Tourism can transform the globe and build better understanding in a world living with a deficit of tolerance.
That was the message of Taleb Rifai, UNWTO secretary-general, at the 2017 edition of travel expo ITB Berlin, held recently in the German capital.
He said: “We live the worst of times and the best of times. Times when we wake up every other day with the threat of terrorism at our doorstep and the glooming numbers of unemployment. Times of isolationism and ill-conceived actions like travel bans, which do not lead to increased security but just to growing tension.
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Tourism opens our hearts and our minds