Improved economic conditions boost air-traveller numbers worldwide
A record 4.1 billion passengers took to the skies in 2017 onboard some 37 million scheduled flights globally, the United Nations civil aviation agency...
Second Sudanese National Conference on Inclusive Education
On 17 December 2017, the UNESCO Khartoum Office in collaboration with the Ministry of Education (MoE), Ministry of Social Welfare, the National Council for...
New Report: Export controls, human security and cyber-surveillance technology
A new report released today from SIPRI, ‘Export controls, human security and cyber-surveillance technology: Examining the proposed changes to the EU Dual-use Regulation’.
The report...
Sustainable Tourism: A roadmap towards 2030
Participants from around the world joined the Official Closing ceremony of the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017 at the Palace of...
UNWTO appoints First Lady of Iceland as Special Ambassador for Tourism and the SDGs
H.E. Ms. Eliza Jean Reid, First Lady of Iceland has been nominated as Special Ambassador for Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The...
UNWTO promotes the role of media as advocates of wildlife tourism
Nearly 30 journalists have convened in Kasane, Botswana to debate the role of the media in advocating sustainable tourism and wildlife conservation as its...
Unlocking the potential of tourism and culture for development
Strengthening cooperation between the tourism and culture sectors to boost prosperity and enhance heritage protection is the topic of the 2nd Global Conference on...
African tourism leaders debate the role of the sector as a tool for inclusive growth and community engagement
The potential of Tourism in poverty alleviation and to induce transformative change has been addressed in Lusaka, capital city of Zambia, in the World...
With access to clean, modern energy, poorer countries look to power ahead through innovation
Energy is key to global development, but the world’s poorest and most vulnerable nations fare up to six times worse than their more industrialized...
Yemen facing largest famine the world has seen for decades
Yemen will be gripped by famine – one the likes of which the world has not seen in years – if the blockade on...