UN Tourism News 82: Sustainable Development of Tourism
UN General Assembly Hosts Tourism for Sustainable Development Event
The United Nations General Assembly has held a second thematic event focused on tourism and the sector’s critical role in critical role of tourism in advancing sustainable development and resilience
A United Vision for Nature - 'Nature Positive' Report Marks New Collaborative Era in Travel & Tourism
WTTC, UN Tourism and the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance join forces to support Nature Positive Tourism
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Glasgow Declaration Implementation Report 2023 – Advancing Climate Action
The Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism Implementation Report 2023 presents the results of a systematic review of all progress updates received from signatories during the first reporting exercise conducted between January and June 2023 (over 400 updates), which in many cases include the submission of a Climate Action Plan (over 250 plans).
Policy Guidance to Support Climate Action by National Tourism Administrations
This policy guidance has been developed to assist governmental agencies dedicated to tourism to develop policies and initiatives that will support the low-carbon transition of the sector. This policy guidance provides examples of good practice from around the world to illustrate how NTAs can implement climate-enabling policy and other initiatives as well as benefit from climate initiatives in other sectors.
European Committee of the Regions and UN Tourism break new ground with study on Rural Tourism and Development in Europe
UN Tourism has partnered with the European Committee of the Regions for a comprehensive study of the significant impact and potential of tourism in fostering socio-economic development in rural areas.
UN Tourism and Croatia to Establish Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism
UN Tourism is to work with the Government Croatia and the University of Zagreb to establish a research and development centre focused on sustainable tourism.
UN TOURISM ON THE GROUND
UN TOURISM COMPLETES A SERIES OF TRAINING BENEFITTING 250 FEMALE TOURISM ENTREPRENEURS ACROSS RURAL AREAS IN MOLDOVA
UN Tourism has laid the foundation in Moldova for a new approach to achieve the SDGs by empowering women in the tourism sector through skills training and quality education, and by promoting gender equality and working together as a community. This pioneer strategy is widely recognized by key tourism stakeholders in the country and is already attracting interest from other development partners.
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION IN GREATER GABORONE
Activities have begun for the comprehensive study of priority tourism sites in Greater Gaborone, Botswana, from which to build a future study to develop investment models and guidelines using sustainable tourism principles. UN Tourism is on the ground from 15-26 April for the launch and inspection visits, and to meet with a wide-ranging group of stakeholders to ensure the sustainable development of the identified sites.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Global Tourism Plastics Initiative
The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative unites the tourism sector behind a common vision to address the root causes of plastic pollution. It enables businesses, governments and other tourism stakeholders to lead by example in the shift towards a circular economy of plastics.
Circular Economy
Circularity represents a strategic approach for the tourism sector, notably from the point of view of minimizing its environmental impacts, including waste and pollution as well as CO2 emissions, given the potential of a circular economy to decouple economic growth from resource use.
Sustainable Tourism Data and Statistics
Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (MST)
The Statistical Framework for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (MST) is an internationally agreed reference framework for measuring the economic, social and environmental aspects of tourism.
SDG Indicators
The UN Tourism is custodian to two SDG indicators from the Global indicator framework. These two indicators are: Indicator 8.9.1: Tourism Direct Gross Domestic Product (Download metadata) Indicator 12.b.1: Implementation of standard accounting tools to monitor the economic and environmental aspects of tourism sustainability.
Coming up!
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69th Meeting of UN Tourism Regional Commission for the AmericasVaradero, Cuba - 30 April 2024 (UN Tourism Members only) |
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High-Level Thematic Event on Tourism - United Nations General AssemblyOnline, 14th May at 09:00 - 10:30 CEST and 15th May at 16:00 - 17:30 CEST |
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