Sustainable Tourism Forum
In October 2004, the World Tourism Organization
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Cultural tourism can include visits to sites like Timbuktu’s
magnificent mosques. |
and George Washington University convened a Tourism Policy Forum in Washington, D.C., to stimulate dialogue and share experiences among international tourism practitioners and assistance providers, and to evaluate sustainable tourism’s role in promoting environmentally sustainable economic growth in the developing world.
A Washington Declaration on Tourism as a Sustainable Development Strategy was released following the forum, wherein governments, international aid agencies, and the world’s leading universities agreed to make sustainable tourism development a top priority in their strategies to reduce poverty and meet other UN Millennium Development Goals, such as gender equality and environmental conservation.
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