{"id":749,"date":"2011-10-05T09:18:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T09:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/2011\/10\/05\/tourism-an-important-force-to-reduce-poverty-and-foster-global-solidarity-un\/"},"modified":"2011-10-05T09:18:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T09:18:02","slug":"tourism-an-important-force-to-reduce-poverty-and-foster-global-solidarity-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/tourism-an-important-force-to-reduce-poverty-and-foster-global-solidarity-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism an important force to reduce poverty and foster global solidarity \u2013 UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top United Nations officials stressed the importance of tourism in  reducing poverty and linking countries through tolerance and solidarity  as they marked World Tourism Day. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ban called for the incorporation of the Global Code of Ethics  for Tourism, a set of principles adopted by the UN to guide tourism  stakeholders into sustainable and responsible tourism development. <\/p>\n<p>The UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Secretary General, Taleb  Rifai, also stressed the importance of the code in his message saying  that tourism growth brings serious responsibilities to minimize any  potentially negative impacts on the cultural assets and heritage of  mankind. <\/p>\n<p>Celebrated annually on 27 September, World Tourism Day serves to  raise awareness among the international community of the importance of  tourism and the contributions it can make in the economic, political and  social sectors, and how it can help towards achieving the Millennium  Development Goals (MDGs). <\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s main celebrations are being held in Aswan, Egypt, with  many other events taking place around the world. As part of the  celebrations, industry leaders, academics and the media will take part  in a think-tank discussion that will address the role of tourism in  building understanding and tolerance worldwide. <\/p>\n<p>UNWTO also launched a photo competition offering a trip to Egypt as  its prize and its first-ever Twitter competition, asking people to tweet  on how tourism can help link cultures.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Article originally published at www.uncsd2012.org<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top United Nations officials stressed the importance of tourism in reducing poverty and linking countries through tolerance and solidarity as they marked World Tourism Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsummit2012.stakeholderforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}