Summer 2006
Tourism News

Partners in Tourism: Culture and Commerce is a coalition of cultural service organizations, the travel industry, and federal agencies that provides a forum for collaborative research, education, promotion and advocacy with the common goal of advancing the role of culture and heritage in the travel and tourism industry.

8th Cultural & Heritage Tourism Alliance Conference Set
November 8-11, 2006

Culture is the Spark is the theme of the 8th Cultural & Heritage Tourism Alliance Conference set for November 8-11 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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© 2005 Partners in Tourism: Culture and Commerce

Editor: Carolyn Brackett

Assistant Editors: Kimber Craine, Verna Romero & Amy Webb

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Funding Opportunities

Tourism Cares

The tourism industry’s nonprofit organization awards grants to tourism-related nonprofit organizations worldwide for conservation or preservation of exceptional cultural, historic, or natural sites. Tourism Cares considers projects/programs with either or both of the following goals; (1) projects that protect, restore, or conserve sites of exceptional cultural, historic, or natural significance and (2) programs that educate local host communities and the traveling public about conservation and preservation of sites. For more information, see the RFP at http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/10002785/tourismcarestomorrow 

The next deadline is November 1, 2006.