Ideas To Build Back Better: SDGS Start-Up Competition Final Held In Madrid
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Innovators with ideas to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals have been celebrated in Madrid. The final of the UNWTO SDGs Global Startup Competition saw 25 entrepreneurs and enterprises recognized for their creativity and commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 ambitious goals. Advertisements
Organized by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), with the support of over 25 partners from across the global innovation ecosystem, this competition is the biggest innovation initiative ever launched by any part of the wider United Nations system. In all, more than 10,000 applications from 138 different countries were received, each of them promising to advance one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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The next edition of the International Tourism Fair, FITUR 2021, will be held from the 19 to 23 May next year as decided by IFEMA and the FITUR Organising Committee. This decision arrives following a meditated decision that, exceptionally, makes the event essential to the recovery of the tourism industry, at a time that will still preserve its high international impact as well as promote the professional reunion of companies, countries and destinations. It will also provide a much-needed boost to the worldwide tourism activity.
The exceptional change of dates aims to facilitate the participation of all the main players of the tourism industry, at a time when the trade fair plays a critical role in tourism recovery. The meeting of the FITUR Organising Committee, headed by IBERIA’s President, Javier Sánchez Prieto, also featured speeches by the Secretary of State for Tourism, Fernando Valdés; UNWTO Secretary-General, Zurab Pololikashvili; the President of the Spa
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Provided by Dow Jones Jacob Passy Several countries are easing restrictions for fully-vaccinated people looking to vacation, even though public-health officials have maintained warnings against unnecessary travel The European Union voted Wednesday to begin allowing non-essential travel for anyone who is vaccinated against the virus that causes COVID-19. EU ambassadors agreed to update the approach to travel from outside the European Union, European Commission spokesman Christian Wigand told reporters. The EU has authorized the three vaccines commonly available in the United States from Moderna (MRNA), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)and BioNTech (BNTX) and Pfizer (PFE). Additionally, the EU is set to update its guidelines for travel access (no more than 25 new coronavirus cases per 100,000 people within the previous 14 days) for non-vaccinated travelers. EU officials are expected to settle on a limit of countries that have no more than 75 cases per 100