UNWTO Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Tourism 2013 - Call for Applications

05/06/2013

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The UNWTO Awards, created by the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), are the flagship awards for the global tourism sector. They recognize exceptional leaders for their excellence and innovative achievements in the categories of creation and dissemination of knowledge, and lifetime achievement for individuals, as well as public policy and governance, research and technologies, enterprises and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for specific tourism initiatives.

Since the inception of the UNWTO Awards in 2003, originally as the UNWTO Ulysses Prize, UNWTO has acknowledged the contribution of nine distinguished scholars as well as more than forty institutions - public, private or NGOs - for their innovative tourism initiatives, which have served as an inspiration for competitive and sustainable tourism development at the local, national, regional and international levels.
 
The contribution of the awardees is in line with the policies, priorities and programme of work of UNWTO, including the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism and the principles and standards set in the United Nations’ eight Millennium Development Goals.
 
There are two categories of Awards for individuals:
a. UNWTO Ulysses Prize for Excellence in the Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge - will be awarded to a distinguished scholar for his/her outstanding contribution to create and disseminate
innovative knowledge in tourism.
b. UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement - will be conferred to recognize a lifetime achievement of individuals with visionary leadership and significant contribution throughout the nominee’s career as an inspirational role model for the development at the local, national, regional or international level.
 
There are four categories of Awards for specific tourism initiatives:
a. UNWTO Ulysses Award for Innovation in Public Policy and Governance
b. UNWTO Ulysses Award for Innovation in Enterprises
c. UNWTO Ulysses Award for Innovation in Non-Governmental Organizations
d. UNWTO Ulysses Award for Innovation in Research and Technology

The deadline of reception of nominations is 1 October 2013 

The 2013 Guidelines for the UNWTO Awards for Excellence and Innovation in Tourism and the Awards nomination forms are available for download from the UNWTO website (http://know.unwto.org).

 

The Awards cerimony will take place on 22 January 2014 during the Madrid International Tourism Trade Fair (FITUR). The 23th of January 2014 the UNWTO Knowledge Network Symposium will stage the best practices awarded.  

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