areas better places to live. It’s a great honour to work in a sector that makes such a positive difference to people’s lives.
“In May I returned to work following six months of treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. After a speedy diagnosis and excellent medical care from NHS staff at The Royal Marsden, I am thankfully now cancer free. Having faced these considerable challenges, this honour is a lovely reason to celebrate and feel positive about the future.”
During Ros’s time at The National Lottery Heritage Fund she has overseen more than £1bn of National Lottery funding awards to the UK heritage sector, including for Paisley Museum, Hull Maritime City, The Fitted Rigging House at Chatham Historic Dockyard, Bevis Marks Synagogue, Templemore Baths in Belfast, and the National Broadcast Archive for Wales. She has also led the transformation of The National Lottery Heritage Fund, strengthening its leadership role and innovation, and bringing in a new five-year Strategic Funding Framework.
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, The National Lottery Heritage Fund launched a £50m Heritage Emergency Fund, awarding grants to 950 organisations across the UK affected by the crisis. Ros has also overseen the distribution of substantial Government funding to support organisations through the crisis – the £92m Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage and the £40m Green Recovery Challenge Fund, to support the nature and environmental sector.
Further information about Ros Kerslake
Prof. Joao Martins, coordinator of the IMPACTOUR H2020 project remarked:
"Ros Kerslake is currently one of the IMPACTOUR’s Advisory Board Members, whose contributions have been extremely helpful and of upmost importance to our work. On behalf of IMPACTOUR consortium we congratule our colleague Ros for this well deserved recognition and continue to enhance our ongoing collaboration.
https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/news/ros-kerslake-awarded-cbe-queens-birthday-honours
Online Event
European Tourism Convention
Online Event: 12th October 2020
Following nine consecutive years of growth, the EU tourism ecosystem is among the hardest hit by the global COVID-19 pandemic affecting Europe since early 2020.
The European Commission is organising the European Tourism Convention which will launch a dialogue on sustainable recovery and the strategic orientations for the tourism of tomorrow and guide future work and cooperation on tourism (towards a European Agenda for Tourism 2050).
In the framework of the European Tourism Convention, the European Commission will organise three on-line thematic workshops, which will be held in parallel in the morning of 12th October:
- Safe and Seamless Tourism Experience
- Greener Holidays
- Tourism Powered by Data
The aim of the workshops is to map key issues, generate a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of the EU tourism sector linked with the three topics mentioned above and propose a set of SMART action points to be presented and discussed during the Plenary of the European Tourism Convention in the afternoon.
Each workshop will gather up to 30 participants, including representatives of the EU institutions, representatives of public authorities, European sectorial industry associations of the tourism and travel industry, international organisations, academics, as well as other relevant stakeholders. Places are limited and, following the Open Call for Proposals, (closed 17th September) the selected participants will have a unique chance to guide the future work on tourism recovery and transition.
IMPACTOUR partners, ENAT and EUROPA NOSTRA will be speaking in Workshops 1 and 2.
Further information, Agenda and Registration
Visit the European Tourism Convention website
