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On Wednesday, January 27th ISET hosted Mr. Marcio Favilla Lucca de Paula, Executive Director for Operational Programmes and Institutional Relations at the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) based in Madrid, Spain. World Tourism Organization became one of the UN specialized agencies in 2013 and is the newest one among 14 specialized agencies. The organization has more than 150 member states along with affiliate members encompassing private organizations and universities.
Dr. de Paula delivered a speech on global tourism trends and perspectives. He started his presentation with global tourism statistics showing impressive increase in the number of international tourists travelling around the world from 25 mln tourist arrivals in 1950 to 1 bln in 2012. He also discussed the definition of the term “tourist” and the difference between 1 day visitors and visitors who stay in the country at least for 1 night but less than for 365 days. Latter are defined as tourists. He also pointed out the importance of residence instead of nationality when accounting for international tourists.
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On Thursday, November 19, ISET hosted Zurab Japaridze, a member of the Parliament of Georgia. The title of his presentation was “As of the Argonauts to Shevardnadze”. Zurab presented the economic history of Georgia and discussed various factors affecting its development along the way. The material was unique and heavily based on different alternative historical sources describing economic phenomena of the past. Zurab described history in the context of geo-political and foreign relationships. He tried to show that the success of the country was always tied to its economic situation. Among others, he presented thoughtful economic reforms of David the Builder which led to country’s prosperity. Zurab hypothesized that later failure against Mongols was caused by the weakened economy. Discovered fake money from King Tamar’s period indicates that country’s economic situation was not healthy.
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