{"id":5512,"date":"2021-09-25T12:45:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T07:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2021-10-09T13:10:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T07:40:15","slug":"world-tourism-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/world-tourism-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Tourism Day 2021 &#8211; Date, Theme and Significance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Back in 1979, the United Nations (UN) decided to celebrate &#8216;World Tourism Day&#8217; every year on September 27, to &#8216;increase awareness of the importance of tourism and its social, cultural, political and economic values.&#8217; <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The UN has a special agency called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwto.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)<\/a> that essentially focuses on responsible &amp; sustainable tourism. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Needless to say, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a massive social and economic impact on both developing &amp; developed countries across the world, and one of the worst-hit industries is &#8216;tourism&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">World Tourism Day 2021 Theme<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Keeping that in mind, the UNWTO has decided that the theme for World Tourism Day 2021 would be &#8211; <strong><em>Tourism for Inclusive Growth<\/em><\/strong>, which would emphasize the upliftment of local communities and marginalized groups, essentially dependent on travelers for their source of income.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As the vaccination drives are going on in full swing and we are slowly heading back to normalcy, let&#8217;s take a pledge to travel responsibly, contribute towards the local economy and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/how-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprints\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce our carbon footprints<\/a> while we explore the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lady Bird Johnson<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1979, the United Nations (UN) decided to celebrate &#8216;World Tourism Day&#8217; every year on September 27, to &#8216;increase awareness of the importance of tourism and its social, cultural, political and economic values.&#8217; The UN has a special agency called United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) that essentially focuses on responsible &amp; sustainable tourism. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[795],"tags":[656,797,796,798],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifegram.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}