Last Updated on 25 September 2024 IST | World Tourism Day 2024: World Tourism Day is celebrated every year on September 27 globally. Since 1980, the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organisation) has observed World Tourism Day (WTD) to preserve and promote cultural and natural heritage around the globe. Read on to learn in-depth about the observance of World Tourism Day 2024.

World Tourism Day 2024 Highlights

• The tourism sector is a lifeline, offering jobs and opportunities, particularly for women and youth
• It was initiated to create understanding among people, advance prosperity, and lay the foundations of peace while protecting our planet.
• UN World Tourism Day is being organised at Georgia for the year 2024.
• World Tourism Day 2024 Theme is ‘Tourism and Peace’.
• Take a Spiritual tour to promote Spiritual culture and know about the true Guru who can provide us the way to reach God Kabir Saheb

What Is the Significance of World Tourism Day?

Tourism provides access to employment opportunities, especially for migrant workers, youth, women, and rural populations in the least developed and developing countries. 

Many more contributions of tourism are like recognition of the right to holidays in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the improved adoption of labour rights which have encouraged the UN World Tourism Organisation to establish World Tourism Day in 1980.

When Is World Tourism Day Observed?

World Tourism Day 2024: World Tourism Day (WTD) is observed annually on September 27 worldwide. In September 1979, the UN WTO decided to introduce World Tourism Day and celebrated the very first Day on September 27, 1980. This date marks the 10th anniversary of adoption of UNWTO Statutes on September 27, 1970, a significant milestone in the tourism sector.

What Is the Aim of World Tourism Day?

World Tourism Day 2024: The main aim of the international observance is to raise awareness about the crucial role of tourism globally and to highlight its contributions to social, cultural, political, and economic development.

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According to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), tourism is an essential pillar of goals 8, 12 and 14 on inclusive and sustainable economic growth, sustainable consumption and production (SCP), and the sustainable use of oceans marine resources, respectively.

How To Celebrate World Tourism Day 2024

• UN Celebrations in the year 2024 will be hosted by Georgia, which is heavily dependent on tourism as a source of income.
• Many tourism organisations and government agencies interested in tourism celebrate the event with various special events and festivities.
• Other activities include special offers, discounts, or free entries for the public to some spot of tourism attraction.

What Is the World Tourism Day (WTD) 2024 Theme?

The theme of World Tourism Day 2024 is “Tourism and Peace“. The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has designated this year to promote how tourism can establish peace globally. Tourism can build long lasting relations between nations which can further help in establishing peace among nations.

On its concept note UNWTO has highlighted concepts of the theme. The theme gives us an opportunity to rethink how we do tourism. This indicates about putting people and the planet first and making this sector more sustainable, inclusive and resilient sector.

Tourism is a recognized pillar of most – if not all – the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs), particularly Goals 1 (no poverty), 5 (gender equality), 8 (decent work and economic growth) and 10 (reduce inequalities).

World Tourism Day 2024: Events

• This year Tbilisi, Georgia is hosting the World Tourism Day 2024 celebration. This celebration will take place at Paragraph Freedom Square, a luxury collection hotel, Tbilisi, Georgia on 27th September 2024. Special Care has been taken for administrative, logistical and other protocols for all the coming guests.

• UN Tourism along with the government of Madrid are coming together to organise 3rd Edition of World Sports Tourism Congress. Various stakeholders are being called to share ideas, practices and insights of sports tourism. Along with sharing ideas, their economic impact and contributions into attaining Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will also be discussed.

• UN Tourism in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism of the Dominican Republic is all set to conduct 1st UN Tourism Africa and Americas Summit. Commissions of Africa and America are invited for the event to be held in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic from 2nd October to 5th October 2024.

• World Tourism inaugural event on ‘ESG Framework For Tourism Businesses’ to be held on 30th September at UN Tourism Headquarters at Madrid, Spain. Various sorts of data, statistics and standards of the research undertaken in partnership with University of Oxford SDG Impact Lab. This research will be able to develop the first Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) framework for specifically Tourism. Attendees will have the opportunity to interact with a wider range of innovations discussing future scope.

• World Ministers Summit to be held in association with UN Tourism and WTTC on 6th November 2024 at ExCel London, UK. The topic of the Summit is ‘AI for Good in Tourism: Exploring AI and Emerging Technologies’.

Along with these events, there are many more happening across the globe, for more information you can visit the official website of UN Tourism. But as the theme of the observance suggests about the establishment of peace, aligning your life spiritually can help globe attain peace standards with ease.

Attaining Peace Through Spirituality 

Aligning your life spiritually is as important as earning a livelihood. To understand spiritual concepts and follow the path of worship outlined in our sacred texts, we need a Spiritual Guru or Complete Saint, also renowned as a Tatvdarshi Sant. Just as we hire a tour guide when traveling to new places to plan an itinerary and ensure a comfortable journey, similarly, one should choose the right spiritual master (a Complete Saint) to guide them on the spiritual path that leads to salvation.

People often travel globally in pursuit of a right spiritual path and spiritual master but not everybody finds one. On this World Tourism Day, what travel destination can end one’s quest for the right Complete Saint?

Who is a Complete Saint?

Currently, Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj is the Complete Saint Who has enlightened the true path, demonstrating that He has the solution to every spiritual entanglement that has ever existed. The spiritual knowledge given by Him not only provides the right spiritual path but also transforms individuals in the deteriorating conditions of society. 

With the method of worship given by Him in accordance with our holy scriptures, (which differs from traditional method of worship), the number of His devotees has grown exponentially over the past few years which is a testament to His authenticity. Additionally, the profound benefits experienced by His devotees stand as unparalleled evidence that Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj is indeed the Complete Saint, humanity has been searching for, for ages.

Beginning from Haryana, Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj established Satlok Ashram, which has 11 branches in India and abroad, and has over 500 Naam Diksha (Initiation) centres worldwide. To learn more you can download ‘Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj’ App or you can visit His website www.jagatgururampalji.org 

World Tourism Day 2024 Quotes

• “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” – Paula Bendfeldt
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
• “Make the right move and find a Truly Enlightened Saint to attain salvation” – Sant Rampal Ji Maharaj 

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