The dedication of the World Tourism Group (UNWTO) to transferring nearer to its Members and being on the bottom in each area has been additional demonstrated via confirmed plans for 2 new Regional Workplaces.
On the twenty fifth UNWTO Common Meeting (16-20 October 2023, Samarkand, Uzbekistan), Secretary-Common Zurab Pololikashvili set out his management imaginative and prescient for the Group, together with the intention of including to the rising community of Regional and Thematic places of work. On the Meeting, Mr. Pololikashvili signed an settlement with Minister of Tourism of Brazil, Celso Sabino, to open a Regional Workplace for the Americas in Rio de Janeiro. Alongside this, UNWTO continues to work intently with the Kingdom of Morocco to determine a Regional Workplace for Africa in Marrakesh.
Reflecting the clear goals of the management imaginative and prescient for each UNWTO and the worldwide tourism sector, Regional Workplaces will concentrate on a number of of the Group’s priorities. The deliberate Regional Workplace for Africa will concentrate on the priorities of innovation and investments in tourism, whereas the Regional Workplace for the Americas may also be centered on funding. They’ll be a part of the Regional Workplace for the Center East, opened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in Might 2021, which is now a hub for tourism training and tourism for rural growth, and the UNWTO Regional workplace for Asia and the Pacific in Nara, Japan.
Secretary-Common Pololikashvili’s management imaginative and prescient for increasing and enhancing UNWTO’s presence on the bottom additionally features a dedication to new and extra various Thematic Workplaces. At the119th session of the UNWTO Government Council, additionally held in Samarkand, the Authorities of Uzbekistan introduced its proposal to determine a Thematic Workplace for Tourism on the Silk Street within the metropolis of Samarkand.
Moreover, after efficiently unblocking stalled plans to maneuver on from UNWTO’s house for greater than 50 years, the Secretary-Common used the event of the Common Meeting to report that the Spanish Authorities is now set to start out work on a brand new headquarters in Madrid. Works are anticipated to conclude within the first semester of 2025.
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