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At the second meeting
of the Carpathian Convention Working Group on sustainable tourism (April 23-25, Poland) the draft tourism protocol to the Carpathian Convention was finalised and is now open for commenting. The draft protocol will be submitted to the 2nd Conference of the Parties of the Carpathian Convention (COP) as a document for information. The COP2 will take place on June 17-19 in Bucharest, Romania.
When commenting the protocol, please be as precise as possible, i.e. please indicate to which chapter and article your comments are relevant to, and please propose the different wording. Deadline for comments is 10 June, 2008. We would appreciate if you let us know your name, and organisation for which you are working. Please send your comments to Kristina Vilimaite via kvilimaite@ceeweb.org. Comments submitted later will not be included into the summary document that will be disseminated at the COP2.
The Working Group on sustainable tourism (Tourism Working Group, TWG) would like to finalise the protocol after the COP2, so it can be signed by the Parties of the Convention at the COP3. For the implementation of the protocol the Working Group will develop a tourism strategy.
The terms of reference of the protocol and the structure of the protocol were developed and adopted at the first TWG meeting. Based on these documents the draft protocol was developed by CEEweb and ETE with the input of the following international experts:
- Oliver Hillel, Programme Officer, Sustainable Use, Tourism and Island Biodiversity at the Secretariat of CBD (Canada)
- Stefanos Fotiou, UNEP DTIE (France)
- Gabor Vereczi, UNWTO (Spain)
- Laszlo Puczko, Xellum Ltd. (Hungary)
- Jan Rohac, Amber Trail (Slovakia)
- Scott Muller, Codesta (Panama)
- Rainer Schliep, Environmental Information & Communication Services (EICS); (Germany)
- Michael Meyer, Ecological Tourism in Europe (Germany)
The second meeting of the TWG has revised and adopted the draft that is now available for comments.
Other information that may be useful for you to check before commenting the protocol includes:
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