Saturday, December 26, 2009

World Tourism Organization (WTO)

World Tourism Organization (WTO):-The rapid development of world tourism necessitated the certain of international tourism organization at government level and world tourism Organization was its results. Legally it came into existence on January 2, 1975 with its headquarter in Madrid, Spain. The organization is the transformation of International Union of Official travel Organization (IUOTO). The IUOTO established in 1947 was represented by national tourists organization from different countries. Later the union could not fulfill the demand and need of modern tourism and as a result WTO was established at government level.
WTO's membership includes 139 countries and territory and more than 350 Affiliated Members representing local government, tourism associations. There are three categories of members. Full members are the Associated Members and Affiliated members. Full members are the sovereign states, associate members are the territories of group of territories and affiliated members are international bodies, both inter-governmental and non-governmental concerned with tourism and whose activities are related to aims of WTO.

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