Sustainable Tourism Law

WORLD CHARTER FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM +20 495 indigenous place or population visited during a tourism trip, reinforcing, despite the issues we face nowadays, the idea of a global society 17 . Regarding tolerance, it is important to mention that non-discriminatory policies must be used and fostered in the tourism industry to avoid prejudices of all kinds (sex, gender, ethnicity, height, weight etc.) practiced by tourists, managers or employees. The second point to be mentioned is the inclusive role of tourism. Tourism must be a tool of economic and social inclusion, especially in isolated places like small island destinations. It is necessary to use tourism to develop the local economy without destroying the traditional economies, trying to create a confluence between the tourism industry and local trade while giving opportunities to everyone, especially women, indigenous people, people with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups. Another point worth highlighting is the necessity of the tourism industry providing decent work and adequate salaries to the local population, avoiding a marked difference between the salaries and the economic benefits obtained by the supplier from this job. As a consequence of inclusion, other new objectives need to be cited. The first one is the reduction of inequality within and between countries. This target intends for the economic benefits to be used to improve the local quality of life. The tourism contribution for the effectiveness in the reduction of inequality involves job training for the local people that work in direct or indirect tourism, as well as creating policies to generate adequate income by the employers in the tourism supply chain without marked differences among employees working for the same employer in different regions of the same country or in different countries. The second one, the fight against poverty, may be the aftermath of both actions above (social inclusion and the reduction of inequality). In this context, the contribution may be to foster a better professional education in partnership with public authorities and other interested enterprises. An adequate salary, especially in less developed and developing countries, is also a good policy to avoid personal and familiar poverty. Another aspect worthy of attention is the necessity to preserve local traditions, cultures and knowledge. It means that, linked to the natural environment, the immaterial heritage of the indigenous people needs to be conserved to demonstrate the unique or unusual way of life, in tandem with its cultural 17 BASEDOW, Jurgen. The law of open societies: private ordering and public regulation of international relations – general course on private international law. Recueil des Cours : collected courses of The Hague Academy of International Law. Kluwer Law International: The Hague, v. 360, 2013. p. 64-81.