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.