Sustainable tourism promotes socioeconomic development and environmental and cultural preservation.
We seek to promote tourism that creates opportunities for socioeconomic growth while empowering underserved populations such as women, youth, and minorities, protecting the environment, and promoting the region’s rich biodiversity and cultural heritage.
We are working to improve public-private sector partnerships that lead to increased investment and job opportunities for low-income and vulnerable populations, bring infrastructure and businesses up to modern environmental standards, and enhance a tourism value chain that sustainably harnesses natural and cultural resources.
We help increase tourism’s economic benefits and contribution to the local economies.
We strengthen the distribution of tourism benefits to the most vulnerable social groups.
We improve environmental and climate management in tourism.
We enhance the national and regional tourism governance frameworks.
We strengthen the tourism sector’s capacity to manage crises (related to health, safety, and natural disasters).
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