UNWTO launches new carbon-neutral travel site in time for World Tourism Day 2008

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www.ClimateSolutions.travel, a web site aiming to be the central gateway for information on solutions available to help the tourism sector respond to climate change, is scheduled to be launched on World Tourism Day – Septemer 27, 2008 in Lima, Peru.

Sponsored by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), events include the International Conference on Tourism and Handcrafts as well as the World Tourism Day THINK TANK, the latter at which representative stakeholders will discuss global thinking on Tourism and Climate Change and its local applications in an open exchange.

The program is aiming to determine a more exact account of measures that can be implemented in the short and long term to adapt and utilize new technology and secure financing for the poorest countries, as well as provide coordinated sectoral input into the evolving UN System response to climate change.

“Today’s world faces two great challenges: extreme poverty and climate change. The solution to these problems requires an urgent change of behaviour in the general population. Tourism can encourage such a change through the responsible use of energy and natural resources. ” Said Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism of Peru, Mercedes Araoz

To learn more, visit ClimateSolutions.travel. The initiative is developed within the framework of UNWTO’s eTourism for Development Program of Work and the new Affiliate Public Private Partnership strategy.

About the United Nations World Tourism Organization
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO/OMT) is a specialized agency of the United ‎Nations and the leading international organization in the field of tourism. It serves as a ‎global forum for tourism policy issues and a practical source of tourism know-how.‎

UNWTO plays a central and decisive role in promoting the development of responsible, ‎sustainable and universally accessible tourism, paying particular attention to the ‎interests of developing countries.‎ The Organization encourages the implementation ‎of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism, with a view to ensuring that member ‎countries, tourist destinations and businesses maximize the positive economic, ‎social and cultural effects of tourism and fully reap its benefits, while minimizing its ‎negative social and environmental impacts.‎

Its membership includes 160 countries and territories and more than 350 Affiliate ‎Members representing the private sector, educational institutions, tourism associations ‎and local tourism authorities.‎

Direct actions that strengthen and support the efforts of National Tourism ‎Administrations are carried out by UNWTO’s regional representatives (Africa, the ‎Americas, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and South Asia) based at ‎the Headquarters in Madrid.‎

UNWTO is committed to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, geared ‎toward reducing poverty and fostering sustainable development.‎

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