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NGO Position Papers: note that most of these papers and statements were prepared for CSD-7 in 1999  

• Women's Caucus recommendations on Tourism for CSD-8
• Summary of Report on Gender & Tourism

• Papers from German Forum:
• Sustainable tourism - now  internationally acceptable?
• Turismo sostenible, ahora internacionalmente „presentable“?
• Biological Diversity and Tourism in the Convention on Biological Diversity
 

• NGO Position Paper, prepared by the Steering Committee's Tourism Caucus at the Intersessional Working Group meeting of the CSD, Feb. 23 1999, to be circulated to government delegations.
• NGO Comments on the Elements for a Draft Decision, suggested amendments to the official text of CSD-7
• Tourism Dialogues: Themes Paper, submitted to the CSD Bureau, July 1998.
• Towards Earth Summit II, 1997 - Tourism text.

• Global Code of Ethics for Tourism, as submitted by ECTWT, TEN and EQUATIONS, to the World Tourism Organisation in 1998.
• Position Paper of the International Friends of Nature on the role of tourism in the context of sustainable development.
• Position Paper of the German NGO Forum on Environment & Development on the environmental and social responsibility of tourism in the context of sustainable development. Also available in Spanish.

• Differentiating between Tourism and "Sustainable Tourism", article by Meenakshi Varandani.

NGO Statements to the Intersessional Working Group on Tourism:

• 23 February, 1999: Statement from NGO Tourism Caucus, Patricia Barnett, Tourism Concern, U.K.
• 25 February, 1999: Statement from NGO Tourism Caucus and Trade Unions

Other Papers

• Sustainable Tourism and Poverty Elimination: A report on the workshop held on the 13th of October 1998 by the U.K. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions  & the Department for International Development

 

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