| November 14: a day to contemplate responsible tourism | |
| November 13, 2007 | |
| The London, England-based World Travel Market (WTM) has declared Wednesday November 14, 2007, as the first annual World Responsible Tourism Day, an initiative supported by the UNWTO. Described as "the first opportunity for travel and tourism to become one powerful and unifying force... to make a real difference that will keep our beaches clean, preserve our stunning scenery, save wildlife and glory in our historic buildings and precious heritage," WTM also hopes World Responsible Tourism Day will see the travel industry "take responsibility to help local people wherever they might be, providing them with shelter, jobs, clean water, food and education and protect them from exploitation, corruption and deceit." Quoted in TravelDailyNews, UNWTO secretary-general Francesco Frangialli said: "The tourism sector is the largest common area of export income and foreign direct investment across the world's poorest countries. Tourism to these countries is growing at twice the rate of industrialised markets, and no sector spreads wealth and jobs across poor economies in the same way as tourism." World Responsible Tourism Day is being seen as an opportunity for the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) to reflect on what it is doing to promote sustainable tourism initiatives, and to that end, CTC staff will meet with guest speaker Randy Williams, president and CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of Canada at the Vancouver office of the CTC on November 14th. |
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Author: TOURISM staff Organization: Canadian Tourism Commission E-mail: tourism@ctc-cct.ca |
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