Sustainable Tourism Impact To Be Measured

Fiji Sun, 19 June 2018 – The United Nations World Tourism Organisation is working on ways to measure tourism’s impact on sus­tainability.

UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili said this included a strong ‘Statistical Framework for Measuring Sus­tainable Tourism’ in social, economic and environmental terms.

Mr Pololikashvili was speaking during the opening of 30th Joint Commission for joint East Asia and the Pacific-Com­mission for South Asia Meeting and Regional Seminar on Tourism, Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable De­velopment at the Sofitel Fiji Resort and Spa yesterday.

Mr Pololikashvili said this included an International Net­work of Sustainable Tourism Observatories. Read more…