3,000 internal audit professionals and governance stakeholders to convene in Kuala Lumpur for the 70^th Institute of Internal Auditors International Conference 2011

A first for Asia, the upcoming 70^th Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) International Conference 2011 will be held in Malaysia from 10 – 13 July. The biggest gathering for audit professionals this year, the conference is expected to attract 3,000 delegates from over 100 countries to Kuala Lumpur and set the tone of the profession for the new decade.

Hunold at the Annual General Meeting: Becoming a member of oneworld is the most important decision airberlin has made since its public offering – 2011 burdened by political unrest in Northern Africa and the air travel tax – Regular re-election of certain Board members

airberlin’s CEO Joachim Hunold stated that becoming a member of the global airline alliance oneworld® has been one of the most important business decisions since the company’s public offering. As Hunold declared at airberlin’s Annual General Meeting in London today: “International networking offers a huge opportunity for growth.

The Korea MICE Expo 2011 (KME) will welcome 300 buyers and over 3,000 meetings industry professionalhttp://tourism-insider.com/wp-admin/post-new.phps to Coex for business consultations, exhibitions, workshops, and forums from June 28-30 in Seoul.  The three-day event is the largest MICE industry trade show in Korea, and looks to expand its presence as a global industry trade show in Seoul, the country’s largest meetings destination. The 2010 KME enjoyed an overall increase from KME 2009 in the number participants with a twofold increase of foreign buyers, a 73% increase in business consultation sessions, and representatives from an additional 15 countries in attendance.

The third edition of CULTOUR, Global Heritage and Cultural Travel Exhibition, will open in just few days in Quito, Ecuador, sponsored by the Ecuador Ministry of Tourism and the City of Quito. This year CULTOUR has invited over 100 buyers from 23 countries: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand, UK, USA and Venezuela.

On her first visit to Spain as Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet visited UNWTO headquarters in Madrid to strengthen collaboration between the two UN bodies in promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment in the tourism sector.

Meeting with UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, Ms. Bachelet underlined the value of tourism as an economic sector that provides work, prosperity and wellbeing for millions of women, particularly in developing regions. UN Women would continue to promote the importance of tourism for the third UN Millennium Development Goal, Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, she said, “focusing on rural women and the youngest generations”.

“based in Berlin” exhibition presents works by young avant-garde artists

For the next six weeks, Berlin is set to be state of the art: in the true sense of the word, with the opening yesterday of “based in Berlin” – the German capital’s art  event of the summer. Renowned art curators – Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA, New York), Christine Macel (Centre Pompidou, Paris) and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery, London) – have joined forces to hand-pick a team of young exhibition organisers who have put together the works of 80 emerging artists for the “based in Berlin” exhibition. All the artists exhibited live and work in the German capital.