UNWTO’s crisis response

UNWTO’s emergency response portal www.SOS.travel  provides a link for the entire tourism sector, destinations and ultimately consumers.

This portal tracks all kinds of major natural and manmade disasters – weather, pandemic, terrorism and the like. It is based on state of the art technology provided by UNWTO’s partner Microsoft.
In October, UNWTO launched a response approach to the current economic challenges and constituted a Resilience Committee. After a global assessment of the impact that the global economic downturn is having in tourism at the 2008 Ministers’ Summit (London, UK, 11 November), regional response groups will look at the short and long term challenges facing the sector and its constructive role within the global economy. The first UNWTO Regional Conference focused on the Middle East and Mediterranean region (Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, 23-24 November).
The first full meeting of UNWTO’s Resilience Committee will be held at the end of January 2009 on the occasion of the International Tourism Fair FITUR (Madrid, Spain).

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