In November 2020, UNESCO approved the creation of this UNESCO Chair in Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development.
This UNESCO Chair in Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development is the first in Spain and the 10th in the world.
It was in 1995, on the island of Lanzarote, where the Sustainable Tourism Charter was signed at the World Conference on Sustainable Tourism. Previously, on October 7, 1993, it was the first island in the world qualified as a Biosphere Reserve in its entirety.
Providing training programs in tourism and sustainable economic development, including ecotourism management.
Organizing local and international congresses, conferences, and symposiums on sustainable tourism development.
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) were created in 2015 by the Member States of the United Nations as part of the 2030 Agenda. The 17 agreed goals aim to achieve within 15 years, a period that will end in the year 2030, a development of societies that respect the biophysical limits of the planet.
Objectives of Sustainable Tourism Development
Due to current problems (inequality, poverty, destruction of the natural environment, etc.), the need to adopt a model of sustainable development is recognized, in the different economic and social activities, which creates new positive synergies both for the natural environment and for societies, increasing social welfare and establishing a series of limits to growth, ideas that emerged in 1972 in the publication “The limits to growth: Report to the Club of Rome on the predicament of Humanity”.
