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Between 31st January and 5th February 2010, Seychelles hosted World Wetlands Week under the theme “Wetlands connects life & culture”. This important event, under the umbrella of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, commenced with an opening ceremony attended by international and local dignitaries at the ICCS, Victoria on 1st February. A Memorandum of Cooperation between UNWTO and the Ramsar Secretariat was signed during the event. The signing of this MOC provides an...

In the context of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC, this side event, organized jointly by UNWTO and the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), presented the actions taken so far by the travel ant tourism sector in response to climate change.

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In the run up to the Copenhagen Agreement, UNWTO, European Commission (ETC) and VisitSweden co-organized the Tourism and Travel in the Green Economy Symposium held from 14 to 15 September in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was convened as part of the Davos Process on climate change and tourism to address the issue of how climate change is shaping sustainable consumption and production and what it means for the tourism sector.

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Co-organized by UNWTO, UNEP and PAP/RAC, the seminar “Coastal Tourism in the Mediterranean: Adapting to Climate Change” was held from 8 to 10 June in Cagliari (Italy) as part of the capacity building program on climate change adaptation and mitigation, undertaken by UNWTO in the framework of the Davos process on climate change.

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Under the banner “Egypt on the Way to a Sustainable Destination”, the conference addressed the question not whether and when to make tourism more sustainable, but how to take the first steps now. As a result, a common declaration was signed by the Egyptian Minister of Tourism, the CEO of Orascom Hotels & Development and the official representatives of the UNWTO, UNEP and the IH&RA outlining that Egypt, as a tourism destination, will use and implement the Global...