Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.
On this day, FCTG’s (Flight Centre Travel Group) Responsible Travel arm Worldwise celebrates its coalition partnership with the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism (IIPT). It is on this day we also shine a spotlight on how the world needs travel and tourism, to not only promote all the wonders and beauties of the world – but how tourism can play a vital role to help protect our planet and to connect its people across all regions.
It is also a day we would like to share Anita Mendiratta, IIPT Ambassador for Peace message of the importance of travel and tourism as a way to achieve peace around the world…
Tourism as a Vehicle of Peace
“In a world without borders, tourism has become a vehicle for peace with its ability to connect people, places, and possibilities. And right now we need this proactive, empowering, and uniting vehicle for bridge-building, a force for good that works every day to unlock people’s ability to venture out into the world to feed their curiosity, find their compassion, to give, not just take.”
Economic Empowerment
Importantly, without travel and tourism, we lose the opportunity for economic expansion that raises the baseline for billions, the opportunity for social understanding and inclusivity, the opportunity for environmental protection and preservation the vital ways in which we can ensure that, for generations to come, proudly and purposefully protecting and preserving what Mother Nature gave us, and ultimately allowing us to see, feel, that it is our differences that unite us.”
Today is a day to reflect how it is through tourism that the breadth of humanity’s experience is somehow united – how it enables connection for us all. This connection creates harmony, which in turn, creates peace on a global scale.
Go travel and encourage others to travel in peace…
Article by Tara Young
Submitted with the permission of
Flight Centre Travel Group
