International tourism accounts for roughly 30 percent of global trade in services. For many developing countries, it constitutes the single largest foreign exchange earner. Tourism has linkages into many other parts of the economy, contributing to job creation and poverty reduction. It is estimated that one out of every eleven jobs worldwide is directly or indirectly interlinked to tourism.
ITC’s specific competence lies in its trade orientation and its mandate to work with the private sector, especially for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) internationalization.
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ITC and UNWTO have entered a strategic partnership to aggregate the two organizations’ resources and competencies and to share perspectives in the process of rethinking a joint approach to Aid for Trade (AfT) in tourism. The partnership also aims at having a more integrated and innovative approach of tourism development for inclusive growth. UNWTO opened its liaison office at premises of ITC headquarters on 10 January 2017. |
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UN Steering Committee on Tourism for Development (UN-SCTD)
ITC is one of the 10 leading agencies of the UN-SCTD, an innovative approach to Delivering as One for Tourism. It is a partnership bringing together ten UN agencies committed to mainstreaming tourism in the global development agenda.