World Tourism Day
The
World Tourism Day celebration was started by the United Nations World
Tourism Organization in the year 1980 which is celebrated every year at
27th September. This particular day was selected as at this
day the laws of the UNWTO came into force in the year 1970 which is
considered as the big landmark for the global tourism as it aims to
aware to people about the significant role of the tourism inside the
international community as well as to exhibit how the social, economic,
cultural, political values are affected by it globally.
World Tourism Day 2016
World Tourism Day 2016 would be celebrated at Tuesday, on 27th of September.
This
day is celebrated every year having particular theme for making aware
the people all over the world. The theme of 2011 event celebration was
Tourism Linking Cultures and of 2012 was Tourism and Energetic
Sustainability. May be the theme of year 2013 will be highlighting the
tourism role to a brighter energy future. The day is celebrated every
year on September 27th each year aiming to aware the people about the importance of the tourism.
A
message is sent to the general public every year by the UNWTO
Secretary-General to participate in the occasion. It is celebrated with
the great interest by the various tourism enterprises, organizations,
government agencies and etc. Varieties of competitions are held at this
day such as photo competitions promoting the tourism, tourism award
presentations including free entries, discounts/special offers to the
general public.
Tourism has become the continuously growing and
developing economic sectors worldwide because of the occurrence of
various attractive and new destinations for the tourists. So it has
become the main source of income for the developing countries.
- The theme of 2015 was “Millions of tourists, millions of opportunities”.
- The theme of 2016 would be “Tourism for All – promoting universal accessibility”.
- The theme of 2017 would be “Sustainable Tourism – a tool for development”
