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In recent years there has been a proliferation of carbon offsetting schemes, specifically designed for individual travellers or for package tours.

Jamaica also identified sustainable development programme for its tourism sector.

There are plans to develop and implement projects to rebuild tourism.

UNDP also continued its support to the tourism sector by providing capacity building assistance to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in the areas of policy formulation, sectoral planning, human resources development and tourism awareness and marketing.

Objective 4 of the North West Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP) also refers to tourism specifically, and tourism is also mentioned in decisions, recommendations and plans adopted by the Parties to various other multilateral environmental agreements.

This trend is evident in the North American and European markets, where an increasing number of people are planning and buying their trips online.

In order to promote e tourism development, UNCTAD has developed a DMS as part of the E Tourism Initiative, a technical assistance package aimed at promoting the application of ICTs in tourism so as to enable developing countries to exploit their tourism resources.

Noting also the tourism action plan of the New Partnership for Africa's Development adopted by the African tourism ministers at the forty first meeting of the World Tourism Organization Commission for Africa and endorsed by the African Union Summit in July 2004,

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This includes an ongoing plan for the development of tourism in the Golan Heights, which is estimated at about US 5.5 million.

The promotion of tourism niches by developing countries for which many of them enjoy a competitive advantage and the development of DMSs that offer tourism enterprises and consumers respectively an innovative way to promote and obtain tourism information (e.g. search engine, trip planner, interactive maps and virtual tours) are contributing factors to the creation of value.

To implement the Phuket Action Plan, the World Tourism Organization, in collaboration with the international tourism community, has initiated a series of specific activities and actions including familiarization trips for the media and tour operators, communication campaigns, waiving of participation fees at international tourism fairs, assistance in channelling funds to small and medium sized tourism enterprises, workshops on risk management and repositioning of tourism products.

At its February 2005 meeting, the Interagency Coordination Group on Tourism Statistics considered proposals to update the Tourism Satellite Account Recommended Methodological Framework,2 and the 1993 United Nations World Tourism Organization recommendations on tourism statistics.

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Eco tourism, cultural and natural heritage tourism, health and medical tourism and adventure tourism are some of the tourism niches that are increasingly marketed by destinations and tourism enterprises in developing countries.

It is also foreseen that about 50 per cent of tourism packages will be purchased directly on line by independent travellers.

The programme recognizes that uncontrolled and ill planned tourism significantly degrades the coastal environment.

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The guidelines set out a management framework that includes impact assessment and impact management, and the need for a planned approach to tourism that balances the goals and requirements of conservation with the demand for tourism, for example through zoning and other measures.

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Plans are also in place to expand the French Caribbean markets, and the Tourist Board is focusing on the large number of French tourists who visit the French islands.

Aware that the Government intends to continue its commitment to high end tourism and the implementation of various regulations in the financial services sector,

IS3.41 In line with current trends of increased ticket prices in the tourism industry of the host city, an increase in ticket prices is planned for each year of the biennium 2006 2007 for all categories of visitors taking the guided tour at Headquarters.

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(viii) working with other Divisions in ESCAP to address health issues in transport, including HIV AIDS and road safety

In 2004, at UNCTAD XI, the secretariat launched the E Tourism Initiative, a technical assistance package aimed at promoting the application of ICTs in the sector of tourism so as to enable developing countries to exploit their tourism resources themselves and benefit from greater autonomy in creating and promoting their own brand.

The Tourist Board has taken over administrative and financial responsibility for the tourism sector, contributing significantly to Anguilla s marketing efforts through increased mobilization of resources to finance promotional activities, and the implementation of a tourism strategic marketing plan developed under the European Union financed Caribbean Tourism Development Programme, as well as a United Kingdom funded Tourism Promotion and Development Project.22

The online promotion of tourism niches by developing countries complements the product offer of online travel distributors from developed countries, which often promote static packages (versus dynamic packages that allow consumers to customize their travel) and international hotel chains in developing countries.

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Consideration of the full arc of the consumer travel lifecycle should also be a central part of any tourism e tourism strategy, comprising in country travel and post travel follow up.

Antarctic tourism activities are increasing, as is their diversity (camping, climbing, kayaking and scuba diving), presenting new management challenges.

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And I insisted, despite the expense... On having a nurse to travel with her.

Tourism is also a major source of employment, supporting 74 million jobs directly according to a World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) estimate, and 215 million (8.1 per cent of the world total) if all the indirect economic effects of the sector are taken into account.

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Contributing factors for the successful integration of local tourism enterprises into international tourism markets are adequate e tourism strategies that focus on tourism innovation in terms of tourism products and adoption of e business tools such as destination management systems.

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