Museum of the World Ocean invites you to take part in the International Theoretical and Practical Conference devoted to issues of study and preservation of maritime heritage and museum’s 25th anniversary. The conferences, organized by Museum of the World Ocean, bring museum and scientific communities closer to the phenomenon of maritime heritage and reveal problematic issues in the study and ...
The oldest tourist destination is the city, whose aim was at the beginning welcome travelers of religious pilgrimage.
Other activities of this type were identified with significant milestones and trade routes, which were the initial basis and created a hosting infrastructure and food -inns, guest houses, taverns- both populations, villas or destination cities, as in the different points ...
1st Regional Conference of the OWHC’s Regional Secretariat for Asia-Pacific
24-Sep-2014 - 26-Sep-2014
Marc de Montalembert Foundation offers a 7000 euros grant, application form request deadline
24-Sep-2014 - 15-Nov-2014
[in French only] Le XIVème congrès international sur la pierre sèche « Maroc carrefour euro-africain de la pierre sèche » se tiendra du 22 au 24 septembre 2014 à El Jadida, au Maroc.
Il est organisé par la Société scientifique internationale pour l’étude pluridisciplinaire de la pierre sèche ...
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre in Paris and the UNESCO Office in Kathmandu in close collaboration with the Department of Archaeology, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation of Nepal is organizing a two-day workshop financed under the Korean project “Support for the preparation for the World Heritage Serial Nomination of the Silk Roads in South Asia”, on 23 and 24 September 2014 in ...
1st UNWTO International Congress on Tourism and Pilgrimages
18-Sep-2014 - 20-Sep-2014
EU and UNESCO join forces for the natural and cultural heritage of the transboundary Lake Ohrid region
15-Sep-2014 - 16-Sep-2014
UNESCO Chair Program on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management: International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2014
Recent disasters in North East of Japan and Christchurch in New Zealand as well as destructive earthquakes that hit Haiti and Chile in 2010 have caused enormous loss of life, property and cultural heritage. This disaster has once again shown ...
International Archaeology Day: Call for Collaborators
04-Sep-2014 - 18-Oct-2014
International Symposium & Training Course on the Historic Urban Landscape
06-Aug-2014 - 25-Sep-2014
New Online Master’s Degree offered in the Management of African World Heritage
28-Jul-2014 - 01-Oct-2014
The Course
According to the Emergency Events database EM-DAT, from 2000-2012, around 2.9 billion people were adversely affected by disasters caused by natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, floods, storms etc.). Another 1.5 billion people are living in countries afflicted with civil strife and violent conflicts, states the World Development Report of 2011. The resultant damage and loss to life ...