Date: April 25-27, 2017
Venue: Exhibition Centre “KyivExpoPlaza”, Kyiv, 2-B, SalyutnaStr.
More than 100 participants from around the world, intensive program of conferences, seminars, master classes, business meetings with potential clients and partners, the latest development trend of medical tourism – all this and more awaits you at the VI International Exhibition of medical tourism, SPA & Wellness – Healthcare Travel Expo!
Organizer:LMT Company.With the support of the VerkhovnaRada Committee of Ukraine on Family Matters, Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism; the Ministry of Health of Ukraine; National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine.

12 months to celebrate and promote the contribution of the tourism sector to building a better world. This is the major goal of the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017 that will start in few days. The United Nations General Assembly declared 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development recalling the potential of tourism to advance the universal 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).The International Year aims to support a change in policies, business practices and consumer behavior towards a more sustainable tourism sector than can contribute effectively to the SDGs.

The World Tourism Organization Headquarters in Madrid, Spain, hosted today the presentation of the 3rd UNWTO World Forum on Gastronomy Tourism. The event will be held in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, on 8-9 May 2017.The Forum is organized by UNWTO in collaboration with UNWTO Affiliate Member, the Basque Culinary Center, as part of the activities of the UNWTO Gastronomy Network. The third edition will be dedicated to the links between gastronomy tourism and sustainability in the framework of the 2017 International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development.

“THE GOLDEN CITY GATE” is an creative and innovative expression of the tourism branch and is organized yearly since 2001 within the scope of the International Tourism exchange of ITB as an international tourism film competition.With new category “Travelagencies” and Roadshows.In the next edition during ITB 2017 in March there is the international film print-multimedia competition “THE GOLDEN CITY GATE “.
Wolfgang Jo Huschert – chairman of “Bundesverband der Film- und AV-Produzenten e.V – is the president of the jury. The international trade information service “Tourism-Insider” is the media partner of the film festival and editor-in-chief Joachim Fischer is the Media Director.

Five-star Dusit Thani Yangon will offer a new level of hospitality within the city’s .landmark mixed-use development in the upcoming, new Central Business District.Leading global hospitality company Dusit International has signed a management agreement with Myanmar V-Pile Group to operate the Dusit Thani Yangon. Located just 15 minutes by car from Yangon International Airport, and approximately 20 minutes’ drive from the city’s main tourist attraction, the Shwedagon Pagoda, the new property sits at the heart of land earmarked by the Myanmar government to become the former capital’s new Central Business District.

During a recent visit to Brussels, Belgium, the Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Taleb Rifai, has discussed how to reinforce the collaboration of the Organization with the European Union (EU). Rifai met the EU Commissioners for Education, Culture, Youth and Sports, Tibor Navracsics; for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella; and for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica. Issues such as the links between culture and tourism, the EU Blue Growth Agenda, namely in the areas of oceans and biodiversity, the 2017 International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development and the Sustainable Tourism Goals (SDGs) were in the agenda.