Representatives of UTMS were participants at the international scientific seminar, held in Serbia that was organized under the auspices of UNWTO
Delegation from University of Tourism and Management in Skopje, within Mijalce Georgievski Ph.D., Saso Kozhuharov Ph.D., Zoran Ivanovski Ph.D. and Aleksandra Stoilkovska Ph.D. on 26 and 27 May 2013, attended seminar entitled "Sustainable tourism at Inland Water Destinations”, held in Belgrade, which was organized by the World Tourism Organization of the United Nations - UNWTO, Ministry of Finance and Economy of Republic of Serbia and Tourist Federation of the Republic of Serbia.
Over 200 participants attended the seminar, including senior representatives of governments of many countries, or ministers, deputy ministers, state secretaries, representatives of the academic and business community, or the economy, finance and tourism, as well as the most responsible leaders of national tourism communities.
Despite the gathering and presentation of the latest best practices in world travel, this seminar launched a whole new trend of organizing scientific events. Innovative promotion of a new modus of holding scientific conferences cruise was applied for the first time and this time it was held on the river Danube, or from Belgrade to Gerdap, and lasted for two days.
At the end of the symposium, representatives of UTMS held many separate meetings with the highest officials of the institutions and organizations who were present at this meeting, including the Secretary General of the UNWTO Mr. Taleb Rifai, CEO of the German Tourism Association Ms. Petra Hedorfer, Mr. Jiang Shi who is a representative of China in the UNWTO in Madrid, Secretary for Economy and Finance Mr. Goran Petkovic and many others.
Of a great importance, was the meeting with professors from the University of Belgrade who UTMS is planning to establish educational cooperation with. Numbers of strategic and operational issues of interest to the University were generally consistent and coordinated.
Many of the participants have confirmed their participation in the Third International Scientific Congress of UTMS-ICONBEST 2013, which is going to be held in autumn in Skopje.
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