The American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) has signed the UNWTO Global Code of Ethics for Tourism at the Palau de la Generalitat (government palace) in Valencia. Mark Meader, ASTA’s senior vice ...

The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) adopted the international Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics on Wednesday 11 September 2019, in a bid to make the global tourism sector fairer ...

Appointed as Chairman of the World Committee on Tourism Ethics in 2013, Pascal Lamy has been instrumental in the process of presenting the Convention on Tourism Ethics to the 22nd UNWTO General ...

Ten years since the adoption of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism by the United Nations General Assembly, the first International Congress on Ethics & Tourism has opened in Spain. Delegates heard ...

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:Member of the World Committee on Tourism Ethics United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), I Gede Ardika, said the government should not be too calculating with ...

The tourism market is huge. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council it’s responsible for 10% of the global GDP, while the size of the travel booking industry was worth around $35 billion in ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's Executive Branch Ethics Commission fined former Tourism Commissioner Mike Cooper $2,000 on Monday in an agreement that resolved ethics charges. Cooper, who resigned in ...

For many tourists who visit Asia, riding an elephant is high on their list of “musts,” but the ethics of elephant tourism are being questioned by animal-rights groups as well as tour operators.

Credit: Getty Images. Medical tourism can raise issues of safety and quality, particularly for care that is unapproved or legally or ethically prohibited in the United States. HealthDay News — The ...

SERENITY is not a word that springs to mind when mention is made of Rwanda, where nearly 1m people were slaughtered in 1994, mostly Tutsis killed by their Hutu compatriots. Yet the serenity—of its ...