UN Tourism opens calls for Best Tourism Villages 2024
UN Tourism has opened applications for the 2024 edition of its Best Tourism Villages initiative. Over the past three editions, UN Tourism – the new name of the World Tourism Organization…
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Empowering women in tourism put center stage
The shared progress being made in putting women’s empowerment ‘center stage’ of tourism’s restart has been presented at the World Travel Market in London. With the pandemic having made clear…
Imperative to rebuild tourism in safe, equitable and climate-friendly manner: UN secretary-general
As part of the wider UN response to COVID-19, the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres released a thematic brief on the impact the pandemic has had on tourism
Accor to eliminate single-use plastics in guest experience by 2022
Accor has announced its commitment to join the UN Global Tourism Plastics Initiative and to remove all single-use plastic items in guest experience from its hotels by the end of 2022.
Cruise news: Blue World Voyages gets ready to set sail and more
On our cruise radar this week, Blue World Voyages announces sailing in 2021, Nordic ports unite to work on environmental challenges, World Dream presents Alice's Christmas Wonderland and…
UN Aviation Agency moves forward on climate action
The Assembly of the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has approved, by a solid majority, moving forward with the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for…
Heroes Wanted: Travel the world, save the planet
The 'Oceania' expedition, a scientific audio-visual project, is looking for young adventurers to help save the world.
Gulf Air features UN videos on inflight entertainment
Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, will feature United Nations’ (UN) award-winning series of short feature stories - ‘UN in Action’, that reports on the organization’s…
