San Jose, 15 January 2018 (IICA). On Monday, veterinarian Manuel Otero was sworn in as Director General of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) for the period 2018-2022. The ceremony took place in San Jose, Costa Rica. In a unanimous decision, the ministers of agriculture of the Americas elected Otero to the position […]
International tourist arrivals grew by a remarkable 7% in 2017 to reach a total of 1,322 million, according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. This strong momentum is expected to continue in 2018 at a rate of 4%-5%. Based on data reported by destinations around the world, it is estimated that international tourist arrivals […]
Professional Wealth Management, a publication from the Financial Times, has today launched the world’s first comprehensive guide to the programmes that populate the economic citizenship industry – the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) Index. Economic citizenship – also known as citizenship by investment – is a niche sector that sees the overlap of investment and immigration, […]
Despite a significant fall in youth unemployment since the height of the economic crisis in 2009, persistent unemployment and a lack of quality job opportunities continue to hamper young people’s quest for decent work. GENEVA (ILO News) – Young people are estimated to account for over 35 per cent of the unemployed population worldwide in […]
But sweeping transformations needed to unlock their potential to help feed and employ a younger, more crowded planet 9 October 2017, Rome – Millions of young people in developing countries who are poised to enter the labour force in the coming decades need not flee rural areas to escape poverty, argues a new FAO report […]
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson flew into Barbados this afternoon, and transferred to a military flight directly up to Anguilla. On Wednesday he will visit the British Virgin Islands before returning to the UK. Mr Johnson will be viewing the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma and the UK’s huge relief effort first hand. He will […]
International tourist arrivals to the European Union increased by 4% in 2016, reaching almost 500 million or 40% of the world’s total. This preliminary result is included in the first release of the ‘European Union Short-Term Tourism Trends’, a regular monitoring of EU tourism by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in the framework of the […]
The potential of tourism itineraries and products in the Russian regions of Silk Road has centred the debates of a Seminar conducted last 12 March in Moscow by UNWTO. The Seminar was held in the framework of the UNWTO Silk Road Programme in cooperation with the Russian Federal Agency for Tourism and the Intourmarket Tourism […]
Bridgetown, Barbados – While Dominica, Grenada and Trinidad and Tobago are among the countries in the Caribbean and Americas region where women ministers are nearing or exceeding the gender parity position of 30 per cent of representatives, the number of women in executive government and in parliament worldwide has stagnated, with only marginal improvements since 2015, […]
