The assembly, held with the assist of the Division of Territorial Planning of the Basque Authorities below the theme “Advancing Sustainable City Tourism: growing instruments for selling good practices in cities”, gathered consultants from UN companies, worldwide organizations, representatives of nationwide, regional and native governments, academia and the non-public sector. The Consultants Group explored how the sector can contribute to the creation of extra inclusive, protected, resilient and sustainable cities and communities, in addition to addressing the challenges round city tourism.
Representatives from Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bilbao, Genoa, Medellin, Porto, Valencia, Venice, in addition to the Basque Nation, shared their insurance policies and practices fostering information trade and alternatives for mutual collaboration. From the UN Tourism and UN-Habitat intersection of mandates, completely different views concerning the position of tourism as a contributor to the social, financial, environmental, and cultural sustainability of the cities have been delivered to the talk.
Representatives of UNESCO (United Nations Instructional, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme and the (OECD) Group for Financial Co-operation and Growth have been additionally half to the assembly and shared their imaginative and prescient and experiences in a subject that brings collectively cities, tourism, territories, financial system, atmosphere, tradition and heritage.
Targets and outcomes of the Skilled Group Assembly
The consultants assembly centered on:
- Figuring out present challenges for sustainable city tourism.
- Understanding the position of tourism within the City Agenda.
- Trying into the most recent traits and ongoing initiatives, insurance policies and plans on city tourism.
- Exploring how modern approaches may contribute to selling sustainable tourism in city contexts and territories.
- Exploring methods to combine a sustainable city tourism strategy into insurance policies and plans in city and territorial settings.
Subsequent Steps within the International City Agenda
The Skilled Group Assembly takeaways will deepen the work of each UN Businesses on advancing sustainable and resilient cities and territories and can serve to information regional and native governments and different stakeholders in figuring out the important thing challenges going through city tourism in an effort to transfer in the direction of sustainability of their contexts, offering them with instruments and proposals to handle them.
The conclusions from the assembly can even serve to arrange the discussions and occasions on sustainable city tourism on the twelfth World City Discussion board (WUF 12) in November 2024 in Cairo, Egypt and the Mayors Discussion board for Sustainable City Tourism, led by UN Tourism.
