Melissa Dewalt caught the travel bug a decade ago when she drove from her home state of Pennsylvania across the country to California to visit her then-boyfriend. She then road-tripped north to Seattle.
20.08.2024 - 20:47 / breakingtravelnews.com
International Geological Congress Returns after 8 Years as an In-person Event
The 37th International Geological Congress (IGC 2024) will be held at BEXCO in Busan from August 25 to 31, under the theme “Great Voyagers: Sailing Toward a Unified Earth.” As the “Olympics of Geological Sciences,” IGC 2024 is a global event for geologists and Earth scientists who explore the secrets of the Earth and study planetary geology. The 36th IGC in 2020 was conducted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but this year’s congress will return as a large-scale, in-person event for the first time in eight years.
IGC 2024 has been planned for eight years and is now just about to begin. With several events tied into it, including an expo, field trips, a film festival, and cultural performances, IGC 2024 is set to be an opportunity for learning and festivities that is open to all who are interested in geology.
The BTO CVB and Busan Metropolitan City have put together a MICE and tourism promotions booth for IGC 2024 to best present Busan as an attractive tourism city, while helping international visitors to IGC 2024 to get the most out of their time in the marine city.
Source: Busan Tourism Organization
The Road to IGC 2024 in Busan
The International Geological Congress (IGC) is returning to East Asia for the first time in 28 years, with its last East Asian event having taken place in China in 1996. The efforts of many were involved in bringing this landmark event to Busan, as well as a great deal of work behind the scenes.
The Geological Society of Korea, the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources, the Ministry of Science and ICT, Busan Metropolitan City, and the BTO CVB worked as one team that campaigned in the US, Europe, and Africa for the hosting of IGC 2024 in Busan. Busan stood out at IGC 2016, securing the majority of votes and being chosen as the host city for IGC 2024.
Envisioned as the biggest IGC event ever, IGC 2024 has been eight years in the making and is now about to unfold.
Source: Busan Tourism Organization
An Affirmation of Sustainability and Responsibility to the Environment
With eco-friendly booths using recyclable wood, the BTO CVB will be participating in IGC 2024 by promoting environmentalism and the many ways in which Busan is growing as a sustainable MICE city.
IGC 2024 is to be a paperless conference, with all handouts and records made electronically. Local suppliers to IGC 2024 were chosen based in part on their minimization of plastic disposables, and recycling stations will be placed throughout the venue to encourage participants to voluntarily dispose of their waste sensibly. Initiatives for carbon offsets and other environmental impact reductions will be observed on field
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Clarksville, a historic district of Austin, Texas, has lately emerged as a stylish dining and shopping enclave. Among the area’s most compelling new businesses is La Embajada, a design shop housed in a 1923 Craftsman bungalow. Combining the hospitality and interiors expertise of its founder, Raul Cabra — who has designed tableware for some of Mexico City’s most celebrated restaurants, including Rosetta and Pujol — La Embajada presents a refined, regionally diverse selection of Mexico’s artisanal offerings. A series of small rooms display vintage and contemporary furniture, from stately midcentury armchairs and 1970s glass sconces to a minimalist agave fiber rug by the Oaxaca-based textile artist Trine Ellitsgaard. The house is also an actual residence. Cabra often stays in the bedroom up the creaky stairs, and he’s recently made it available for short-term stays (bookings include a daily basket of baked goods from Austin’s Swedish Hill). Guests can purchase the room’s handmade décor, such as a pair of sleek bedside lamps in milky white onyx, a 1960s La Malinche dresser and a bedspread from a Michoacan manufacturer that once supplied Herman Miller. Downstairs, glassware, candles and gifts fill a section modeled after a typical general store in a small Mexican town. But La Embajada’s heart is its inviting kitchen, where visiting chefs cook elaborate meals and staff prepare ice cream and coffee. In another twist, every bespoke detail — including a hammered copper sink, caramel-colored tiles and waxed pine cabinets — can be custom-ordered for one’s own home.
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Oman Air is replacing its first-class cabin for specific routes, joining a growing list of carriers to do so. The replacement is called “Business Studio” and will initially feature on London and Bangkok routes.