Ecotourism, the key to sustainable development

The World Tourism Organization (WTO) will officially celebrate the World Tourism Day on September 27, 2002, in Costa Rica.

The selected theme for this day is "Ecotourism, the key to sustainable development", with the aim of supporting the declaration by the United Nation General Assembly of the year 2002 as the International Year of Ecotourism and recognise the importance of tourism and particularly ecotourism in sustainable development, as has been recognised in the World Ecotourism Summit that took place in May in Quebec and in the publication on sustainable tourism and the relief of poverty that the WTO launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development recently held in Johannesburg.

The WTO has expressed in a press release that a year after the terrorist attacks on the 11th of September 2001, with some exceptions in the politically unstable regions, tourism is firmly back on the road towards recovery and growth.

Datum: 10/09/2002

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