World Tourism Day, designated by the World Tourism Organisation for the main purpose of fostering awareness of the importance of tourism and its social, cultural, political and economic value, is being celebrated in Sydney this Thursday with free event you are all welcome to attend.
This year’s host country is Sri Lanka and the theme is ‘Tourism Opens Doors for Women.’
The International Institute of Peace through Tourism is organising the event and Daphne Lowe–Kelley of IIPT says that everyone, travel industry, colleagues, students and travellers, are most welcome on the very important day for world tourism.
The details are: –
Date: Thursday 27 September 2007
Time: 6.00pm
Venue:
Intrepid Travel Store, 84 Oxford Street (opp. Paddington Barracks), Paddington (Sydney).
Speakers:
Nimalan Karthikeyan, Senior consultant post conflict transition and Commonwealth scholar, University of Sydney – ‘Update on Sri Lanka’
Jane Crouch, Responsible Travel Manager, Intrepid Travel – ‘Experiences as Personal Assistant to the First Lady of Timor-Leste, Kirsty Sword Gusmao’
Bookings: www.intrepidtravel.com/events
Refreshments: will be served.
An informal dinner at your own cost will follow at a local restaurant.
Further information:
Daphne Lowe Kelley
Tel/Fax: 02 9719 3080
Email: [email protected]
Report by The Mole
