scholarly journals Karst as Important Resource for Geopark-Based Tourism: Current State and Biases

Resources ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Ruban
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Geological Heritage ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Karst Caves ◽  
Current State ◽  
Karst Landscapes ◽  
Salt Karst

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Global Geoparks initiative balances the conservation of geological heritage with its use in purposes of tourism industry. However, the resources of geoparks and the current state of their use are yet to be fully understood. The phenomenon of karst (caves, sinkholes, etc.) appears to be a valuable geopark resource because it attracts numerous visitors interested in geo-, eco-, and speleotourism. Of 140 global geoparks, 37% exploit karst resources. These are located chiefly in Europe and Southeast Asia. Just a few geoparks are fully based on karst features and the others use this resource together with other geological heritage resources. Global geoparks tend to emphasize either particular karst elements or entire karst landscapes. Many interesting features (e.g., gypsum and salt karst) are underrepresented in global geoparks. The UNESCO Global Geoparks initiative should become more phenomenon-focused to offer full representation of karst resources. For some countries like Russia and the United States, where geoparks have not been created yet, the consideration of karst resources may provide significant advantages in the strategic development of geopark-based geotourism.

scholarly journals Economic and political future of Hong Kong

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Nikita Sergeevich Stepanov
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Sector ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Status ◽  
Logical Modeling ◽  
The Subject

Relevance of this article is substantiated by series changes in the world's largest economy, related to the special status of Hong Kong, which is rapidly losing its autonomy and privileges associated with it. The goal consists in outlining potential prospects and restrictions pertaining to economic and political future of Hong Kong. The subject of this research is the peculiarities, trends and patterns of Hong Kong’s development in the economic and political spheres. Examination of the development of Hong Kong and the factors impacting these processes was conducted by means of structural approach, methods of logical, comparative and statistical analysis, grouping, abstract-logical modeling, etc. The conducted research of modern trends and patterns allowed determining the key problems that may negatively affect successful development of Hong Kong in the nearest future: China’s encroachment on the special status of Hong Kong, reflected in the adoption of in 2019; possible sanctions from the United States, threatening to deprive Hong Kong of the status of world’s top financial hub; protests of Hong Kong’s residents; effects of the Coronavirus pandemic in the economic sector. The acquired results may be applied in formation of Hong Kong’s strategic development vectors, considering current conditions of political conflicts, as well as crisis trends related to Coronavirus pandemic. The scientific novelty lies in identification of the problems of current state of Hong Kong, as well as in formulation of possible solutions for balancing the crisis trends. The author believes that there could be several scenarios of events. Full abolition of the special status of Hong Kong seems less realistic, as it would suppress the attempts to establish relations based on the principle “one state – two systems”.

scholarly journals KEY FACTORS OF THE MARKET DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESS TOURISM AND HOTEL SERVICES IN THE REGION

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-430
Author(s):  
Екатерина Огородникова ◽  
Ekaterina Ogorodnikova ◽  
Алексей Рябцев ◽  
Aleksey Ryabtsev ◽  
Андрей Плахин ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Mechanism Of Formation ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Current State ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
The City ◽  
Further Development

The aim of this paper is to investigate the key factors in the development of business tourism market of the Sverdlovsk region and the city of Yekaterinburg. The authors identified the principal aspects of the mechanism of formation of demand from business tourism entities, as well as conducted a structural analysis tools offer of accommodation, including hotels. Identified factors allowed us to formulate the main problems of the current state of the market of business tourism of Sverdlovsk region and the prospects for its further development. Particular attention is also paid to the possibilities of development of Yekaterinburg as a center of business tourism UFD considering the further growth of interest in this type of business tourism as the congress and exhibition. The paper formulated a list of recommendations to improve the Sverdlovsk region and Yekaterinburg attractive from the standpoint of business tourism. Presented in this work can be used by enterprises within the tourism industry in the formation of its strategic development plans as well as the executive bodies of state power in the development of the legal documentation governing the business tourism market.

United States Gives Notice of Withdrawal from UNESCO, Citing Anti-Israel Bias

2018 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-109 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The United Nations

On October 12, 2017, the United States announced its intent to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing “concerns with mounting arrears …, the need for fundamental reform in the organization, and continuing anti-Israel bias.” The United States will remain a full UNESCO member until December 31, 2018, when the withdrawal becomes effective. Thereafter, it will continue to engage with UNESCO as a non-member observer state.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-500
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Refugee Children ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Fundamental Education ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Children In The Middle

Executive BoardThe nineteenth session of the Executive Board of UNESCO met from February 13 to 25,1950. Discussion of the program to be presented to the fifth session of the General Conference continued. The Board attempted to design the program to fit a budget of $8,000,000 — the same figure as for 1950. Other arrangements for the Florence Conference were completed. Invitations were sent to the occupying authorities in the Eastern and Western Zones of Germany and in Japan to send observers, accompanied, if they wished, by expert nationals, to the General Conference. A credit of $40,000 was extended to allow UNESCO to continue for the rest of 1950 its assistance to refugee children in the Middle East. The Board discussed other program activities including the sending of a mission of experts to Ecuador to advise in fundamental education experiments in the areas recently devastated by earthquake. Finally it was decided to recommend that the Conference accept the applications for membership from the United States of Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, and the Hashemite Kingdom of the Jordan.

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization

1959 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-650 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
The United States ◽  
Director General ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
United Arab Republic ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The Government

The Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held its 54th session in Paris, June 1–12, 1959. Under the heading, Execution of the Program, th Board took the following decisions, inter alia:1) to appoint a rapporteur, commissione to follow the successive discussions of the Director-General ‘s reports by the Board, for the purpose of assisting in the preparation of comments by the Board on these reports for information to the General Conference at its forthcoming session; 2) to authorize the Director-General to request the Technical Assistance Committee to contribute for 1960 a sum of $505, 779 toward the Headquarters costs of administering the Technical Assistance Program; 3) to designate twelve Member States— namely, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and the United States—which were to be entitled to appoint a representative for two years on the Intergovernmental Advisory Committee for the Major Project on the Extension of Primary Education in Latin America; 4) to request the Director-General to accept the invitation of the government of Denmark to hold in Denmark in i960 an intergovernmental conference on international oceanographic research and training vessels; 5) to approve the celebration of the anni- 1 Document 54 EX/Decisions, June 22, 1959. For a summary of the 33d session, see International Organization, Spring 1939 (Vol. 13, No. 2), p. 324. versaries of the great personalities (Frederic Chopin and Charles Darwin) listed in one of the documents before the Board; and 6) to authorize the Director-General to signify UNESCO&'s agreement in principle to the proposals by the government of the United Arab Republic concerning international action for the study and protection of the archaeological monuments of Nubia threatened by submergence as a result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam.

scholarly journals The Theory and Practice of UNESCO

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinhold Niebuhr
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Public Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
International Agency ◽  
United Nations Educational ◽  
World Community ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
Secretary Of State

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is in the paradoxical position of performing most useful and necessary functions in the nascent world community but of giving very implausible reasons for the performance of its functions. Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, who was until recently responsible for the United States government's UNESCO policy, reported after the Paris UNESCO conference in 1949 that the organization “had a wider public support” and yet was “more widely criticized” than any other international agency. He rightly suggested that the criticisms were prompted by UNESCO enthusiasts who claimed too much for its functions and thus aroused the opposition of realists who did not believe that its contributions to peace were as important as the organization claimed.

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