#WeAreUIMLA – Cecilia Mariani
This is me in the place I love the most: the mountains. Map in hand, admiring one of the best views I’ve seen in all my life.
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UIMLA Membership 2021
UIMLA now has 21 Full members and we’re becoming an organisation with a global reach. Each member will have a UIMLA membership card with a holographic sticker on it to validate they meet our standard. Each association tells us how many members they have before our AGA so we can send those stickers in good
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New UIMLA Documents
For several years member associations, led by our largest member from France, have asked that we democratically review our statutes and internal processes, especially relating to membership, to reflect our growing size. In 2020 UIMLA made a working group with members from France, Bulgaria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Italy and the UK.
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AGA 2020 – The Movie
Thanks to Klemen Volontar of our new Full member, ZPVS of Slovenia for this super video. It shows we can still do some great work with professionalism and friendliness even in these difficult times. Merci à Klemen Volontar de notre nouveau membre à part entière, ZPVS de Slovénie pour cette super vidéo. Cela montre que
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Welcoming new members to the UIMLA Family
During the 2020 UIMLA Virtual Annual General Assembly the delegates of member associations accepted 4 new members – two full members and two aspirant members. Those full members now have training systems that can award our prestigious diploma and their members (meeting that criteria) will wear our badge. The aspirant members are starting on their
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AGA 2020 – Day one
We’re all very sad that we can’t be together face to face this year. The first morning of our AGA was spent looking at admin details like the minutes from last year, activity report and financial reports. These were accepted by a votes of the assembly. The activity report was already on the website During
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Swedish Mountain Leader Association – UIMLA Assessment
The Swedish Mountain Leader Association (SFLO) are aspirant members of UIMLA and were accepted in 2018 at the AGA in Poprad, Slovakia. In October 2020 UIMLA assessors Dominique Olbrechts (BE) and Caroline Hale (UK) visited Sweden to observe a summer training course. This is one of two observation visits that UIMLA will make to assess
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UIMLA – 2020 in review
(traduction automatique) The UIMLA Annual General Assembly, or AGA as we call it, will be held on the 6th and 7th November 2020. Originally planned to take place in Starigrad in Croatia it will now be held virtually due the current health crisis. The event is being organised and funded directly by the UIMLA Executive
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UIMLA Mobility Working Group
In organisations like UIMLA or the IFMGA we use the term “mobility” to describe the ability of mountain leaders and mountain guides to be able to work in other countries. We are a very mobile group, we often work with clients in other countries and we have tours that can cross national borders one or
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Petition: Reform of the European Package Travel Directive
Germany (currently presiding the EU) has started a petition proposing a change to the European Package Travel Directive. The petition demands that customers pay a proportion of the cancellation fees in the event of cancellation due to force majeure. If you also would like to maintain a variety of offers and tour operators in the
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