Definition of tourism organization

The World Tourism Organization is an intergovernmental international tourism organization of the United Nations system. Its predecessor was the International Official Tourism Alliance. It was renamed in 1975 and is headquartered in Madrid, the capital of Spain.

The International Official Tourism Association Congress was held in The Hague, Netherlands, from May 4 to 9, 1925. The International Alliance of Official Tourism Promotion Organizations was formally established in The Hague in 1934. The first International Congress of National Tourism Organizations was held in London from October 1st to 4th, 1946. At the Second International Conference of National Tourism Organizations held in Paris in October 1947, it was decided to formally establish the International Alliance of Official Tourism Organizations. Its headquarters is in London. It moved to Geneva in 1951 and is now located in Madrid, Spain. In 1969, the United Nations General Assembly approved its transformation into an intergovernmental organization.

The purpose of the organization is to promote and develop tourism in a manner that is conducive to economic development, international mutual understanding, peace and prosperity, and respects human rights and basic human rights regardless of race, gender, language or religious belief. free. He also emphasized that when implementing this purpose, special attention should be paid to the interests of developing countries in tourism.

Published publications include "World Tourism Organization News"; "Tourism Development Report (Policies and Trends)"; "Tourism Statistics Yearbook"; "Tourism Statistics Handbook"; "Tourism and Tourism Trends".

In May 1975, the World Tourism Organization recognized the People's Republic of China as the only legal representative of China. On October 5, 1983, the plenary session of the fifth meeting of the organization passed a resolution to admit China as a formal member of the organization and became its 106th official member. In September 1987, at the seventh plenary session, China was elected for the first time as a member of the Executive Committee of the organization, and was also elected as a member of the Statistics Committee and Vice Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Regional Committee. In 1991, he was re-elected as a member of the organization's executive committee.