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Jules Verne, visionary of underwater and space travel, ‘hosts’ UN tourism day

27 September 2005
From Madeira to Vladivostok and Latvia to Argentina, festivals, exhibitions and concerts marked United Nations World Tourism Day (WTD) today with a tip of the hat to the great French visionary and writer Jules Verne and the whimsical prospect of space as humankind’s final tourist frontier.

UN agency launches Internet tool to help developing states reap profits of tourism

20 September 2005
In a bid to help the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) fully benefit from one of their major income earners – their tourism appeal – a United Nations development agency has launched an Internet tool enabling them to sell online services that are now the preserve of foreign-based firms that repatriate much of the profits.

UN agencies team up to promote eco-friendly, development-oriented tourism

7 September 2005
With massive growth in tourism predicted in the coming years, two United Nations agencies have teamed up to produce a set of guidelines to help governments around the world to promote a sustainable tourism that spreads prosperity while avoiding harm to the environment and local communities.