Promoting innovation, job creation and sustainability are key considerations for the 15th World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Awards. UNWTO invites submissions until 31 October 2018.
Madrid, Spain, 14
August 2018 – Promoting innovation, job creation and sustainability are
key considerations for the 15th World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
Awards. UNWTO invites submissions until 31 October 2018.
The UNWTO Awards
recognise the contribution of public and private institutions and NGOs
to development of a more competitive, responsible and sustainable
tourism sector that works towards achieving the 2030 Sustainable
Development Agenda of the United Nations. Initiatives at local,
national, regional and international levels are all considered.
Applications are now
open for the UNWTO Awards in Public Policy and Governance, in
Enterprises, and in Non-Governmental Organizations. Interested parties
are encouraged to apply before 31 October 2018 (23:59 CET). Finalists
will be notified in December 2018, with the award winners to be
announced in January 2019.
A further award, the UNWTO
Ethics Award will also be announced in January 2019. The Award takes
applications from signatories of the Private Sector Commitment to the
Global Code of Ethics for Tourism, which is UNWTO’s flagship set of
guidelines for a tourism sector built on ethical and responsible
principles for sustainability. The call for applications for the UNWTO
Ethics Award will be announced soon.
Since their creation the
UNWTO Awards have recognized more than 70 institutions, with 2017 seeing
128 applications received. Winners in 2017 included Turismo de
Portugal, the Mangalajodi Ecotourism Trust of India, Indonesian booking
platform Triponyu.com and Spain’s state tourism innovation society
SEGITTUR.
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