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As with all businesses, Travel & Tourism companies are increasingly affected by environmental and social issues that can influence global demand and industry-wide profitability.
Latest news and insights from various sources relating to UN Sustainable Development Goals.
How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To
There’s that project you’ve left on the backburner – the one with the deadline that’s growing uncomfortably near. And there’s the client whose phone call you really should return – the one that does nothing but complain and eat up your valuable time.
Restaurants near UNHQ NY that commit to sustainability
Here’s a list of the restaurants that commit to participate in the UN’s Be the Change week and allow customers to bring their own containers for food and drinks.
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Greenview’s Eric Ricaurte talks sustainable tourism and creating FOMO among hotels (part 2)
The 2nd part of the interview with Eric Ricaurte, Founder of Greenview, about the role of data and benchmarking in mainstreaming sustainability in the hospitality sector.
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Women scientists and youth take centre stage at UN-backed technology forum
As an international conference on science and technology wrapped up in Vienna, the head of a United Nations partner organization that works to end nuclear testing stressed that women have a “powerful voice” in the global scientific community.
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On International Day, UN promotes cooperative solutions for social inclusion
Cooperatives help to build inclusive economies and societies, and can help to eliminate poverty and reach the other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the head of the United Nations labour agency today said, marking the International Day of Cooperatives.
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The Economic Development In Africa Report 2017 ‘Tourism for Transformative and Inclusive Growth’
Geneva, 29 June 2016 – Reaching the peak of Mt Kilimanjaro, having a medical procedure in Tunisia, observing Rhino’s at an eco-lodge in Namibia, rafting the Zambezi River, these are all forms of a growing and eclectic tourism industry in Africa. This year, UNCTAD’s ‘Economic Development in Africa Report 2017’ focuses on ‘Tourism for transformative […]
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UN marks Day of the Tropics with focus on region’s vulnerability
The majority of the world’s most vulnerable communities are in the Tropics, and will be most affected by environmental threats, according to the United Nations, which today marked the International Day of the Tropics.
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Beyond ecotourism: What the travel sector can really do for development
What can the travel industry to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? Is it moving fast enough towards genuine sustainability?
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Investing in poor children saves more lives per dollar spent, UNICEF study finds
Investing in the health and survival of the most deprived children and communities provides more value for money than investing in less deprived groups, saving almost twice as many lives for every $1 million spent, according to a new study by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
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