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The ropeway World Congress, that the'' World Organisation cableways OITAF organizes every six years, will be held in 2017 in South Tyrol. '' The last edition of the conference was hosted in 2011 in Rio de Janeiro. It will be an organizing committee'' s OITAF to fix the technical content of the meetings.
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The application was submitted by the province of Bolzano to give greater visibility all'' high level of technological modernization that its territory can offer. The candidates were competing cities Sidney, Kiev and Lyon. The choice is fall on'' South Tyrol for the combination of tradition and innovation. The province of Bolzano you can tell a pioneer in the field: the first cable car to transport people in the world is the one made in 1908 in connection with the Bolzano Colle.
L'' OITAF founded in 1959, is '' the only organization in the world for the ropeway, which are currently part of members from 31 countries from all continents. Its purpose is to bring together under one roof operators, manufacturers of cableways and authorities surveillance (on behalf of the State and users).
It,'' among other things, promotes the development progress of the ropeway with studies and research useful for the development and progress,'' the processing of international uniform guidelines for the planning, construction,'' the operation, maintenance and controls of cableways and the preparation of its recommendations.
As explained Markus Pitscheider, director of the Office'' ropeway transport of Bolzano since 1984 serves as the General Secretary OITAF, the purpose of the conference is allow an exchange of experiences and views and to promote awareness of recent developments in the field of research and'' innovation'', dealing with all the economic, technical, tourist material to the environment''. '' The importance of cableways in the tourism sector is increasingly in the media sector urban transport is constantly growing. growing. They play an important role in alpine areas with significant economic returns, but also play a social purpose.
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