The government is looking into the criteria required to lodge an application with UNESCO next year to designate Macau as a ‘city of gastronomy’ in the UN body’s Creative Cities Network, Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes said yesterday.
She made the remarks after attending a plenary meeting of the government-appointed Tourism Development Committee at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT) in Zape.
According to UNESCO’s website, the network, which was created in 2004, currently consists of 116 cities in 54 countries covering seven creative fields, namely crafts and folk art, design, film, gastronomy, literature, music, and media arts. The network aims to promote co-operation with and among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development, the website says.
Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes talks to reporters on the sidelines of a plenary meeting of the Tourism Development Committee at the Tourism Activities Centre (CAT) in Zape yesterday. Photo: Davis Ip
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