The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute an ambitious global agenda for people, planet, prosperity and peace through partnerships. Promoting greater engagement of the tourism sector with sustainable development is the main objective of the Tourism for SDGs platform. The SDGs aim to end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and solve climate change by 2030. The economic relevance of tourism, representing up to 10% of the world’s GDP and employment, makes harnessing its full potential essential for the advancement of the SDGs.

“Tourism plays a vital role in many, if not all, of the 17 Goals,” said UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili. “Tourism has come of age as a cross-cutting economic activity with deep social ramifications, and the Tourism for SDGs Platform is providing the global tourism community with a space to co-create and engage to realise the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” he added.

The Tourism4SDGs.org platform has three main levels of interaction: Learn, Share and Act. Each feature is a call for action, which aim not only to educate, but also encourage conversation and collaboration towards a sustainable tourism sector.