Aiming to item initiatives that beforehand sustainability, innovation, societal interaction and palmy public-private partnerships successful sports tourism, the World Tourism Organization (UN Tourism) and the FIA announced the motorboat of the Sports Tourism Awards.
The awards see 4 categories:
- Most Sustainable Sport Event
- Community Impact successful Sports Tourism
- Innovation successful Sports Tourism Development
- Outstanding Public-Private Partnerships successful Sports Tourism
The inaugural builds connected the strategical concern launched successful September 2024 betwixt the 2 organizations, aiming to fortify synergies successful the sectors of tourism, athletics and sustainable mobility.
UN Tourism Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili said:
“These awards bespeak the increasing designation of sports tourism arsenic a strategical operator of sustainable development, societal cohesion and innovation. We are arrogant to spouse with the FIA to observe the efforts of those who are creating existent interaction done athletics and tourism.”
For his part, FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem underlined:
“Sport and tourism are almighty drivers of economical growth, taste speech and assemblage development. With this concern and the awards, we volition not lone item bully practices but besides animate others to make affirmative change.”
Sports tourism is 1 of the fastest increasing sectors successful the world, with its marketplace reaching $609 cardinal successful 2023 and estimated to scope $2.3 trillion by 2032. The caller awards purpose to item examples that are shaping the aboriginal of the industry.
Nominations are present unfastened for UN Tourism members, FIA members and different bodies progressive successful the sports tourism sector.
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