The first congress of Iranians active in the tourism industry

“Sustainable and resilient tourism in Iran”

17 and 18 December 2022

The purpose of holding the first session of this congress is to create a ground for sharing theoretical and practical knowledge and to provide practical solutions in order to implement and realize “sustainable and resilient tourism in Iran”. This congress, by bringing together Persian-speaking researchers and tourism activists inside and outside the country, intends to provide a suitable ground for presenting the latest scientific and professional achievements of tourism and hotel management in Persian, and key proposals for reviving and re-creating this industry. Provide. Persian speakers mean all Iranians of different ethnicity from around the world, as well as citizens of other countries, whether Iranian or non-Iranian, who can speak Persian.

 

Local future planning people have a long experience with conserving the agricultural heritage landscapes of Japan. Some have visited similar agricultural heritage landscape in other countries and have created dialogues among agricultural heritage communities. These workshop activities are not only for local communities to understand their potential better but can enable them to utilize traditional knowledge and to share lessons among communities and also conduct internships and training programs for students from Japan and abroad. In this way a series of international internship programs and study activities have been conducted with other universities and international organizations.

If you are interested about local communities and leadership at the community level or if you want to know about the everyday lives of people in local areas and the story of sustainable adaptation of human nature through the traditional landscapes of Japan you can learn from the activities designed for these purposes by the Local Future Planning Association. The subjects that represent the Association’s activities include conserving traditional agriculture and associated landscapes traditional knowledge and crafts, forestry, agriculture and fisheries activities using traditional and sustainable ways of resource management, activities designed in herbal and medicinal edible plants environments such as tourism and cooking events with such materials, branding and value added products using traditional agriculture, international certification, geotourism and associated heritage and volcanic landscape including Hot Springs. 

Paying attention to the agricultural heritage of Oita, the Association works in five different areas related to agriculture heritage including: 

1. The biodiversity values of species of birds and aquatic animals and plants including medicinal edible plants; 
2. Sustainability including sustainable community development and sustainable traditional agriculture landscape planning; 
3. Landscape design and culture, including forestry associated landscape for mushroom production, rice terraces, and land use and landscape diversity; 
4. Cultural landscapes including historical resources traditional lifestyle and marginal villages; 
5. Agriculture heritage tourism using the concept of agricultural heritage as a destination brand covering new types of agricultural experiences, community collaboration, and interaction through agricultural heritage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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