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Bridging the gap between tourism & aviation policies UNWTO & WTM MINISTERS’ SUMMIT
As part of World Travel Market’s Ministers’ Programme, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) works in partnership with WTM to host the UNWTO & WTM Ministers’ Summit. For the fourth year running, the summit brought together both private and public sectors to discuss the future of the travel and tourism industry.
This year’s summit asked how the gap between tourism and aviation policies could be bridged, and addressed the following key points: • How can air transport and tourism policies be brought closer together? • The opportunities and challenges facing air transport development – infrastructure, taxes, visa facilitation and regulations. • Obstacles and success factors.
The summit kicked off with opening remarks from Simon Press, Senior Exhibition Director WTM, and Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General, UNWTO. In recent years, visas and entry formalities and the existing procedures to obtain them were identified as a major barrier in front of the healthy growth of tourism, said Mr Rifai. Whilst much progress has been made, most recently by the G20 this November, Mr Rifai explained that the industry must look beyond entry formalities and at the broader concept of travel facilitation and connectivity.
Other panellists debated that by 2030, UNWTO forecasts that international tourists will hit a record 1.8 billion. With the growth of air transport intrinsically linked to expansion in travel and tourism, the industry must continue to work to break down the barriers to growth, to the benefit of the economy as a whole.
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