Sustainability, Outdoor, Tourism, and Adventures

 Ciao!! Today our beloved Venice is turning 1600. So, with all my heart and my best wishes, I post today some reflections about tourism and sustainability.  The topic is still WTO. Do you remember the last post? ;-) Here if you missed it! As an integral part of the UN system WTO has adopted Agenda 2030, focusing on the sustainability of the tourism sector. The same can be said for the Sustainable Development Program applied to tourism (See my post here for a quick summary). Agenda 2030 has become a key text for sustainable development. In conjunction with the 17 goals of Millennium Development, articulated in 169 targets, it should lead to a development that reduces poverty, inequality, and that mitigates climate change, where possible by triggering the reversibility of changes already in process. They represent sets of integrated and transformative measures. Tourism requires the same transformative and adaptive processes, and it is expressly referred to in the targets of...

 Ciao! As spring approaches, we continue our virtual tour of International Organizations and sustainable tourism.  After the first tip about the World Tourism Organization (WTO) today I devote a second short short post to this IO you cannot really neglect! The structure of the WTO in comparable to that of most of the intergovernmental international organizations: a secretariat, an executive council, a general assembly, and specialized committees. The secretariat is responsible for implementing programs and meeting the needs of members and affiliates. The secretariat team is headed by a Secretary General, who currently is Zurab Pololikashvili, and it is located in Madrid. There is also a branch office in Osaka, Japan, which is a support office for the Asia-Pacific area, and which is financially supported by the Japanese government. The secretariat also has an office in Geneva which acts as a liaison with the UN system, with the International Trade Organization and as a di...