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March
CIRET’s Data bases on tourism,leisure,outdoor recreation and hospitality industry
CIRET (Centre International de Recherches et d’Etudes Touristiques) has created on its website http://www.ciret-tourism.com an evolutionary worldwide directory of academic institutions (today 693 in 102 countries) and an evolutionary worldwide directory of individual researchers (today 3,888 in 115 countries) specialised in tourism, leisure, outdoor recreation and hospitality industry. Institutions and individual researchers not yet quoted in the data bases are invited to enter directly and free of charge their informations through the CIRET’s website – Index “Registration Form”. To make easier the accessibility of the international tourism literature to the worldwide scientific community, I have already and personally analysed 141,910 documents – books, journals, reports… – (64,864 when I was Director of the Centre des Hautes Etudes Touristiques of the University of Aix-Marseille – of which I have preserved the legal property of the computerized analysis – and 77,046 since the creation of CIRET in 1997) . These documents are accessible through a thesaurus of more than 1,400 key words and a geographical index. The thesaurus, the geographical index and a model of the analysis of a book and of an article in a journal are found on the CIRET’s website...
CIRET. Data Base. Publicated: 31-03-2008
 
 

Publication of the Proceedings of the International Workshop "Health and Cultural diversity in the World"
The international symposium-workshop entitled Health and Cultural diversity in the World, dedicated to the promotion and preservation of indigenous cultures worldwide, took place in Havana, Cuba, between the 20th and 23rd of November 2006. The event was organized, funded and coordinated by the Foundation of Aid and Promotion of indigenous Cultures (FAPCI), with the support of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), the National Council for Houses of Culture (CNCC), the National Center of Natural and Traditional Medicine (CENAMENT) and the Cuban Bioenergy and Natural Medicine Society (SCMBN) of the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) of Cuba, as well as the Regional Office of Culture for Latin America and the Caribbean of UNESCO in Havana and the Office of UNESCO in Quito.

 

Ecuador wants to promote ancestral sports through UNESCO
The Ecuadorean minister of Sports, Raul Carrión Fiallos, recently appointed as vice-president of the Intergovernmental Committee for Physical education and Sports (CIGEPS) of UNESCO, said that his main work will be the promotion of ancestral sports in the world. "Ecuador has a great cultural diversity and the origin of many ancestral sports that we are promoting and we want to take advantage of that experience to do the same in the world", indicated Carrión in the Paris office of UNESCO.
CRESPIAL. News. Publicated: 11-03-2008

 
 

 

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