A presentation made at the Southern African Sustainable Tourism Alliance meeting, in Durban, South Africa in May 2014. The presentation summarised findings of a study undertaken for the Global Partnership on Sustainable Tourism, through UNEP and supported by GiZ
A presentation made at the Southern African Sustainable Tourism Alliance meeting, in Durban, South Africa in May 2014. The presentation summarised findings of a study undertaken for the Global Partnership on Sustainable Tourism, through UNEP and supported by GiZ
The contribution of tourism to Small Economies and how the tourism sector can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
2013 World Tourism Organization Accessible Tourism UpdateScott Rains
The UNWTO recommendations on "Accessible Tourism for All" (2013) have been approved and endorsed by the General Assembly. Updated from the 2005 version, the recommendations outline a form of tourism that involves a collaborative process among stakeholders to enable people with access requirements to function independently through universally designed tourism products, services and environments. These recommendations were developed within the framework of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of 2007.
Accessible Tourism for All defines the appropriate measures to ensure that persons with disabilities have access, on an equal basis with others, to the physical environment, transportation, information and communications and facilities open to the public or for public use.
"Accessibility is a central element of any responsible and sustainable tourism policy. It is both a human rights imperative and an exceptional business opportunity," said UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai. "Above all, we must come to appreciate that accessible tourism does not only benefit persons with disabilities or special needs, it benefits us all," he added.
Along this line, a manual on "Accessible Tourism for All" is set to be published in late 2013, designed to guide tourism stakeholders to improve the accessibility for tourism destinations, facilities and services worldwide.
The development of the Manual is a joint effort between UNWTO, the European Network for Accessible Tourism (ENAT) and two Spanish institutions, the ACS Foundation and the ONCE Foundation. According to the World Health Organization (2011), there are approximately 1 billion persons with disabilities in the world, or 15% of the world population having a physical, mental or sensory disability. UNWTO´s "Declaration on the Facilitation of Tourist Travel (2009) underlines travel and tourism facilitation for persons with disabilities as an essential element of any policy for the development of responsible tourism.
MTM IXth - Business Plan: An innovative experiential community-based tourism ...MTM IULM
The Business Plan will focus on the development of an innovative tourism product for Northern Uganda, based on the community-based experiential concept developed in the laboratory of Tourist Experience Design (TED) held in the MTM Master
OBJECTIVES
The BP will have the following main objectives:
- Integration of the analysis carried out in the TED laboratory relating to supply, market, competition and sustainable and community based tourism models
- Definition of a tourism product based on the experiential concept developed in the TED laboratory
- Definition of a marketing strategy of the product (distribution, supply chain, price, traditional and web communication)
- Definition of the operational plan for implementation and training
- Definition of the sustainability plan
- Definition of the economic and financial plan
La sostenibilidad turística en el diseño de productos: retos y beneficios.Fundacion Metis
Presentado por: Richard Edward, GAP ADVENTURES/PLANETERRA.
Contenidos:
The Facts
Ecotourism definition
CHANGING TRAVEL THROUGH
FEARLESS INNOVATION
PLANETERRA
Redefining Sustainability...
Greening the Supply-Chain
Voluntourism
The International Ecotourism Society
Sustainable tourism? Understanding the tourist market of two Italian Parks: ...Federica Montaguti
Tourists show a growing sensitiveness towards sustainability. However, several studies reveal a significant inconsistency between tourists’ attitude and their actual behaviour at destination.
This seems to be linked to the fact that tourism demand is studied mainly on the basis of intentions rather than on the real experience the tourists live during their holiday. This can bring to over evaluate the demand for sustainable experiences and so to mistakes in estimating demand for a sustainable tourist product, or planning the destination development.
Discussing the main findings of a research about tourism in two Italian Natural Parks, the paper aims at showing the effectiveness of an approach that doesn’t consider the “experience” as a way to add value to a product, but as the tourist product itself. This approach, focussing on actual behaviour and activities, allows to better identify tourism segments and assess which role sustainability plays in tourists’ experience.
The contribution of tourism to Small Economies and how the tourism sector can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
2013 World Tourism Organization Accessible Tourism UpdateScott Rains
The UNWTO recommendations on "Accessible Tourism for All" (2013) have been approved and endorsed by the General Assembly. Updated from the 2005 version, the recommendations outline a form of tourism that involves a collaborative process among stakeholders to enable people with access requirements to function independently through universally designed tourism products, services and environments. These recommendations were developed within the framework of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of 2007.
Accessible Tourism for All defines the appropriate measures to ensure that persons with disabilities have access, on an equal basis with others, to the physical environment, transportation, information and communications and facilities open to the public or for public use.
"Accessibility is a central element of any responsible and sustainable tourism policy. It is both a human rights imperative and an exceptional business opportunity," said UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai. "Above all, we must come to appreciate that accessible tourism does not only benefit persons with disabilities or special needs, it benefits us all," he added.
Along this line, a manual on "Accessible Tourism for All" is set to be published in late 2013, designed to guide tourism stakeholders to improve the accessibility for tourism destinations, facilities and services worldwide.
The development of the Manual is a joint effort between UNWTO, the European Network for Accessible Tourism (ENAT) and two Spanish institutions, the ACS Foundation and the ONCE Foundation. According to the World Health Organization (2011), there are approximately 1 billion persons with disabilities in the world, or 15% of the world population having a physical, mental or sensory disability. UNWTO´s "Declaration on the Facilitation of Tourist Travel (2009) underlines travel and tourism facilitation for persons with disabilities as an essential element of any policy for the development of responsible tourism.
MTM IXth - Business Plan: An innovative experiential community-based tourism ...MTM IULM
The Business Plan will focus on the development of an innovative tourism product for Northern Uganda, based on the community-based experiential concept developed in the laboratory of Tourist Experience Design (TED) held in the MTM Master
OBJECTIVES
The BP will have the following main objectives:
- Integration of the analysis carried out in the TED laboratory relating to supply, market, competition and sustainable and community based tourism models
- Definition of a tourism product based on the experiential concept developed in the TED laboratory
- Definition of a marketing strategy of the product (distribution, supply chain, price, traditional and web communication)
- Definition of the operational plan for implementation and training
- Definition of the sustainability plan
- Definition of the economic and financial plan
La sostenibilidad turística en el diseño de productos: retos y beneficios.Fundacion Metis
Presentado por: Richard Edward, GAP ADVENTURES/PLANETERRA.
Contenidos:
The Facts
Ecotourism definition
CHANGING TRAVEL THROUGH
FEARLESS INNOVATION
PLANETERRA
Redefining Sustainability...
Greening the Supply-Chain
Voluntourism
The International Ecotourism Society
Sustainable tourism? Understanding the tourist market of two Italian Parks: ...Federica Montaguti
Tourists show a growing sensitiveness towards sustainability. However, several studies reveal a significant inconsistency between tourists’ attitude and their actual behaviour at destination.
This seems to be linked to the fact that tourism demand is studied mainly on the basis of intentions rather than on the real experience the tourists live during their holiday. This can bring to over evaluate the demand for sustainable experiences and so to mistakes in estimating demand for a sustainable tourist product, or planning the destination development.
Discussing the main findings of a research about tourism in two Italian Natural Parks, the paper aims at showing the effectiveness of an approach that doesn’t consider the “experience” as a way to add value to a product, but as the tourist product itself. This approach, focussing on actual behaviour and activities, allows to better identify tourism segments and assess which role sustainability plays in tourists’ experience.
Tourism is one of the world’s fastest growing industries and is a major source of income for many countries. It can have both positive and negative impacts towards the image of the particular destinations tourism image. Sustainable tourism development attempts to find the balance between Environment, Economic and Culture to create an improved quality of life for the host community. The paper analyses about the concepts, practices, strategies, issues and trends of Sustainable Tourism Development
Tourism is one of the world’s fastest growing industries and is a major source of income for many countries. It can have both positive and negative impacts towards the image of the particular destinations tourism image. Sustainable tourism development attempts to find the balance between Environment, Economic and Culture to create an improved quality of life for the host community. The paper analyses about the concepts, practices, strategies, issues and trends of Sustainable Tourism Development
Presentation on a paper entitled, "Is it more fun in the Philippines? : Challenges to sustainable tourism development in the Philippines" at the International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment (IICE) in Portland, Oregon (June, 2013)
Sustainable tourism development is an essential approach that aims to minimize the negative impacts of tourism on the environment, culture, and local communities while maximizing the positive contributions it can bring. In recent years, there has been an increasing global recognition of the importance of sustainable tourism as a means to preserve natural and cultural heritage, foster economic growth, and ensure long-term benefits for destinations and stakeholders. This article explores the significance of promoting sustainable tourism development and highlights key strategies that can be implemented to encourage responsible travel.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FME
Sustainable Outline
1. Concepts & Definitions – Sustainable Development of Tourism Conceptual Definition (WTO, 2004) Sustainable tourism development guidelines and management practices are applicable to all forms of tourism in all types of destinations, including mass tourism and the various niche tourism segments. Sustainability principles refer to the environmental, economic and socio-cultural aspects of tourism development, and a suitable balance must be established between these three dimensions to guarantee its long-term sustainability.
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3. Sustainable tourism development requires the informed participation of all relevant stakeholders, as well as strong political leadership to ensure wide participation and consensus building. Achieving sustainable tourism is a continuous process and it requires constant monitoring of impacts, introducing the necessary preventive and/or corrective measures whenever necessary. Sustainable tourism should also maintain a high level of tourist satisfaction and ensure a meaningful experience to the tourists, raising their awareness about sustainability issues and promoting sustainable tourism practices amongst them. http://www.world-tourism.org/frameset/frame_sustainable.html
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5. Sustainable Tourism Sustainable tourism is about refocusing and re-adapting. A balance must be found between limits and usage so that continuous changing, monitoring and planning ensure that tourism can be managed. This requires thinking long-term (10, 20+ years) and realising that change is often cumulative, gradual and irreversible. Economic, social and environmental aspects of sustainable development must include the interests of all stakeholders including indigenous people, local communities, visitors, industry and government. http:// www.sustainabletourism.net/index.html Questions for tour operators. Are you operating in a sustainable way? http://www.sustainabletourism.net/questions.html
6. Group Task Devise a list of criteria for a certification programme for tour operators and resorts. Each group should focus on one of these areas and present at least 6 measurable criteria. Economic Social / Cultural Environmental Your criteria must be specific so you could use it to assess whether or not a company is operating in a sustainable way.
7. Sustainable Tourism School Award Using your assessment criteria assess how sustainable tourism is in the following examples. Basecamp Explorer (Kenya) http:// www.basecampexplorer.com/masaimara/en Yachana Lodge (Ecuador) http://www.yachana.com/ Black Sheep Inn (Ecuador) http://www.blacksheepinn.com/ Kasbah Toubkal (Morocco) http://www.kasbahdutoubkal.com/ Vysoky Tatras National Park (Slovakia) http://www.tanap.org/en/
8. According to you assessment which is the most sustainable? What are some of the examples of good practice which can be used by other?
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