12-17 September 2015 Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia
21st Session of the UNWTO General Assembly

This 21st session of the General Assembly of the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) will meet under the theme 'Tourism: promoting inclusive development and social transformation,' and is taking place during a period of rapid growth for the tourism sector worldwide, with international tourism reaching record levels in 2014, with 1,133 million tourists contributing US$1.5 trillion in exports. The Assembly is expected to bring together over 800 delegates from UNWTO Member States, the private sector and academia. Assembly highlights will include the joint UNWTO/International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) High-level Forum on Tourism and Air Transport for Development, which will discuss how closer cooperation between aviation and tourism can maximize both sectors' on employment, inclusive growth and sustainable development, in the context of the post-2105 development agenda and the Paris Climate Change Conference. Other events will address, inter alia: tourism as a tool for peace and social inclusion' financing for development; and gastronomic and shopping tourism. Convened every two years, the General Assembly is the UNWTO's main statutory meeting and the most important international gathering of senior tourism officials and high-level representatives of the private sector.  

dates: 12-17 September 2015  
location: Medellin, Antioquia, Colombia  
contact: UNWTO Conferences Programme  
e-mail: conf@unwto.org  
www: http://www.unwtoga2015.org
 http://lmd.unwto.org/event/general-assembly-twenty-first-session  

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