Tourism has numerous consequences on societies and environment. It is the sole human activity that leads us, in a massive way, for better and for worse, to a face-to-face encounter between the well-to-do populations of the North and the sometimes poor populations of the Southern continents, because of their beauty and climate, and often because of their preserved cultures as well.
This document is a collective work that was initially published in preparation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development of Johannesburg (South Africa) at the end of the summer of 2002, by a group of about 15 German and Swiss NGOs, gathered for the occasion under the name of DANTE (Network for a Sustainable Development of Tourism).
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