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The United Nations World Tourism Organization or UN Tourism (formerly UNWTO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations which promotes responsible, sustainable and universally-accessible tourism. Its headquarters are in Madrid , Spain.
The UN Tourism (formerly United Nations World Tourism Organization, UNWTO) was established in 1974 in Madrid, Spain, to replace the International Union of Official Tourist Publicity Organizations (IUOTPO). UNWTO has 160 member states and 350 affiliated members representing private organizations, educational institutions, and others.
The United States Travel and Tourism Administration (USTTA) operated the country's official travel and tourism offices worldwide. It was established in 1981 by the National Tourism Policy Act , succeeding the United States Travel Service in its role of promoting travel to the United States. [ 1 ]
The organisation was established in 1983 as the Tourism Council of the South Pacific (TCSP). [6] In 1985 the European Economic Community provided the council with US$2.6 million to establish a joint marketing strategy, promote tourism, and study its impacts. [7]
International tourism is tourism that crosses national borders. Globalisation has made tourism a popular global leisure activity. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes". [ 1 ]
The new activities led to the creation of the World Travel & Tourism Human Resources Centre in Vancouver and the World Travel & Tourism Taxation Policy Centre in the United States. [5] In 1997, the WTTC organised the first Global Travel and Tourism Summit in Vilamoura, Portugal. [4] Membership in the organisation reached 100 the same year. [4]
ETC was established in Stalheim, Norway, during an excursion of the 1948 Congress of the International Union of Official Travel Organizations (IUOTO).ETC became IUOTO's regional commission for Europe in line with the latter's aim “to promote, in a technical and entirely non-political manner, freedom of travel, so as to strengthen peace and mutual understanding between the nations of the ...
The Jeju Tourism Organization (JTO; Korean: 제주관광공사) is a public company associated with Jeju Special Self-Governing Province in South Korea. It is tasked with promoting Jeju Island's tourism industry domestically and internationally.