Held under the theme "Tourism and Sports United for Sustainability", the Congress focused on key issues such as sports tourism's economic impact and its contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

While mountain tourism has become an increasingly relevant motivation for travel, data on its size and impact remains scarce, a new report from the UN agencies the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UNWTO and the Mountain Partnership makes clear.

UNWTO and the Global Tourism Economic Forum (GTEF) have outlined their plans for stronger and closer collaboration.

Join over 70 villages from almost 40 countries have been recognized as Best Tourism Villages.

UNWTO and GTEF plot stronger collaboration

The Next Generation Of Leisure: Building Personalized Travel Experiences With Generative AI

At FITUR 2023, UNWTO served as the bridge between public and private leaders to advance plans to build a more diverse, resilient and sustainable tourism sector.

The joint plans will see the two organizations work together to develop a set of comprehensive tourism investment guidelines. The guidelines will be focused on five countries, namely Ecuador, Uruguay, Panama and El Salvador in the Latin American region, as well as and Barbados in the Caribbean region.

Joining the INSTO Network will help Yucatán manage tourism development in a responsible and sustainable manner, taking a holistic view in developing adequate and innovative strategies for “rethinking” tourism.

Guatemala signs the International Code for the Protection of Tourists to restore consumers’ trust.

Investing in tourism means investing in many people's future. That’s why we launched a new set of guidelines, developed with National Secretariat of Tourism, to invest in Paraguay's tourism sector.

We broke down barriers to build a more accessible tourism. With Fundación ONCE and Spanish Association for Standardization (UNE) we guide tourism stakeholders towards a more equal sector showing how to apply the UNE-ISO 21902 standard across their operations.

Nothing equals the power of wine tourism to promote talent and rural development. We join hands with the Ministry of Tourism of Spain and the Regional Government of La Rioja to announce the 7th World UNWTO Conference on Wine Tourism. 

Tourism and sports team up for development! 26-27 April 2023 we will celebrate the II World Sports Tourism Congress in Zadar, Croatia. 

As tourism recovers, we must make trends, not just follow them. We join efforts with WOW Concept around a shared vision for urban tourism to deliver innovative, digital shopping experiences.

With the Regional Government of Madrid, we showcase best practices seizing the cultural landscape to integrate it in its tourism sector.

UNWTO’s partnership with the Global Institute for the Future of Tourism (GIFT) will deepen our cooperation to better address the challenges and opportunities to rebuild a more competitive tourism.

UNWTO bridges private-public partnerships. The 58th UNWTO Meeting of the Board of the Affiliate Members is ? to share the recent achievements and to set the roadmap for the future plan of the Membership.

UNWTO Affiliate Members illustrated how tourism will look like in the year ahead and how to capitalize on the changes happening in the sector. 

The "From Potential to Prosperity" conference in Doha came at the pivotal half-way point towards implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Global Goals.

Marking International Women's Day, UNWTO and UN Women together reaffirmed their commitment to keep women's empowerment at the centre of tourism development.

This new UNWTO report highlighting the progress of global tourism towards measuring greenhouse gas emissions and the challenges the sector still faces.

Women in Tech Startup Competition: Middle East will further advance UNWTO's work to make tourism a pillar of women's empowerment. The initiative gives innovators the chance to compete for capacity building and visibility.
Applications by July 2023.

Centre Stage project: The UNWTO project 'Centre Stage: Women's empowerment during the COVID-19 recovery', coordinates efforts towards gender equality in tourism.

• Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines for the Public Sector in Tourism
• Gender-inclusive Strategy for Tourism Businesses.

Snapshot of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment in National Tourism Strategies: This is an overview of the study of 70 publicly available strategies and offers recommendations to policymakers for achieving 'gender-transformative' tourism policies.

Inflation isn't dampening people's desire to travel — but travel companies may be missing a trick

LDC5: World leaders back 'blueprint for recovery, renewal, resilience' in least developed countries

New report to support climate action in the tourism sector

UNWTO reaffirms commitment to women's empowerment in tourism development

With global tourism on track to reach pre-pandemic levels by the end of the year, UNWTO convened its Executive Council to advance plans to place education, investments and sustainability at the centre of the sector's future.

"Put people front and centre." was the core message as UNWTO brought together global branding experts, journalists and content creators to rethink narratives around tourism communications.

The World Committee on Tourism Ethics (WCTE) has met again to advance its work around inclusive and decent work in tourism, environmental sustainability, intercultural dialogue, and digital transformation.

Join over 70 villages from almost 40 countries have been recognized as Best Tourism Villages.

• An overview of greenhouse gas emissions measurement in tourism
• Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism
• Global Tourism Plastics Initiative - Annual Report
• Glasgow Declaration in Conversation: Mini Webinar Series on Measurement of GHG

Where to go this summer: A dozen destination ideas

235M traveled across globe in 1st quarter of 2023–UNWTO

A week in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy's mosaic

World Tourism Day: Vatican highlights need for 'green' investment

One hundred experts from around the world gathered at UNWTO Headquarters to develop the next standard for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (MST).

During COP15 in Montreal, UNWTO, WTTC and Sustainable Hospitality Alliance announced a new collaboration which will bring together the public and private sectors in a shared vision to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030.

‘Gastronomy Tourism for People and Planet: Innovate, Empower and Preserve’ was the theme as national and international experts met in Nara for the 7th UNWTO Forum on Gastronomy Tourism.

Op-ed by UNWTO Secretary General, Zurab Pololikashvili and European Union Commissioner for Transport, Adina Vălean.

The first national edition of the UNWTO Students League concluded with a celebration of Swiss tourism talent with Team SHL from SHL Schweizerische Hotelfachschule Luzern, winning this edition

The World Committee on Tourism Ethics (WCTE) has met to advance the fair and responsible recovery of the sector.

This Report is designed to provide an overview of, as well as to examine and assess the work of UNWTO as it leads the global sector out of crisis and into the future.

The G20 Tourism Working Group presented the Guidelines to make MSMEs & Communities agents of transformation. These scale up global efforts to help the backbone of tourism sector through financing, innovation and technology.

“In Saudi Arabia we will make clear the case for more and smarter investments into tourism so as to accelerate the shift to a more sustainable sector.”

Persistent challenges undermine Africa’s tourism revival

Middle Eastern Destinations Lead Global Travel Recovery

UNWTO and European Commission share joint vision for tourism’s future

The first meeting of the G20 Tourism Working Group to be held under the Indian Presidency placed the focus on the sector's role in in advancing the 2030 Agenda, specifically looking at rural tourism for community empowerment.

UNWTO has announced the winners of its Awake Tourism Challenge, celebrating the start-ups that are reshaping the sector in every global region.

Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines for the Public Sector in Tourism

It contains tools to support national, regional, local and other tourism institutions apply an approach to tourism planning, programming and implementation that integrates gender equality and women's economic empowerment.

Global Tourism Plastics Initiative

This set of guidelines enables businesses, governments, and other tourism stakeholders to take concerted action, leading by example in the shift towards circularity in the use of plastics.

Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (MST)

The statistical framework from the MST provides an integrated information base to better inform on sustainable tourism, to facilitate dialogue between different sectors and to encourage integrated, locally relevant decision making.

UNWTO Secretary-General interview: China's reopening provides much-needed jolt to global tourism: UNWTO

Council Post: Finding Opportunity In Chaos: How Short-Term Rental Investors Can Navigate A Recession

Chinese Tourism Rebound Is Good News for Global Markets

A Short-Lived Revenge: Travelers Are Back But Will Be Spending Less

Building on a Memorandum of Understanding signed between both UN agencies in 2020, the high-level meeting focused on intensifying tourism's contribution to rural development.

In Rome, UNWTO advanced tourism for education, rural development and peace.

Advancing UNWTO's work on promoting collaboration across borders, Secretary-General Pololikashvili hosted the first ever meeting of Ministers of Tourism from South East Europe.

On his first official visit to Albania, Secretary-General Pololikashvili reaffirmed his vision for a tourism transformed around the priorities of jobs, education and investments, and met both Prime Minister Rama and from Minister of Tourism Mirela Kumbaro to explore common goals.

Albania hosts forum promoting regional tourism

LDC5: Albania hosts forum promoting regional tourism

UNWTO and FAO strengthen partnership as leaders meet in Rome

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Tourism Authority of Panama (ATP) have launched the Innovative Community Tourism Experiences Competition to promote innovation through alliances between tour operators and community tourism providers.

Tourism leaders from across Africa have come together to rethink the sector and its central role in driving growth and opportunity across the continent.

Ministers of the Environment from across the Pan European region have agreed to promote the transformation of tourism, with key initiatives of the One Planet Sustainable Tourism Programme to serve as their guiding principles.

This Report is designed to provide an overview of, as well as to examine and assess the work of UNWTO as it leads the global sector out of crisis and into the future.

The G20 Tourism Working Group presented the Guidelines to make MSMEs & Communities agents of transformation. These scale up global efforts to help the backbone of tourism sector through financing, innovation and technology.

Towards more sustainable and resilient tourism

Tourism recovery: African leaders discuss growth, opportunities

African Tourism United to Transform Sector for Growth and Opportunity

Observatories Guiding Shift Towards More Sustainable and Resilient Tourism