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Sustainable tourism

Tourism has become one of the most important European industries, providing valuable income and employment throughout the region. However, the tourist industry also represents one of the greatest threats both to the beauty of the manmade and the natural landscape, and to the integrity of local culture.
Nowadays Bosnia Herzegovina face the serious challenge of reaching the standards to apply for a UE full membership without losing it’s heritage in the process; for this reason we strongly believe that the tourist industry should have a sustainable approach to our land, to our forests, to our habits.

In other words we believe that any tourist and any tour operator should show absolute respect for the natural environment and the social and cultural traditions of the area and that tourism should be seen, above all else, as an exchange of social and cultural values.
These two principles lie at the heart of any successful tourist activity, making it both economically rewarding and culturally enriching for visitors and residents alike.

At http://www.unep.fr/greenpassport learn how you can help to make tourism a sustainable activity.

http://www.unwto.org/sdt/index.php contains the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organisation) policy guidelines and tools for a sustainable development on tourism .

http://www.unwto.org/step Sustainable Tourism Eliminating Poverty, by UNWTO.

Green Tour BH is a non-governmental organization (NGO) whose programmatic goals focus on contributing to the socio-economic development of rural areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH).

http://www.gdrc.org/uem/eco-tour/eco-tour.html a good source of information about Sustainable Tourism.

http://www.sustainabletourism.net/ another good source on Sustainable Tourism.

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