This new version of the Sustainable Tourism Charter, marking the 30th anniversary of its first drafting, brings together a series of fundamental principles aimed at transforming tourism into a truly responsible and sustainable activity. These principles serve as a guide to create a balance between enjoying tourism and respecting the environment and local cultures, ensuring that future generations can also enjoy the same benefits.
Principles of the Charter
Principle 1: Promote the culture of peace through tourism.
Principle 2: Strengthen environmental solidarity and the regeneration of natural resources.
Principle 3: Encourage cooperation for the safeguarding of cultural heritage, both material and immaterial, among all tourism stakeholders.
Principle 4: Strengthen the common commitment to unite all agents to transform tourism and make it effectively contribute to climate action.
Principle 5: Promote innovation and the adoption of sustainable technologies.
Principle 6: Limit overtourism and its harmful effects.
Principle 7: Increase the capacity to imagine and create new sustainable tourism forms and products.
Principle 8: Promote and demand economic and social justice in tourism.
Principle 9: Activate the engines of change: education, awareness, and dissemination of good practices.
Principle 10: Establish codes of conduct, instruments, and proactive frameworks to ensure the sustainability of tourism.
Principle 11: Forge alliances to consolidate a sustainable tourism future.