Bangkok--27 Feb--eTurboNews
Milan, 26 Februar 2007/eTN The 1st International Forum on “Sustainable Development in Tourism” organised by Sk?lInternational and Sk?l International Italy, held during BIT in Milan on 24th February 2007 highlighted some important suggestions on how to recover and to further create awareness of sustainable development. Following opening speeches by the President of Sk?l International, Litsa Papathanasi and the President of Skal Italy, Sandra Biasutti, there were two key note speakers, Eugenio Yunis, Head of Sustainable Development of Tourism at UNWTO, and Arab Hoballah, Head of the Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch in UNEP. Both referred to the complexity of the subject but stressed however that if all stakeholders would assume equal responsibility, we could start seeing some positive results. The guide published by UNWTO, referred to 12 basic guidelines for sustainable development in tourism together with a suggested action plan. The role of the governments were also stressed in the sense that they were expected to cooperate with local authorities and to make the legislative changes in order to provide the platform for the private sector to perform on sustainable grounds. Both speakers referred to the role which Sk?l International is playing and recommended more ways in which the organisation could become even more involved
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