TRANSCULTURA CONNECTS: Opportunities bulletin for young Caribbean cultural professionals The UNESCO EU-funded Transcultura programme publishes a newsletter with a list of opportunities available for young cultural professionals in the Caribbean. Get ready to explore opportunities that could change the course of your creative career! The UNESCO programme Transcultura: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity, funded by the European Union, brings you a new edition of the TRANSCULTURA CONNECTS bulletin. Here you will find calls available1 in the field of the Cultural and Creative Industries in the Caribbean and Europe that will allow you to connect with innovative minds and foster meaningful collaborations in a global environment. Also, don't miss out on the possibility of funding for your projects and accessing research grants. Our goal is to open doors, expand horizons and empower you in your creative career! TRANSCULTURA OPPORTUNITY Sustainable Cultural Tourism Atingi e-academy of Tourism and hospitality Online The [...]

Informática 2024: Progress in Cuba on the path to a digital society By Daily Pérez Guillén The Informática 2024 19th International Convention and Fair is an opportunity to showcase Cuba’s progress in this area. According to the Minister of Communications of the Caribbean country, Mayra Arevich, 31 state entities and 290 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises—88 of them private—make up the Cuban software industry, which also includes the technology parks of Havana and Matanzas. At the opening ceremony, the minister and president of the event also highlighted the progress made in ICT use in Cuba, where telephone density has reached 86%. More than 10.8 million Cubans now use cellphones, 6.6 million of whom use their devices to access the internet, consuming an average of 7.7 megabytes per month, a figure five times higher than that of five years ago. In 2023, Cuba began operations with its second fiber optic cable, while [...]

“The Americas is the promising territory for tourism” Interview with Gustavo Santos, UN Tourism Regional Director for the Americas By Daily Pérez Guillén The Cuban beach resort of Varadero will host the 69th Meeting of UN Tourism Regional Commission for the Americas (CAM) and the Seminar: Enhancing Tourism Development through Innovation in Community-based Tourism, on April 29 and 30. In the lead up to the event, TTC spoke with Gustavo Santos, UN Tourism Regional Director for the Americas. What topics will be on the agenda of the meeting of tourism ministers of the Americas this April in Cuba? The gathering we will hold in April in Varadero, Cuba, corresponds to the meeting of the UN Tourism Regional Commission for the Americas. We hope to bring together representatives of the 26 countries that make up the region and the two Associate Members, as well as the representatives of the private sector that [...]