Official Visit Sparks Agreement
UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai met Interim President Fouad Mebazaa, the Minister of Tourism Mehdi Houas, as well as representatives from the private sector to discuss the best ways to support ...
UN World Tourism Organization And Inter-American Development Bank
A cooperation program between the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which will run until the end of 2012, got underway with a Workshop on Tourism ...
Current situation for travel to and from Japan
The United Nations organizations (WHO, IAEA, UNWTO, WMO, IMO, ICAO, ILO) closely monitoring the effects of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant remain confident that radiation levels do not present ...
Tourism Become A Main Engine Of Socioeconomic Progress
Tourism is increasingly a major, if not the main, source of growth, employment, income, and revenue for many of the world’s developing countries.
West African Parks And Protected Areas
A project, designed to unlock the tourism potential of seven CPAs stretching across ten West African countries, aims to maximize tourism’s role in poverty reduction and economic development, ...
World Congress on Snow and Mountain Tourism
Mountain resort professionals, from the Alps to the Rockies, as well as Asian destinations including the Republic of Korea, will debate how snow and mountain destinations can respond to current ...
Supporting Japan After The Earthquake And Tsunami
The UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Regional Commission for Asia and the Pacific has expressed its full support and solidarity with the people of Japan in the aftermath of the recent ...
Global Tourism Forum
By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief
Never in the history of the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and, perhaps, in the history of the global travel and tourism industry, has there ever been an event where both public and private ...
Libya Has Got Tourism?
By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief
At the recently-held ITB Berlin, the world’s largest travel exhibition held yearly in Berlin, Germany, the secretary-general of the UN World Tourism Organization, Mr.
VIDEO: Gloom And Doom?
By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief
He has without a doubt one of the travel and tourism industry’s most impressive resumes.
Removing Travel Barriers
The importance of removing travel barriers to facilitate tourist flows was top of the agenda during the recent visit of UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, to Russia (Moscow, Russia, March 14, ...
Egypt and Tunisia Revolution to Tourism
By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief
In a rare display of solidarity, the tourism ministers from Egypt and Tunisia were in attendance at the press conference of the UN World Tourism Organization, which was held on March 10, 2011, at ...
Silk Road Action Plan
The first UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Silk Road Ministers’ Summit, held at ITB 2011, has concluded with commitment to enhanced cooperation to achieve the objectives of the Silk Road ...
UN World Tourism Organization
Women make up an important percentage of the tourism workforce, but more work must be done to close the wealth and skills gap between men and women employed in tourism, according to a new World ...
Egypt and Tunisia Revolution to Tourism
By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief
BERLIN (eTN) – Egypt Tourism Minister Mounir Abdul Nour has expressed his gratitude on behalf of Egyptians to Tunis Tourism Minister Mehdi Houasm because "Tunisia has led the way for the ...
Extraordinary Growth Ahead
The next ten years look set to be “the decade of travel and tourism” said UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai at the opening the ITB Travel Trade Show in Berlin, Germany, March 9-13.
World's Largest Travel Exhibition
By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief
BERLIN (eTN) - In the game of who can put on the world’s largest travel exhibition in the world, Germany’s Messe Berlin surely knows how to put the motto, “Go big or go home!” to ...
International Tourism Agenda
Tourism’s sustained growth and its capacity to tackle global challenges – from economic crises and persistent unemployment to environmental pressures and the poverty imperative – can only be ...
COME CLOSER: How Tourism Is Shaping The Future Of Nations
A new book on the importance of global tourism in the social, economic, and diplomatic development of nations was launched this week at the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Global Tourism ...
World Tourism Organization
By Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief
ANDORRA LA VELLA, Andorra (eTN) - The UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) along with host country Andorra has succeeded in bringing together a high-level delegation of travel and tourism ...
Open Letter By World Tourism Organization
The President of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, has become the first head of state to join the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) joint campaign highlighting ...
Restoring Tourism Confidence
As normality returns to Egypt and Tunisia, the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) welcomes efforts by national authorities to restore confidence among tourists and by foreign governments to ...
Pacific Asia Travel Association
BANGKOK, Thailand - Taleb Rifai, secretary-general of the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), has praised the Pacific Asia Travel Association's (PATA) significant role in the growth of the ...
UN Report
Increased investment in sustainable tourism can boost the sector’s contribution to economic growth, development, and particularly job creation, while at the same time addressing major ...
Advancing Tourism
UNWTO and Croatia have agreed to further advance sustainable tourism and maximize its contribution to economic growth, job creation, and development in the country.
Recognize Innovative Tourism Projects
Nominations are officially open for the 2011 UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Ulysses Awards.
World Tourism Organization
International tourism recovery is underway across the world.
Egypt Crisis
By Taleb Rifai, United Nations World Tourism Organization secretary-general
The United Nations World Tourism Organization is closely monitoring the rapidly evolving situation in Egypt in coordination with several public and private sector organizations through the Tourism ...
UN World Tourism Organization
UNWTO is a key partner of the recently established Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism, an initiative to connect all stakeholders working or interested in working to develop sustainable ...
World Tourism Organization
UNWTO is deeply shocked by the bomb attack at Domodedovo airport in Moscow, Russia.
