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Indonesia is set to host the official World Tourism Day celebration in Bali on 27 September, highlighting the shift towards tourism being recognized as a crucial pillar of development.
With the theme of ‘Rethinking Tourism’, the International Day of Observance will this year focus on re-imagining the sector’s growth, both in terms of size and relevance, reported a news agency.
The official day will be marked though all UNWTO Member States, as well as non-members and stakeholders from across the private sector, are being invited to host their own celebrations as well as to promote the day and its central theme.
The theme “Rethinking Tourism” aims to inspire the debate around rethinking tourism for development, including through education and jobs, and tourism’s impact on the planet and opportunities to grow more sustainably.
UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili said that the potential of tourism is enormous, and they have a shared responsibility to make sure it is fully realized.
On World Tourism Day 2022, UNWTO calls on everyone, from tourism workers to tourists themselves, as well as small businesses, large corporations and governments to reflect and rethink what they do and how they do it.
Tourism’s International Observance Day will put people at the centre of key discussions.
Where is tourism going? Where do we want to go? And how do we get there?
The one-day celebration will bring together stakeholders from every part of tourism’s uniquely broad value chain – from political and private sector leaders to community representatives, and youth and indigenous ambassadors.
World Tourism Day 2022 will:
World Tourism Day has been held on 27 September each year since 1980.
The date marks the anniversary of the adoption of the Statutes of the Organization in 1970, paving the way for the establishment of UNWTO five years later.
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