Andorra has develop into the twenty fifth nation to stick to the Worldwide Code for the Safety of Vacationers (ICPT).

The signing of the adherence on the FITUR worldwide tourism commerce truthful in Madrid marks a major step in reinforcing the  international dedication to enhancing travellers’ rights and protections  worldwide.

Natalia Bayona, Govt Director of UN Tourism, stated: “Right this moment, we reaffirm our dedication to supporting Andorra in reaching balanced, sustainable, and aggressive tourism progress on the worldwide stage. The challenges the sector faces, together with local weather change and useful resource stability, demand strengthened institutional collaboration. By selling sustainable practices and driving modern options, we will guarantee Andorra stays a resilient prime vacation spot for the long run.”

The Minister of Tourism and Commerce of Andorra, Jordi Torres Falcó, expressed his enthusiasm, stating, “Becoming a member of the ICPT reaffirms Andorra’s dedication to accountable and sustainable tourism, aimed toward benefiting each travellers and residents.”

Along with this important milestone, UN Tourism is launching a technical cooperation challenge targeted on  creating a Tourism Framework Regulation for Andorra. This initiative addresses the important thing wants of the sector by making a complete authorized framework that integrates greatest worldwide practices in sustainable tourism, putting particular emphasis on the core pillars of sustainability, digitalization, coaching, and sector competitiveness.

The challenge may even information tourism governance in Andorra, establishing important inter-institutional and multisectoral coordination mechanisms to make sure the efficient implementation of a strategic tourism plan within the coming years.

By fostering collaboration amongst key stakeholders and providing specialised help, this challenge goals to foster a Tourism Framework Regulation that mixes worldwide greatest practices with native wants, making certain sustainable, aggressive, and accountable tourism progress within the nation.

Alicia Gomez, Director of Authorized Affairs and Worldwide Requirements at UN Tourism, emphasised the significance of this achievement: “I wish to thank Minister Torres for putting his belief in UN Tourism to develop this technical cooperation challenge, which is able to present the nation with a complete, up to date, and harmonized authorized framework, driving versatile and efficient long-term progress within the tourism sector and serving as a reference framework for different member states within the improvement  and optimization of tourism laws.”