{"id":4041,"date":"2022-09-29T00:38:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T00:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=30839"},"modified":"2022-09-29T00:38:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T00:38:20","slug":"world-tourism-day-2022-sector-united-around-rethinking-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top25golfcourses.com\/indonesia\/global-travel-news\/world-tourism-day-2022-sector-united-around-rethinking-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"World Tourism Day 2022 \u2013 Sector United Around Rethinking Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UNWTO<\/a>Bali, Indonesia, September 27, 2022 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ Positive transformation for both people and planet was the central message of World Tourism Day 2022. Held around the theme of \u2018Rethinking Tourism\u2019, the Global Day of Observation emphasized the sector\u2019s unique potential to drive recovery and deliver positive change for people everywhere.<\/p>\n

Hosted by the Republic of Indonesia<\/strong>, in the popular destination of Bali, the official celebrations brought together leaders from across the public and private sector, including the largest and most diverse number of Ministers of Tourism in the history of\u00a0World Tourism Day<\/strong>. They were joined by tourism stakeholders around the world celebrating in their own countries, united around the timely theme of rethinking and transforming the sector.<\/p>\n

Seizing the opportunity<\/h2>\n

Opening the celebrations, UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili stressed the unique opportunity presented to tourism to pause, reflect and recalibrate. He said: \u201cThe restart of tourism everywhere brings hope. It is the ultimate cross-cutting and people-to-people sector. It touches on almost everything we do \u2013 and everything we care about. Tourism\u2019s potential is now recognized more widely than ever. It\u2019s up to us to deliver on this potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tourism\u2019s potential is now recognized more widely than ever. It\u2019s up to us to deliver on this potential<\/p>\n

Joining UNWTO in emphasizing the potential of tourism to deliver wide-reaching change, the Minister of Tourism for the Republic of Indonesia, Sandiaga Uno, noted: \u201cThe most important assets in tourism are its people and the planet. We must ensure the best support for both.\u201d In Bali, UNWTO commended Indonesia for going beyond words and taking concrete steps to transform tourism, notably by becoming the first country in the Asia and the Pacific region to sign up to the ambitious Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism and its goals to reach Net-Zero emissions for the sector by 2050 at the latest.<\/p>\n

Also adding his voice to the celebrations, United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said: \u201cTourism has the power to foster inclusion, protect nature & promote cultural understanding. We must rethink and reinvent the sector to ensure its sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n

World Tourism Day Report Launched<\/h2>\n

To mark the day, UNWTO launched its first World Tourism Day Report, the first in an annual series of updates and analysis of the Organization\u2019s work guiding the sector forward. The inaugural report is titled \u201cRethinking Tourism: From Crisis to Transformation<\/strong><\/a>\u201d, reflecting the timely relevance of the 2022 theme as well as the unprecedented crisis that hit the sector in 2020.<\/p>\n

The report charts UNWTO\u2019s work uniting the sector in the face of crisis, leading tourism\u2019s response and laying the foundations for a more inclusive and resilient future, with updates on work in every global region as well as in key areas including gender equality, sustainability and climate action, tourism governance and investments and innovation.<\/p>\n

UNWTO Delivers Guidelines to G20<\/h2>\n

On the eve of World Tourism Day, UNWTO also presented the\u00a0G20 Guidelines on Strengthening MSMEs and Communities as Agents of Transformation in Tourism<\/strong>\u00a0on the occasion of the\u00a0G20 Tourism Ministers Meeting in Bali<\/strong>. The Guidelines provide guidance for key policies that can create resilient and sustainable MSMEs and communities around the pillars of human capital, innovation, youth and women empowerment, climate action, and policy, governance and investments. They also draw up over\u00a040 cases studies from G20 members\u00a0<\/a>and guest countries focused on the promotion of MSMEs and communities.<\/p>\n

Joining UNWTO in Bali for the World Tourism Day celebrations were Ministers of Tourism of Indonesia, as well as of the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Republic of Korea, Fiji, Spain, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, alongside the Vice Ministers of Tourism for Cambodia and Japan and high-level representatives from Germany, Canada and the United States of America.<\/p>\n

First published at TravelCommunication.net – Global Travel News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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