Since 1980, the United Nations World Tourism Organization has celebrated World Tourism Day on September 27.

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Tourism According to an estimation of the World Tourism Organization, Bosnia and Herzegovina will have the third highest tourism growth rate in the world between 1995 and 2020.

World Tourism Organization (Council decision 109 (LIX))

Notes with interest the establishment of the World Committee on Tourism Ethics as adopted by the World Tourism Organization General Assembly in 2001

At the World Summit on Sustainable Development, the World Tourism Organization had launched the concept of sustainable tourism as a tool for poverty elimination.

Tourism in modern day Greece started to flourish in the 1960s and 1970s, in what became known as mass tourism.

2. Notes with interest the establishment of the World Committee on Tourism Ethics as adopted by the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization in 2001

2. The United Nations recognizes the decisive and central role of the World Tourism Organization, as an intergovernmental organization, in world tourism, as enshrined in its Statutes.

Paragraph 2 should read Notes with interest the establishment of the World Committee on Tourism Ethics as adopted by the World Tourism Organization General Assembly in 2001 .

Subregional workshop on promoting tourism for world heritage sites, Lomé

Source UNCTAD elaboration of data from the World Tourism Organization.

Mr. Ahmed (World Tourism Organization) said that the conversion of the World Tourism Organization into a United Nations specialized agency was further recognition of the potential of tourism to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

At its February 2005 meeting, the Interagency Coordination Group on Tourism Statistics considered proposals to update the Tourism Satellite Account Recommended Methodological Framework,2 and the 1993 United Nations World Tourism Organization recommendations on tourism statistics.

4. Encourages the World Tourism Organization to promote effective follow up to the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism, with the involvement of relevant stakeholders in the tourism sector

The United Nations and the World Tourism Organization agree as follows

Report on post tsunami actions undertaken by the World Tourism Organization

58 232. Agreement between the United Nations and the World Tourism Organization

7. Representatives of the World Tourism Organization shall be entitled to participate, without vote, in the deliberations of the General Assembly or any committee thereof established by it, at all times when the budget of the World Tourism Organization or general administrative or financial questions concerning the World Tourism Organization are under consideration.

Note by the Secretary General transmitting a report by the World Tourism Organization on the implementation of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (A 60 167)

Requests the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization to take all the necessary measures to provide the World Committee on Tourism Ethics with institutional and administrative support for the complete and successful accomplishment of its work

The World Tourism Organization shall submit to the United Nations regular reports on its activities.

2. The World Tourism Organization agrees to accept the Statute of the Joint Inspection Unit.

Ha Long Bay is now a famous tourism destination and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

It called for the United Nations to enhance its support for the World Tourism Organization in furthering its activities to implement the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism.

Takes note of the note by the Secretary General transmitting the report by the World Tourism Organization on the implementation of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism

5. Requests the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization to take all the necessary measures to provide the World Committee on Tourism Ethics with institutional and administrative support for the complete and successful accomplishment of its work

Eco tourism, cultural and natural heritage tourism, health and medical tourism and adventure tourism are some of the tourism niches that are increasingly marketed by destinations and tourism enterprises in developing countries.

Cultural heritage tourism (or just heritage tourism or diaspora tourism) is a branch of tourism oriented towards the cultural heritage of the location where tourism is occurring.

A subregional workshop on promoting tourism for World Heritage sites will be convened in Lomé, Togo.

Noting the growing socio economic importance of tourism all over the world, especially in developing countries,

Tourism is currently reckoned to support 215 million jobs (8.1 per cent of the world total).

Noting the growing socio economic importance of tourism all over the world, especially in developing countries,

Sports events for young people from slum areas have been organized in connection with World Habitat Day, International Youth Day, World Water Day and World AIDS Day.

Designates the World Tourism Organization as the lead agency of the United Nations system for coordinating the activities of the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Peace and Poverty Eradication

3. Such requests may be addressed to the International Court of Justice by the General Assembly or by the Executive Council of the World Tourism Organization acting in pursuance of an authorization by the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization.

Noting also the tourism action plan of the New Partnership for Africa's Development adopted by the African tourism ministers at the forty first meeting of the World Tourism Organization Commission for Africa and endorsed by the African Union Summit in July 2004,

(a) On 29 December 2004, the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization decided to rally the support of the international tourism community by convening an emergency session of its Executive Council in order to assess the situation and its impact on tourism.

Invites Member States and other stakeholders to give support to the activities undertaken by the World Tourism Organization in favour of sustainable tourism in developing countries for the eradication of poverty

In consideration of the Charter of the United Nations and the Statutes of the World Tourism Organization,

2. The World Tourism Organization recognizes that the United Nations is the central agency for the collection, analysis, publication, standardization and improvement of tourism statistics serving the general purposes of international organizations.

1. Takes note of the note by the Secretary General transmitting the report by the World Tourism Organization on the implementation of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism A 60 167.

6. Invites Member States and other stakeholders to give support to the activities undertaken by the World Tourism Organization in favour of sustainable tourism in developing countries for the eradication of poverty

Expresses its satisfaction with the establishment of the World Committee on Tourism Ethics, composed of high level experts, for the implementation of the principles of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism