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International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, 2017: The Way Forward – Our Journey to 2030 | Institutional Relations and Resource Mobilization

International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, 2017: The Way Forward – Our Journey to 2030 | Institutional Relations and Resource Mobilization : 19 December 2017 watch live streaming http://webtv.un.org/

World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Programme

World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Programme The vision of the programme is to share the responsibility for conservation of the common natural and cultural heritage of Outstanding Universal Value and sustainable development ensuring that tourism is managed appropriately ( UNESCO, 2013 ). The mission is to facilitate the appropriate management and development of sustainable tourism.

Silk Road, UNWTO

UNWTO has developed a Silk Road Programme which is promoting the sustainable tourism development alongside the historic Silk course. This program will enable the equal benefit for the local communities involved, while involving investors and supporting conservation of the cultural and natural heritage(UNWTO, 2013a). The member states are : “Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, DPR Korea, Rep. Korea, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan (as of November 2012).” (UNWTO, 2013b)

First Sustainable Tourism Observatory

According to UNWTO (2013) the first sustainable tourism observatory opened today in Greece. The observatory was opened by the University of Aegean in collaboration with UNWTO and supported by the Ministry of Tourism of Greece.

Sustainable Tourism

This seems to be a very good way of promoting and having a sustainable tourism and ecotourism in a country. Jordan has different amazing places and is a historical place as well... Sustainable tourism has to show up the bound between the local community , businesses and care given to the environment. In this case we can see the bound of the business in getting involved the local community and giving them equal opportunities to get in contact with the tourists and even sell their goods... For more information have a look at the video...