A/RES/74/214
Sustainable tourism and sustainable development in Central Asia
Sustainable Development Goals and targets, its commitment to working tirelessly for
the full implementation of the Agenda by 2030, its recognition that eradicating
poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest
global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development, its
commitment to achieving sustainable development in its three dimensions –
economic, social and environmental – in a balanced and integrated manner, and to
building upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seeking
to address their unfinished business,
Reaffirming also its resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis Ababa
Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development,
which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, supports
and complements it, helps to contextualize its means of implementation targets with
concrete policies and actions, and reaffirms the strong political commitment to
address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels
for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity,
Reaffirming further the Paris Agreement 5 and its early entry into force,
encouraging all its parties to implement fully the Agreement, and parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 6 that have not yet done so to
deposit their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, where
appropriate, as soon as possible,
Recognizing that sustainable tourism can contribute directly to the conservation
of environmentally vulnerable natural areas and habitats through a variety of activities
and by raising awareness of the importance of biodiversity, stressing the urgent need
to address the unprecedented global decline in biodiversity and looking forward to
the convening of a summit on biodiversity at the level of Heads of State and
Government, within existing resources, before the fifteenth meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to the Convention, in 2020, in order to highlight the urgency
of action at the highest levels in support of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework
that contributes to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and places the
global community on a path towards realizing the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity,
Recognizing also the important dimension and role of sustainable tourism as a
positive instrument towards the improvement of the q uality of life for all people and
its contribution to sustainable development, especially in developing countries, and
to the eradication of poverty and the protection of the environment,
Recognizing further that sustainable tourism, including ecotourism, mountain
tourism and rural tourism, is a cross-cutting activity that can contribute to the
achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, including by fostering economic
growth, alleviating poverty, creating full and productive employment and decent work
for all, advancing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls and
increasing incomes for the population, and noting in particular that tourism accounts
for more than 10 per cent of global gross domestic product, the industry represents
more than 6 per cent of service exports and more than 4 per cent of investments are
directed at tourism development,
Recalling the adoption in 2012 by the United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption
and Production Patterns, 7 and welcoming the launch of the Sustainable Tourism
Programme of the One Planet network,
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