Travel News Europe - #75 - July&August 2007 - (Page 1)

TRAVEL NEWS EUROPE The information you need to make decisions July/August 2007 Issue 75 NEWS I INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS & RESORTS INCREASES ITS ITALIAN PRESENCE I PAFOS APHRODITE FESTIVAL PRESENTS VERDI’S “IL TROVATORE” I QATAR AIRWAYS LAUNCHES FLIGHTS TO GENEVA I SUSTAINABLE TOURISM IN EASTERN EUROPE BRITISH AIRWAYS FAMILY DEAL DESTINATIONS Japan page 11 Hong Kong page 14 T Thailand page 16 BUSINESS Car Hire Exhibitions page 19 page 20 ourism’s performance in Europe over the past three years has exceeded expectations, according to the UNWTO. The Organization reported that the Baltic States were the region’s top performers. High performances from the region mean that the UNWTO’s long-term forecast of 4% yearly growth until 2020 is likely to be matched or even exceeded in Europe, assuming that GDP growth is maintained. Lithuania in particular has enjoyed a considerable increase from both arrivals and receipts within Central and Eastern Europe. “This strong economic performance in Central and Eastern Europe goes hand in hand with the increasing recognition of ensuring sustainable growth in its environmental, social and economic dimensions,” a UNWTO release said, “based on solid institutional and management structures.” The above issues were discussed during the International Seminar on ‘Sustainable Development of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe”, which was organised by the UNWTO and held in Lithuania earlier this year. More than 200 participants from 20 European countries attended the event, ranging from tourism policy makers, managers at national, regional and destination levels, private sector and academia representatives. Policy-makers sustainable tourism. The challenge for policy-makers lies in managing the increasing development pressure in the area, which might pose a threat to natural and cultural resources.” Conclusions Sustainable tourism development has gained great importance over recent years, with most countries embracing the concept and finding ways to include it in their national policies. The UNWTO considers the need for policy-makers to regard the Travel & Tourism sector as a social activity, which cross-related to vital sectors of the economy, with important implications and effects on areas such as employment, transport or infrastructure. “Therefore the general sustainability approach should also be streamlined into tourism policies,” said a UNWTO release, “bearing in mind the steady growth of tourism in the coming years.” “This favourable inbound and revenue perspective should foster the initiative to further develop the natural and cultural resources of Central and Eastern Europe,” it continued. “These assets represent a basis for Sustainability, as described by the UNWTO, is a balance between environmental, economic and social aspects, which has to be built on a set of institutional and management structures. This creates a solid institutional framework, which in itself is a long-term process, and is a necessary condition to reach sustainability objectives. The UNWTO seminar concluded that “there is a need not to repeat past mistakes from developments in other parts of Europe, where the short-term perspectives of increasing revenues prevented sound planning and protection, hence making a sustainable approach much more difficult or even less likely. In this regard, the European Union’s Tourism Sustainability Group, also supported by UNWTO, has set out a policy and action framework in order to make tourism more sustainable in the region.” I

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Travel News Europe - #75 - July&August 2007

Cover&Contents
NEWS
- INTERCONTINENTAL HOTELS & RESORTS INCREASES ITS ITALIAN PRESENCE
- PAFOS APHRODITE FESTIVAL PRESENTS VERDI’S “IL TROVATORE”
- QATAR AIRWAYS LAUNCHES FLIGHTS TO GENEVA
- BRITISH AIRWAYS FAMILY DEAL
DESTINATIONS
- Japan
- Hong Kong
- Thailand
BUSINESS
- Car Hire
- Exhibitions

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