THE international community today celebrates World Tourism Day with a call for people to pledge that they will #TravelEnjoyRespect in keeping with the adoption by the UN General Assembly of 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development.

World Tourism Day is held annually on September 27 to promote the importance of tourism and its social, cultural, political and economic value. The observance of the event was established by the UN World Tourism Organization in 1979 and the first staging of World Tourism Day came the following year.

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