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| Friday, 23 January 2004 |
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ST-EP to focus on poverty alleviation through tourism Sustainable Tourism - Eliminating Poverty ST-EP is an initiative to provide a new framework to link the emerging practice of sustainable tourism with the paramount global challenge of poverty elimination. It is spearheaded by WTO - as the international agency responsible for tourism development in close collaboration with UNCTAD the agency concerned with the world's poorest countries and hopefully involving other interested parties. It is being framed to respond to the global context of an evolving world order - where developing states and sustainability are becoming focal points in international trade and aid policies; where social issues are becoming the great priority in triple bottom line sustainability and where poverty alleviation is becoming the overriding concern of the international community. It reflects the World Tourism Organization's commitment to build on its Global Code of Ethics recognised by the UN Assembly to incorporate the same fundamental drivers for Developing States, sustainability and, poverty elimination into a framework called liberalisation with a human face. ST-EP is one manifestation. It is a mechanism to raise substantial sums of money to drive new research and on the ground programs. Programs which will advance sustainable tourism and attack poverty. The UN's Millennium Development Goals and the WTO Global Code of Ethics will be integrated into the goals of the ST-EP Foundation and inculcated at the heart of both research and operational framework, but the single point of focus will be the link between Sustainable Tourism and Poverty Elimination. While the ST-EP framework will be spearheaded by WTO and UNCTAD, it will require buy in and involvement from donors and stakeholders - the private sector, government and civil society. (WTO) |
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