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UIMLA announced today that it has become a signatory of the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism. The Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism unites travel and tourism behind a common set of pathways for climate action, aligning the sector with global commitments and catalysing collaborative solutions to the many challenges facing businesses […]
The UIMLA General Assembly meeting will take place on the 5th of November 2021. Due to the continued pandemic related travel problems, it will take place online. Members of the UIMLA Executive, known as the BEx, will meet in Switzerland. This will be the first time they have met in person since our assembly in
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UIMLA is an international governing body based in Switzerland which is representing International Mountain Leaders (IMLs) working in mountain tourism across the world, around 5.000 professional individuals and 27 countries. The mountain environment is our home and working place in the same time, from south of Argentina to north of Sweden, from Japan Mountains to
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Our colleagues in SGVH (Croatia) informed UIMLA some months ago that an AGA in Croatia was not practical. The executive had hoped to replace this AGA with one in Switzerland to mark our relocation to there. We have monitored the COVID situation and we see that the situation is unclear and worsening in some countries.
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UIMLA (the Union of International Mountain Leader Associations) is pleased to announce that it has relocated to Switzerland. From July 19th 2021, the official base of UIMLA is in the commune of Villars-sur-Ollon in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. UIMLA has 21 full member associations and 7 aspirant associations representing the professional mountain leaders or
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BAIML, UIMLA, the IFMGA, the UIAA and Kilian Jornet Foundation are in collaboration with a project led by GRID-Arendal and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and other partners, is launching the 2021 Mountain Waste Survey. This is the first-ever global survey of the public on waste in mountain areas. More than 1.1 billion people live
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UIMLA is pleased to announce a new partnership with MountainSafety.info. The other associative members of MountainSafety.info are the International Federation of Mountain Guide Associations (IFMGA) and the scientific member SLF/WSL Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research. The NATO Centre of Excellence of Mountain Warfare is an institutional affiliate. The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation
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UIMLA was pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Prokosch the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Linking Tourism & Conservation (LT&C) to our Annual General Assembly in November 2020. Peter presented the work of LT&C to the assembly to support the proposal made by the UIMLA Executive that UIMLA should become a partner of LT&C
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UIMLA is delighted to announce the appointment of Marian Anghel to the position of UIMLA Vice President. Marian is from the Romanian UIMLA association – Societatea Ghizilor şi Liderilor Montani (SGLM). Marian has worked as a mountaineering instructor and leader since 1998 and was part of the leadership for SGLM when they became a Full
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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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