Sustainable Tourism Law

800 SUSTAINABLE TOURISM LAW development encompass a number of developing trends in international law. This connection between culture, tourism, and recent trends in international law is evidenced in conventions such as Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) and The Statement on the Prevention of Organized SexTourism (1995) ; and the development of international organizations such as: The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), UNESCO and its Transport, Communications, Tourism and Infrastructure Development Division (TCTIDD). The greater impact of tourism to be a positive influence on an economy and society has been emphasized numerous times in recent years, following the tragic deaths, economic and touristic devastation resulting from the earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and oil spills. Tragically through these disasters – both the natural events and the government based management inefficiencies – the world came to know the plight of the inhabitants of these locales and the importance of tourism to their livelihood and cultural sustainability. This is because, for example, every touristic venture to recovered disaster destinations like New Orleans consists of experiencing their culture, in this case the legacy of jazz, Creole cuisine and language, the local accepting attitudes, and the history of a people, many of color, whose roots span all of Africa, France, Spain, as well as other parts of Europe and North America. New Orleans is a model of a society that has been greatly developed, marketed and preserved, its tourism cultural products for present and future generations. The many ways that tourism impacts an economy has been described as follows: It is now recognized that tourism has great potential to create and indirectly support job creation in several segments of the economy: airlines; hotels; restaurants; transportation; travel agencies; and telecommunications. Private sector leddevelopment of the tourist industry is an important source of foreign exchange revenues in many countries in the Middle East. The tourism industry has also played an important transformational role as a vocal constituency for improvements to airports, immigration and visa procedures, security, road, rail and telecommunication networks. . Seeing numerous governments’ responses to recent disasters in our world tourism destinations, makes it clear that having an appropriate administrative government with good laws in place will enable and facilitate touristic development of cultural heritage.