Thinking about the "sister city" thing following a radio piece, and about how it seems pretty meaningless in many cases.
I had no idea where Ottawa's sister city is. It never seems to be mentioned nor celebrated here. Turns out we have two – Beijing and Catania.
Presumably it's supposed to foster trade and tourism relationships, but I suspect beyond an initial announcement, it usually fades into obscurity.
Does your city celebrate and build on a sister city relationship?
Yes. Very much.
We do also have 2;
Agen in France and Arad in Israel.
I think, mostly the idea is to select a sister city which has either the same structure/techtourism or the same swag/codes/codices. Or both.
The structure of Arad in Israel is similar cause both are somehow industrial cities be it by coal or salt mining here …
Industrial Cities like these have a large amount of multi-nationality and until the escalation I have visited it several times. Our guest families were jews or palastinians. Or none of those.
It simply did not matter in a sister city relationship!
Ross of Ottawa
Sebastian Lasse