Celebrate World Tourism Day in Sydney
The International Institute Peace through Tourism, Australia Travel and Tourism Professional and Intrepid Travel have joined forces to celebrate World Tourism Day on Thursday 27 September with two key speakers providing first hand knowledge of two of the world’s most undiscovered destinations, East Timor or Timor Leste and Sri Lanka.
World Tourism Day is designated by the World Tourism Organisation with the main purpose of fostering awareness of the importance of tourism and its social, cultural, political and economic values and this year’s host country is Sri Lanka with the theme is ‘Tourism Opens Doors for Women.’
The organisers say that everyone is welcome including, travel industry, colleagues and travellers and the details are: –
Date: Thursday 27 September 2007
Time: 6.00pm
Cost: Free
Venue: Intrepid Travel Store, 84 Oxford Street (opp. Paddington Barracks), Paddington, Sydney.
The Speakers are: –
** Nimalan Karthikeyan, Senior Consultant Post Conflict Transition and Commonwealth scholar, University of Sydney.
Subject: Update on Sri Lanka
** Jane Crouch, Responsible Travel Manager, Intrepid Travel.
Subject: Experiences as Personal Assistant to the First Lady of Timor-Leste, Kirsty Sword Gusmao.
Bookings: www.intrepidtravel.com/events – you should look at this site if only to see the fantastic event and informetion programme that Intrepid organises!
Further information: Daphne Lowe Kelley, Tel/Fax: 02 9719 3080
Email: [email protected]
Be there!
Report by The Mole
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