{"id":16136,"date":"2023-10-21T06:39:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T01:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16136"},"modified":"2025-04-03T22:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T17:06:15","slug":"unwto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/unwto\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0United Nations agency\u00a0responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.<\/li>\n<li>Functions: It serves as a global forum for tourism policy issues and encourages the implementation of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism.<\/li>\n<li>It was established in 1975.<\/li>\n<li>Members:\u00a0Membership of the UNWTO\u00a0includes 159 countries.<\/li>\n<li>Official languages: The official languages of UNWTO are\u00a0Arabic,\u00a0Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.<\/li>\n<li>Organisation structure:\n<ul>\n<li>General Assembly: It is the principal gathering of the World Tourism Organization. It is composed of full members and associate members. It meets\u00a0every two years.<\/li>\n<li>Executive Council: It is UNWTO&#8217;s governing board. It is composed of 35 members elected by the General Assembly in a ratio of one for every five full members. It meets at least twice a year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Headquarter: Madrid, Spain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Best Tourism Villages initiative<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was launched in 2021 by UNWTO.<\/li>\n<li>It is part of the\u00a0UNWTO Tourism for Rural Development Programme.<\/li>\n<li>The programme works to foster development and inclusion in rural areas, combat depopulation, advance innovation and value chain integration through tourism and encourage sustainable practices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the United Nations?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and cooperation among member countries. The United Nations works on a wide range of issues, including diplomacy, humanitarian aid, human rights, and sustainable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1969375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM hails Gujarat&#8217;s Dhordo for being awarded as Best Tourism Village by UNWTO<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}