World Tourism Day

The World Tourism commits the World Tourism Organization ( UNWTO) since 1980, each year on 27 September. The date goes back to the ratification of the UNWTO Statutes 1970.

The World Tourism shows the importance of tourism to the international community and the impact it has on the world social, cultural, political and economic values ​​.

Host of 2012 was Maspalomas on Gran Canaria with the theme "Tourism and energetic sustainability " was, in 2013, he is under the theme "Tourism and Water - Protecting our Common Future ".