- Supporters, Board-members and followers of the Imeđunarodni institut za mir kroz turizam (IIPT) organization met virtually last week as a “global family” meeting arranged by the World Tourism Network i eTurboNews.
- Louis D’Amore founded IIPT 34 years ago and expressed his commitment to welcome 1000 peace parks. Currently, IIPT has established peace parks in every continent except Antarctica
- The family meeting heard chapter updates from around the world including Jamaica, Australia, Iran, and welcomed a new chapter in the Maldives.
Family meetings are usually private, but the IIPT board decided to make last week’s virtual meeting public. Peace Through Tourism after all is a Global Family of peace-loving members of the travel and tourism industry anywhere.
IIPT family members attending included Dr. Taleb Rifai, former two-time secretary-general of the UNWTO, Ajay Prakash , VP & President of IIPT India, Kiran Yadov, VP and Co-founder IIPT India, Diana McIntyre, president of the Caribbean Chapter, Gail Parsonage, president IIPT Australia, Fabio Carbone, IIPT Ambassador at Large and President IIPT Iran, Philippe Francois, CEO World Association for Hospitality and Tourism Education& Training, Juergen Steinmetz, Founder World Tourism Network and CEO of the Travel News Group, Maga Ramasamy, President IIPT Indian Ocean Islands, Ms. Mmatsatsi, President IIPT South Africa, Bea Broda, film-maker, Mohamed Raadih , IIPT Maldives Chapter President, among others.
Međunarodni institut za mir kroz turizam (IIPT) rođen je 1986. godine, u Međunarodnoj godini mira, s vizijom da putovanja i turizam postanu prva svjetska globalna mirovna industrija i uvjerenje da je svaki putnik potencijalno “ambasador mira”. Prva globalna konferencija IIPT, Turizam: vitalna snaga za mir, Vancouver 1988., sa 800 delegata iz 68 zemalja bila je transformativni događaj. U vrijeme kada je većina turizma bio 'masovni turizam', Konferencija je prvi put predstavila koncept 'održivog turizma', kao i novu paradigmu za "višu svrhu" turizma koja daje naglasak na ključnu ulogu turizma u poticanju putovanja i turističke inicijative koje doprinose međunarodnom razumijevanju; saradnja među narodima; poboljšan kvalitet životne sredine; kulturno unapređenje i očuvanje baštine; smanjenje siromaštva; pomirenje i zacjeljivanje rana sukoba; i kroz ove inicijative, pomažući da se uspostavi miran i održiv svijet. IIPT je od tada organizovao oko 20 međunarodnih konferencija i globalnih samita u različitim regionima sveta sa fokusom na stvarne studije slučaja koje demonstriraju i promovišu ove vrednosti turizma.
Godine 1990. IIPT je pionir u ulozi turizma u smanjenju siromaštva identificirajući potencijalne projekte u četiri zemlje Kariba i tri u Centralnoj Americi. Nakon Konferencije UN o životnoj sredini i razvoju (Samit u Riju 1992.), IIPT je razvio prvi etički kodeks i smjernice za održivi turizam u svijetu, a 1993. godine proveo prvu međunarodnu studiju o Kodeksima ponašanja i najboljim praksama za turizam i okoliš. Konferencija IIPT-a u Montrealu 1994: “Izgradnja održivog svijeta kroz turizam” bila je prva velika međunarodna konferencija o održivom turizmu. Konferencija je bila ključna za početak podrške Svjetske banke turističkim projektima koji imaju za cilj smanjenje siromaštva u zemljama u razvoju. Usledile su i druge razvojne agencije i do 2000. godine uloga turizma u smanjenju siromaštva postala je opštepriznata.
The Amman Declaration resulting from IIPT’s Global Summit in Amman, Jordan 2000 was adopted as an official document of the United Nations. Similarly, the Lusaka Declaration on Sustainable Tourism Development, Climate Change and Peace, resulting from the IIPT Fifth African Conference, 2011, was adopted by UNWTO and broadly circulated. The Conference also resulted in a book publication: Meetng the Challenges of Climate Change to Tourism and was instrumental in the UNWTO 20th General Assembly being co-hosted by Zambia and Zimbabwe. The IIPT Global Symposium, 2015 in Johannesburg, South Africa honored the legacies of Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. IIPT has also had featured events each year since 1999 at World Travel Market, London – the past four years at ITB, Berlin and several manor Chapter conferences and events in the Caribbean, Australia, India, Jordan, Malaysia and Iran.
In 1992, as part of Canada 125 celebrations commemorating Canada’s 125th birthday as a nation, IIPT conceived and implemented “Peace Parks across Canada.” 350 cities and towns from St. John’s, Newfoundland across five time zones to Victoria, British Columbia, dedicated a park to peace on October 8 as the nation’s Peace-Keeping Monument was being unveiled in Ottawa and 5,000 Peace Keepers passing in review. Of the more than 25,000 Canada125 projects, Peace Parks across Canada was said to be the “most significant.” Since then, IIPT international peace parks have been dedicated as a legacy of each of IIPT’s international conferences and global summits. Noteworthy IIPT International Peace Parks are located at Bethany Beyond the Jordan, site of Christ’s baptism; Victoria Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world; Ndola, Zambia, site of U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold crash en route to a peace mission in the Congo; DMedellin, Colombia, dedicated on Opening Day of the UNWTO 21. Generalna skupština; Nacionalni park Sun River, Kina; i katoličko svetište mučenika Ugande, Zambija.
More on IIPT visit www.iipt.org More on WTN posjetite: www.wtn.putovanje
Peace Through Tourism Interest Group within the World Tourism Network: https://rebuilding.travel/peace/
ŠTA UZIMATI IZ OVOG ČLANKA:
- Međunarodni institut za mir kroz turizam (IIPT) rođen je 1986. godine, u Međunarodnoj godini mira, sa vizijom da putovanja i turizam postanu prva svjetska globalna mirovna industrija i uvjerenje da je svaki putnik potencijalno „ambasador mira.
- Conference on Environment and Development (Rio Summit in 1992), IIPT developed the world's first Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Sustainable Tourism and in 1993, conducted the world's first international study on Codes of Conduct and Best Practices for Tourism and Environment.
- The Conference first introduced the concept of ‘Sustainable Tourism' as well as a new paradigm for a “Higher Purpose” of tourism that gives emphasis to the key role of tourism in fostering travel and tourism initiatives that contribute to international understanding.
