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Organised under the theme ‘Tourism and Climate Change’, this COP22 conference is an opportunity for exchanges between Western Mediterranean countries, the complexity of the links between climate factors and tourism, as well as the needs adaptation and mitigation to be adopted to deal with climate change in a fragile context.
Awareness of the vulnerability of the tourism sector and the challenges to cope with climate change, along with the importance of the tourism industry in the Western Mediterranean in terms of job creation, poverty reduction, development of natural resources, and the reconciliation of peoples and civilisations, the countries of the 5+5 Dialogue of Tourism Ministers adopted and signed at the ministerial meeting, a ‘Declaration of Casablanca’, which is another brick in the edifice of tourism cooperation between the countries of this region.
The ‘Casablanca Declaration’ aims to undertake as part of a coordinated approach and joint governance, measures to both assess and monitor the impact of tourism on climate change in the region and to mitigate and/or limit the impacts of climate change on touristic development. It was also recommended at the meeting to set up a ‘Sustainable Tourism Strategy in the Mediterranean’.
The 5+5 Dialogue brought together ten countries bordering the basin Western Mediterranean, namely the five countries of the Arab Maghreb Union (Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya) and five countries of Western Europe (Spain, France, Italy, Malta, and Portugal).
Casablanca welcomed on July 11, 2016, the fourth Conference of the 5+5 Dialogue of Tourism Ministers on the Western Mediterranean.
Organised under the theme ‘Tourism and Climate Change’, this COP22 conference is an opportunity for exchanges between Western Mediterranean countries, the complexity of the links between climate factors and tourism, as well as the needs adaptation and mitigation to be adopted to deal with climate change in a fragile context.
Awareness of the vulnerability of the tourism sector and the challenges to cope with climate change, along with the importance of the tourism industry in the Western Mediterranean in terms of job creation, poverty reduction, development of natural resources, and the reconciliation of peoples and civilisations, the countries of the 5+5 Dialogue of Tourism Ministers adopted and signed at the ministerial meeting, a ‘Declaration of Casablanca’, which is another brick in the edifice of tourism cooperation between the countries of this region.
The ‘Casablanca Declaration’ aims to undertake as part of a coordinated approach and joint governance, measures to both assess and monitor the impact of tourism on climate change in the region and to mitigate and/or limit the impacts of climate change on touristic development. It was also recommended at the meeting to set up a ‘Sustainable Tourism Strategy in the Mediterranean’.
The 5+5 Dialogue brought together ten countries bordering the basin Western Mediterranean, namely the five countries of the Arab Maghreb Union (Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya) and five countries of Western Europe (Spain, France, Italy, Malta, and Portugal).
Source: travelnewsdigest.in