Andorra has change into the twenty fifth nation to stick to the Worldwide Code for the Safety of Vacationers (ICPT).
The signing of the adherence on the FITUR worldwide tourism commerce truthful in Madrid marks a big step in reinforcing the world dedication to enhancing travellers’ rights and protections worldwide.
Natalia Bayona, Govt Director of UN Tourism, mentioned: “Right this moment, we reaffirm our dedication to supporting Andorra in attaining balanced, sustainable, and aggressive tourism development on the worldwide stage. The challenges the sector faces, together with local weather change and useful resource stability, demand strengthened institutional collaboration. By selling sustainable practices and driving progressive options, we will guarantee Andorra stays a resilient prime vacation spot for the longer term.”
The Minister of Tourism and Commerce of Andorra, Jordi Torres Falcó, expressed his enthusiasm, stating, “Becoming a member of the ICPT reaffirms Andorra’s dedication to accountable and sustainable tourism, aimed toward benefiting each travellers and residents.”
Along with this important milestone, UN Tourism is launching a technical cooperation venture targeted on creating a Tourism Framework Legislation for Andorra. This initiative addresses the important thing wants of the sector by making a complete authorized framework that integrates greatest worldwide practices in sustainable tourism, inserting particular emphasis on the core pillars of sustainability, digitalization, coaching, and sector competitiveness.
The venture will even information tourism governance in Andorra, establishing important inter-institutional and multisectoral coordination mechanisms to make sure the efficient implementation of a strategic tourism plan within the coming years.
By fostering collaboration amongst key stakeholders and providing specialised assist, this venture goals to foster a Tourism Framework Legislation that mixes worldwide greatest practices with native wants, making certain sustainable, aggressive, and accountable tourism development within the nation.
Alicia Gomez, Director of Authorized Affairs and Worldwide Requirements at UN Tourism, emphasised the significance of this achievement: “I want to thank Minister Torres for putting his belief in UN Tourism to develop this technical cooperation venture, which is able to present the nation with a complete, up to date, and harmonized authorized framework, driving versatile and efficient long-term development within the tourism sector and serving as a reference framework for different member states within the growth and optimization of tourism laws.”
