The 23rd session of the UNWTO General Assembly officially adopted the International Convention on Tourism Ethics. This is a big step forward as UNWTO works to make the global tourism sector fairer, more ethical and more transparent.
This treaty will be open to signature by member states from October 16th. Pascal Lamy, the Chair of the World Committee of Tourism Ethics, who has long been been advocating the transformation of the existing code of ethics of tourism said : ” In the name of the Committee, I can only congratulate the countries who took this historic decision to elevate ethics of tourism into a binding legal instrument. Globalisation needs to be harnessed by principles that make it better, not worse, for human kind”
