UNWTO Out With Tourism Vision 2030
UNWTO launches its new long-term research programme UNWTO Future Vision: Tourism Towards 2030. The study will forecast international tourism growth through the year 2030 and
identify key actual and future trends and their impact on tourism development. It will combine industry data with the views of UNWTO members, tourism practitioners, trends experts and academics around the world. This initiative will update the previous Tourism 2020 Vision, which has become the definitive global reference on the future of tourism.
UNWTO Future Vision: Tourism Towards 2030 will provide a comprehensive view on the global and regional future tourism scenarios which will assist UNWTO members and other stakeholders in the formulation of their tourism development and marketing strategies. The study will be officially presented at the upcoming UNWTO General Assembly (Republic
of Kazakhstan, first week of October 2009).
“Tourism Towards 2030 is a cornerstone of our view of the future. It is a body of work that will be used and relied upon by thousands of private and public sector operators within the tourism sector over the next decade”, said UNWTO Assistant Secretary-General Geoffrey Lipman.
“This programme highlights our continued commitment to helping the sector, and UNWTO members in particular, develop long-term strategic plans. During this time of global economic uncertainty it is easy to take your eye off the longer term future. To do that would be a mistake in a sector that requires global cooperation and forward planning on a uniquely large scale”, he added.
Also recently, the World Committee on Tourism Ethics inaugurated its Permanent Secretariat on the occasion of its seventh meeting in Rome, between November 14th and 15th 2008.
The Secretariat will provide technical and expert support to the World Committee on Tourism Ethics, in particular, promoting and disseminating UNWTO’s Global Code of Ethics for Tourism.
The World Committee on Tourism Ethics looked at ethical aspects of important issues for tourism such as facilitation of tourist travel, HIV travel related restrictions and the recent launch of the new UNWTO Campaign to Protect Children from Exploitation in Travel and Tourism.
“Expressing the social responsibility of the Tourism Sector is one of the main contributions of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism”, said Dawid De Villiers, Chairman of the Committee.
“Few sectors of the economy are so strategically positioned as tourism to make a meaningful contribution to the major challenges of our times. Tourism is per excellence a people to people activity and the strength of the industry can be deployed to help cement peace and tolerance, promote development, create jobs, stabilise societies and root out the abuses that can infiltrate society through tourism”, he added.
The Committee is to articulates its programme of work around four main objectives; strengthening the knowledge and promotion of the Code, improving its implementation, providing a consultation and conciliation mechanism; and developing a corpus of guidelines for stakeholders.
The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, received the Members of the World Committee,observers and UNWTO representatives for an informal group audience at the Vatican.
The Secretary-General of UNWTO, Francesco Frangialli, gave a copy of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism to the Pope.
The Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (GCET) is a comprehensive set of principles
whose purpose is to guide stakeholders in tourism development: central and local governments, local communities, the tourism industry and its professionals, as well as visitors, both international and domestic.