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Via Francigena – strengthening walking tourism along the cultural routes

The Via Francigena is one of the most popular pilgrimage routes in the world, spanning centuries of history and stretching along 3200 kilometres in the UK, France, Switzerland and Italy. In 1994, the route was awarded ‘Cultural Route of the Council of Europe’ status in recognition of its role in promoting common European values. The […]

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LAUNCH OF 2022 UNWTO STUDENTS LEAGUE SWITZERLAND

UNWTO and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs are launching the 2022 UNWTO Students’ League – Switzerland, an innovative environment to empower and motivate tourism and hospitality students by giving them real-time experience. Through an online competition, Students from around the world will compete to give the tourism sector their best sustainable ideas on the pressing subjects of the sector, such […]

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Online-Symposium: Human Rights and Climate Change – The Benefits of Linking Both Agendas in Tourism

Corporate responses to climate change include a broad range of business decisions – all of them have the potential to impact human rights. At the same time, human rights due diligence has great potential to support effective climate-related decision-making. Tourism as a service-oriented sector strongly depends on social responsibility and respect for human rights. Tourism […]

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World Bank Report: Tools and Policy Considerations to Support the Recovery and Resilience of the Tourism Sector

This report is part of a World Bank Group Global Engagement project that seeks to understand and respond to the impacts of COVID-19 on the global Tourism sector, and to support its recovery.The COVID-19 pandemic and the sudden demand-side contractions in travel and tourism activities during 2020 and 2021 precipitated unprecedented shocks to the entire […]

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