55th Meeting of the UNWTO Commission for the Americas

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in conjunction with the Ministry of Tourism of Costa Rica, has the pleasure to invite UNWTO Members to the celebration of the statutory meeting of the 55th UNWTO Commission for the Americas to be held in San Jose, Costa Rica, from 13th-15th May 2013. The Commission meeting will be followed by the Technical Seminar on Tourism and New Technologies aimed at the tourism industry stakeholders in general.

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NOTE: In compliance with the United Nations system’s environmental protection policy, the working documents for the 55th Meeting of the UNWTO Commission for the Americas will not be distributed on paper at the venue of the event. Therefore, the delegates are requested to bring their own set of documents provided below:

Information Note

Information Note II

Sequence of Activities

Working documents:

1. Provisional Agenda

2. Communication of the Chairman of the Commission (Costa Rica)

3. Report of the Secretary-General (CAM/55/3)

3.3 Progress report on the implementation of the Programme of Work for 2012-2013 (CAM/55/3.3)

3.4 New publications (CAM/55/3.4) / Presentation

3.5 Update on the draft UNWTO Convention on the Protection of Tourists and Tourism Service Providers (CAM/55/3.5)

3.5 Annex (Draft Convention on the Protection of Tourists and Tourism Service Providers)

3.6 Progress report on the implementation of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism and report on World Committee on Tourism Ethics (CAM/55/3.6)