Over the previous three editions, UN Tourism – the brand new title of the World Tourism Group (UNWTO) – acquired virtually 600 purposes from practically 100 international locations. At present, the UN Tourism Greatest Tourism Villages Community brings collectively 186 members globally, comprising 129 acknowledged as Greatest Tourism Villages and 57 villages collaborating within the Improve Programme. Collectively, they characterize 55 international locations throughout 5 world areas.
Greatest Tourism Villages by UN Tourism” acknowledges these rural locations the place tourism is being successfully embraced as a chance or as a software for sustainable development or for preserving distinctive cultural and pure heritage. For the 2024 version, we stay up for seeing extra examples of tourism as a drive for good. UN Tourism Secretary-Normal, Zurab Pololikashvili
Purposes welcome
UN Tourism Member States are invited to submit as much as eight candidate villages by their Nationwide Tourism Administrations (NTAs). Purposes are open till 24 April 2024, with the chosen villages introduced within the third quarter of the 12 months.
An exterior impartial Advisory Board, comprising specialists in numerous fields, evaluates purposes primarily based on 9 areas: 1. Cultural and Pure Assets; 2. Promotion and Conservation of Cultural Assets; 3. Financial Sustainability; 4. Social Sustainability; 5. Environmental Sustainability; 6. Tourism Improvement and Worth Chain Integration; 7. Governance and Prioritization of Tourism; 8. Infrastructure and Connectivity, and 9. Well being, Security and Safety.
Rising tourism for rural improvement
The “Greatest Tourism Villages by UN Tourism” initiative, launched in 2021, seeks to remodel tourism right into a catalyst for rural prosperity and wellbeing. The initiative takes a dual-pronged strategy: valuing and preserving rural villages, their landscapes, cultural variety, and data techniques, and advancing modern methods aligned with the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs).
The initiative contains three integral parts:
- The “Greatest Tourism Villages by UN Tourism” initiative acknowledges excellent examples of rural tourism locations with cultural and pure property, that protect and promote rural and community-based values, merchandise and way of life and have a transparent dedicated to innovation and sustainability. Choice is predicated on an analysis of their sources and initiatives in 9 areas masking the three pillars of sustainable improvement, i.e., financial, social and environmental.
- The “Greatest Tourism Villages by UN Tourism “Improve Programme”” advantages candidates that don’t totally meet the standards to acquire recognition. These villages obtain help from UN Tourism and companions to deal with the gaps recognized within the analysis course of.
- The “Greatest Tourism Villages by UN Tourism” Community offers an area for exchanging experiences and good practices and alternatives. It consists of representatives of the Greatest Tourism Village in addition to from the Improve Programme and advantages from the contributions of specialists, private and non-private sector companions engaged within the promotion of tourism for rural improvement. Since its inception, the Greatest Tourism Villages Community has organized a sequence of coaching periods and masterclasses, reaching a whole bunch of individuals.
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About UN Tourism
The World Tourism Group (UN Tourism) is the United Nations company chargeable for the promotion of accountable, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.
Because the main worldwide group within the discipline of tourism, UN Tourism promotes tourism as a driver of financial development, inclusive improvement and environmental sustainability and affords management and help to the sector in advancing data and tourism insurance policies worldwide.
Our Priorities
Mainstreaming tourism within the world agenda: Advocating the worth of tourism as a driver of socio-economic development and improvement, its inclusion as a precedence in nationwide and worldwide insurance policies and the necessity to create a stage taking part in discipline for the sector to develop and prosper.
Selling sustainable tourism improvement: Supporting sustainable tourism insurance policies and practices: insurance policies which make optimum use of environmental sources, respect the socio-cultural authenticity of host communities and supply socio-economic advantages for all.
Fostering data, training and capability constructing: Supporting international locations to evaluate and deal with their wants in training and coaching, in addition to offering networks for data creation and change.
Enhancing tourism competitiveness: Enhancing UN Tourism Members’ competitiveness by data creation and change, human sources improvement and the promotion of excellence in areas resembling coverage planning, statistics and market tendencies, sustainable tourism improvement, advertising and marketing and promotion, product improvement and threat and disaster administration.
Advancing tourism’s contribution to poverty discount and improvement: Maximizing the contribution of tourism to poverty discount and attaining the SDGs by making tourism work as a software for improvement and selling the inclusion of tourism within the improvement agenda.
Constructing partnerships: Partaking with the personal sector, regional and native tourism organizations, academia and analysis establishments, civil society and the UN system to construct a extra sustainable, accountable and aggressive tourism sector.
Our Construction
Members: An intergovernmental group, UN Tourism has 160 Member States, 6 Affiliate Members, 2 Observers and over 500 Affiliate Members.
Organs: The Normal Meeting is the supreme organ of the Group. The Government Council take all measures, in session with the Secretary-Normal, for the implementation of the selections and proposals of the Normal Meeting and experiences to the Meeting.
Secretariat: UN Tourism headquarters are primarily based in Madrid, Spain. The Secretariat is led by the Secretary-Normal and arranged into departments masking points resembling sustainability, training, tourism tendencies and advertising and marketing, sustainable improvement, statistics and the Tourism Satellite tv for pc Account (TSA), vacation spot administration, ethics and threat and disaster administration. The Technical Cooperation and Silk Street Division carries out improvement initiatives in over 100 international locations worldwide, whereas the Regional Departments for Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Center East function the hyperlink between UN Tourism and its 160 Member States. The Affiliate Members Division represents UN Tourism’s 500 plus Affiliate members.
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