Spreading peace through tourism
International Council of Tourism Partners presents Visionary Award to IIPT founder
At the World Travel Market (WMT) in London, the President of the International Council of Tourism Partners (ICTP), Geoffrey Lipman, presented the ICTP Visionary Award to Louis D'Amore, President and Founder of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT). Mr. D’Amore received the award at the IIPT Climate Change seminar held at WTM yesterday.
Mr. Lipman said: “I have known Louis for 30 years. He is a true visionary and works tirelessly to spread his vision around the world for peace through tourism. He is so richly deserving of this award.”
Louis D’Amore has been instrumental in promoting the travel and tourism industry as the world’s first “Global Peace Industry” since the founding of IIPT in 1986. In 1992, following the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio Summit), he developed the world’s first Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Sustainable Tourism for the Canadian tourism industry. He also conducted the world’s first international study on Codes of Conduct and best practices in Sustainable Tourism for the United Nations.
The International Institute for Peace through Tourism is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to fostering and facilitating tourism initiatives which contribute to international understanding and cooperation, an improved quality of environment, the preservation of heritage, and through these initiatives, helping to bring about a peaceful and sustainable world. It is based on a vision of the world's largest industry, travel and tourism - becoming the world's first global peace industry, and the belief that every traveler is potentially an "Ambassador for Peace.”
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Today world peace is victim of conflicts ranging from geographical to conceptual and from political to religious. Agonies of humans are growing multidimensional and one of the reason rather core reason of such financial, political and social unrest is lack of “Oneness” and absence of “Interfaith Harmony” from societies. Achieving harmony among races, cultures, continents and religions is a major issue for individuals and groups that feel pain for millions of poor, powerless, homeless and hopeless people around the world. Meeting each other, living together for some time helps to understand each other and Tourism has always been an important tool for such meetings. Tourism since long works as modality of brining harmony among people and exposure of East to West was historically became possible through tourists. TRI attempts to bring about peace, harmony, tolerance and ONENESS through The Region Initiative. It will not only develop and promote tourism in the region rather it also attempts to achieve more harmony and peace in the region. This region is very diversify not in races but also in believes comprising believers of Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, Agnosticism and Atheism. Bridging South Asia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe is the perfect attempt Oneness brings Peace.
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