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Home > Tourism - Updated: 14-04-2003 2:20 pm
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Towards more responsible tourism.
Tourism is the world’s largest industry and studies predict its increasing growth.
Websites
 | Biosphere Reserves and More Responsible Tourism
Testing improved approaches to tourism development is a key activity at many of the sites in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (currently, 408 sites in 94 counties) within the MAB Programme.
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| CSI Web-based Forum on Wise Coastal Practices
Tourism is one of the topics addressed in a web-based forum operated by the platform on Environment and Development in Coastal Regions and in Small Islands (CSI).
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| Cultural Tourism
Helping countries and communities to devise strategies for the long-term preservation of the cultural heritage
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| Intangible Heritage
An increasingly important component of tourism is the oral and intangible heritage, including music, languages, oral traditions and the performing arts.
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| International Scientific Council for Island Development (INSULA)
November 1999 study on the development and impacts of tourism and tourism services (e.g. air services) on small islands.
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| SCOPE-EGIS Study on Tourism Effects on Biodiversity in Coastal and Island Regions
May 2002 saw the publication of a multi-authored volume on ”Tourism, biodiversity and information”
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| Sustainable Tourism Module in “Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future”
One of 25 modules in a multimedia teacher education programme published by UNESCO in 2002 as part of its function as task manager of Chapter 36 of Agenda 21 and as a contribution to the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
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| Tour Operators’ Initiative for Sustainable Tourism Development
Joint initiative of UNEP, UNESCO and WTO and tour operators. Aim is to create synergy between tour operators who share a common goal to develop and implement tools and practices that improve the environmental, social and cultural sustainability of tourism.
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| UN Atlas of the Oceans
‘Recreation and tourism’ is one of the categories of use in the recently launched Internet portal on the oceans
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| UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE)
Together with the World Tourism Organization (WTO), joint organizer of the International Year of Ecotourism (2002) and the World Ecotourism Summit (Quebec City, Canada, 19 to 22 May).
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| United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage (2002)
UNESCO’s role as lead agency for the Year is serving to reinforce the Organization’s work to promote cultural heritage as a factor in development (including tourism development) as well as an instrument for peace and reconciliation.
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| Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
Includes a set of principles and objectives for enhancing the synergy of actions in favour of the cultural heritage.
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| World Heritage Sites as Premium Tourist Destinations
The World Heritage List (presently comprising 721 exceptional cultural and natural sites in 124 countries) includes some of the world’s greatest tourism destinations, ranging from the Taj Mahal to Machu Picchu and the banks of the Seine in Paris, from the Great Barrier Reef to Sagamartha and Kilimanjaro.
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| World Tourism Organization (WTO)
Joint organizer with UNEP of the World Ecotourism Summit (Quebec City, Canada, 19-22 May), principal event in the International Year of Ecotourism (2002).
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