United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Subject – IR

Context – Telangana’s Pochampally Recognised By UNWTO among World’s Best Tourism Villages

Concept –

The UNWTO’s Best Tourism Villages Pilot initiative aims to recognise and reward villages that are great examples of rural tourism and demonstrate best practices in each of the nine evaluation areas.
It also intends to help villages increase their rural tourism potential by providing training and access to improvement possibilities.

World Tourism Organization

The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations tasked with promoting responsible, sustainable, and universally accessible tourism.
Its headquarters are in Madrid, Spain.
It is the world’s leading international tourist organisation, promoting tourism as a driver of economic growth, inclusive development, and environmental sustainability, as well as providing industry leadership and support in the advancement of knowledge and tourism policy around the world.
UNWTO encourages the implementation of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism, to maximize tourism’s socio-economic contribution while minimizing its possible negative impacts.
India became a member of the UNWTO in 1975. The nodal agency in India that works with the UNWTO is the Ministry of Tourism.