The European team of WSTC started preparation for the Third World Senior Tourism Congress. On 22th-24th of July Prof. François Vellas hosted a work meeting with Ambassador Jean Jacques Beaussou, Prof. Pilar Valencia, Romain Vellas, Olga Subanova and Georgi Stankov. The topic of the meeting was the development of a […]
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Breaking news! Full delegations from seniors’ organizations and U3As will attend WSTC in Yantai. Groups of 32 Indians, about 35 Slovaks and 30 Frenchmen from Toulouse already confirmed their participation at the Congress. If you provide products and services in the tourism business, this is the perfect opportunity to contact […]
AIUTA TV has launched a new rubric – The Vellas Report, with exclusive news from prof. Francois Vellas, the president of AIUTA. The first issue of the rubric reasonably is called The Vellas Report 1.0, and it contains the following issues: “Silk Roads, routes for peace” – workshop, organised by the Silk Spain […]
UNITRA, the leading adult education organization of Guinea, will take part in the WSTC 2019 in Yantai. This became clear during the visit of WSTC Director Prof. Francois Vellas in Guinea. Prof. Vellas and AIUTA Governing Board member Sidi Camara from UNITRA – Senegal represented AIUTA at […]
When it is about adventures, Aussies are always on the board. A nation of adventurists, innovators, rebels and restless souls, Australians always look to gain new experience and to learn something new. So naturally tourism is among their most favorite things. But how U3As and senior tourism combine? Let’s find […]
The World Senior Tourism Congress was endorsed in the December issue of On the Ground – the newsletter of the UNWTO. It an interview, entitled “Spotlight on Senior Tourism”, prof. Francois Vellas discussed the importance of WSTC and its leading role in fostering senior tourism worldwide. WSTC 2019 will be […]
In the next months AIUTA TV will broadcast many episodes dedicated to the forthcoming World Senior Tourism Congress (WSTC). The first two episodes are available on YouTube. List of episodes: December 2018 WSTC overview from Toulouse, France with Prof. Vellas, Chenxu Wang and Olga Subanova. Russia on focus with Olga […]
Is Russia ready for the development of world class international senior tourism? In this episode of AIUTA TV, Olga Subanova from Moscow presents the trends in senior tourism and senior study tours in the world’s biggest state. Olga Subanova is a team member of WSTC. She holds a PhD […]
WSTC is the biggest international event for senior tourism business. The forecast for 2019 is that WSTC will break the record from 2018 in terms of: attendance, businesses involved, senior citizens’ associations, and number of events in the additional program. What to expect from WSTC 2019? The video below will give […]
On this episode of AIUTA TV (the online talk show of the International Association of the Universities of the Third Age) Prof. Francois Vellas shared his satisfaction with the extremely successful first WSTC in Yantai, and shaped the perspectives of the forthcoming WSTC 2019, and explained the importance of developing […]