Message from Mr. Taleb Rifai, Secretary Basic of World Tourism Group
Message from Mr. Taleb Rifai, Secretary Basic of World Tourism Group
Message from Mr. Taleb Rifai, Secretary Basic of World Tourism Group
(VTR) – In 2017, the theme of World Tourism Day (27/9) is “Sustainable Tourism – A Instrument for Improvement”, which emphasizes the function and contribution of tourism in constructing future. It brings hope, prosperity and understanding to so many lives and livelihoods all around the world. Vietnam Tourism Overview want to public the message from Mr. Taleb Rifai, Secretary Basic of World Tourism Group.
“Sustainable Tourism – a Instrument for Improvement”
Tourism is in the present day the third largest export trade on the planet after chemical compounds and fuels. It brings hope, prosperity and understanding to so many lives and livelihoods all around the world.
Final 12 months alone, 1.235 million travellers crossed worldwide borders in a single single 12 months. By 2030, this 1.2 billion will grow to be 1.8 billion.
The query, as we rejoice World Tourism Day 2017, is how we are able to allow this highly effective world transformative power, these 1.8 billion alternatives, to contribute to make this world a greater place and to advance sustainable growth in all its 5 pillars:
1. Financial: yielding inclusive development;
2. Social: bringing respectable jobs and empowering communities;
3. Environmental: preserving and enriching the surroundings and addressing local weather change;
4. Cultural: celebrating and preserving variety, identification, and tangible and intangible tradition, and
5. Peace: as a necessary prerequisite for growth and progress.
The UN Basic Meeting declared 2017 because the Worldwide 12 months of Sustainable Tourism for Improvement. It is a distinctive alternative for all of us to come back collectively to advertise the contribution of journey and tourism as a grand twenty first century human exercise, to construct a greater future for folks, planet, peace and prosperity.
This World Tourism Day, everytime you journey, wherever you journey, bear in mind to:
RESPECT NATURE,
RESPECT CULTURE,
RESPECT YOUR HOST.
You could be the change you wish to see on the planet.
You could be an envoy for a greater future.
TRAVEL, ENJOY AND RESPECT.
Blissful World Tourism Day!
