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The traditional Estonian Cuisine Month will this year be opened on September 5 during the Viimsi Farmers' Market event held at The Museum of Coastal Folk.
The month filled with food events is arranged and coordinated by the Estonian Ministry of Rural affairs.
For more information please check: http://www.eestitoit.ee/en
Finnish food & Tourism experiences shared in Estonia Haaga-Helia has been developing Finnish food tourism alongside the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Finpro/Visit Finland from the year 2012. Now the development is widening to the other side of the Gulf of Finland - with the contribution of BOSS (From Borders to Shared Space) project.
Haaga-Helia/HHHCCE sponsored and was present at the SAUCE2015 event - a new type of business forum and social event for restaurant professionals with a passion for excellence targeting chefs, artisans, farmers, drinks people, managers, entrepreneurs, visionaries, service experts, commercial wizards, food geeks, wine lovers, etc.
HHHCCE celebrated the World Tourism Day on September 25th with a seminar “Impact is Imminent” held at EBS. The event was co-arranged with Estonian Travel and Tourism Association and Association of Estonian Tourism Education. About 60 participants representing mostly the public and educational sectors related to hospitality and tourism in Estonia.
BOSS From Borders to Shared Space program funds among other projects run by Haaga-Helia Supporting Development of Estonian Food Tourism, which had its first workshop held on October 8th in Tallinn. Up to 20 key food, tourism and food tourism stakeholders were convened at FoodStudio under the title „Strategic Context of Food Tourism“.
The BOSS From Borders to Shared Space program fund, among other projects run by Haaga-Helia, is supporting the development of Estonian food tourism in the project Culinary Gulf of Finland, which had its third workshop held on November 20th in Helsinki as the pre-event activity of the Martinmarkkinat fair held on 21-22.11.
Tallinn was ranked 46th in the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) ranking for 2014 released this summer among 1594 destinations all over the world, as 54 of the events held in Tallinn qualified as international conferences according to ICCA criteria.