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QUEBEC CITY, Canada -- Baha'i holy places in Israel, the Monarch butterfly biosphere reserve of Mexico, and the historic center of Camaguey, a Spanish colonial town in Cuba first settled in 1528, are among the new sites added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee met in July in Quebec City to add the 19 cultural sites and eight natural sites to the list, which now numbers 878 sites in 145 countries. Detailed information about each site is available at whc.unesco.org/en/news/453.
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Cultural heritage sites are important tourist attractions for many tourism-oriented countries worldwide. As for Sarawak in Borneo, the traditional longhouses have been one of the key selling points of the in-bound tour operators nationwide and worldwide. Many tourists go to Sarawak to gain the unique experiences with these longhouses. This paper presents the findings of a survey which aimed to identify the dimensions of tourist satisfaction on the longhouses in Sarawak. Structured questionnaires were distributed to the visitors to gauge their perceptions towards the longhouses that they recently visited. The findings from 280 usable questionnaires show that the tourist satisfaction dimensions include the travel services, access, nature, safety, the longhouses' facilities, cleanliness, f...
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International photo exhibition of 77 works chronicles preservation efforts of endangered cultural heritage sites in developing countries. WASHINGTON, March 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Meridian International Center and California-based Global Heritage Fund announce the opening of an international photographic exhibition, Preservation by Design: Safeguarding the World's Cultural Heritage on Saturday, March 20, 2010. The 77 images, which have never been seen by the general public, contain works by talented local photographers living in or near archaeological and cultural sites in China, Colombia, India, Peru, and Turkey. Photographs from Cambodia and Libya, drawn from the Global Heritage Fund archives, were taken by GHF field staff intimately familiar with these locales and the difficult...
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Fair World Project Joins Together with Canaan Fair Trade and Run Across Palestine to Offer One of a Kind Fair Trade Tour of Palestine PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fair World Project (FWP), Canaan Fair Trade and Run Across Palestine (RAP) are joining together to produce the Taste of Palestine Tour from Feb. 3rd to 13th, 2012. The tour will provide a unique opportunity to learn from Palestinian farmers, workers, and their families and highlight the emerging world of fair trade in the region. In addition to experiencing the reality of Palestinian farmers and producers, tour participants will share in the richness of Palestine's cultural and religious heritage. Tour participants will visit historic sites as well as off-the-beaten-track places and experience the ho...
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ORADELL -- Elected officials and community members gathered at one of the county's most threatened historical sites to celebrate the region's cultural heritage and highlight the need for preservation. It takes many, many people to raise a child," organizer Maggie Harrer said. "It takes twice as many people to preserve a building.
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If Maryland history interests you, the county's largest historic district is throwing a whale of a party this weekend. The third annual Maryland Day Celebration 2010 continues today and tomorrow, and museums, cultural sites, National Historic Landmarks, vintage homes, organizations and conservation groups in the Four Rivers Heritage Area will open their doors.
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Downtown gave a green light Thursday to a cultural tourism project connecting Memphis music heritage sites with Mississippi's Blues Highway. The Downtown Memphis Commission approved a resolution asking the City Council to approve the honorific Highway 61 Blues Trail designation for U.S. 61 and Third Street from the Magnolia State line to Interstate 40 Downtown.
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So as Motown artists like Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson, the Supremes, the Four Tops, the Jackson 5 and many others spread their tentacles across the globe, wooing millions of fans, the mark of Detroit as the root of their start was ever present. That is why as hundreds of people, including Motown alumni, gather this weekend at the Detroit Marriott Renaisance Hotel in downtown Detroit to celebrate the golden jubilee of the birth of this entertainment era called Motown, Detroiters must seize this opportunity to ponder where to go from here. Watch senior editor [Bankole Thompson]'s weekly show, "Center Stage," on WADL TV 38, Saturdays at 1 p.m. This Saturday's propram, Nov 21, will feature a special tribute to Moto...
... era in history that defined Detroit's cultural and entertainment legacy, and placed the Motor Cit... as being among the best historical sites to visit for those who are seeking a global perspe... and Cultural Organization) World Heritage Sites. That designation as a global heritage site ...
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A town couple's $1 million gift will help fuel an international effort to build a visitor center at the site of Treblinka, one of the most notorious of Hitler's Nazi death camps in Poland. Karen Pritzker and Michael Vlock, through their family foundation, made the pledge in response to a request from the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, a federal agency that Congress created in 1985 to work with governments in Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet Union to protect and preserve sites associated with the cultural heritage of American citizens.
