World Tourism Day 2010 to Celebrate 'Tourism and Biodiversity' Saturday, 05.22.2010, 02:26am (GMT)
World Tourism Day 2010 to Celebrate 'Tourism and Biodiversity'
Madrid, Spain, 21 May 2010
As the world comes together to celebrate 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity, UNWTO is happy to announce that the World Tourism Day (WTD) celebrations, hosted officially this year by China, will take place under the theme Tourism and Biodiversity (27 September, Guangdong Province). The theme provides a unique opportunity to raise public awareness of the importance of biodiversity to tourism and the role of sustainable tourism in the conservation of life on Earth.