During the Signing of the Cooperation Agreement between UNWTO and Qatar Tourism Authority, that took place on the 24th February in Doha, Qatar, 22 companies and associations signed the Commitment to the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism.
Eleven prominent Dominican companies signed the Commitment to the Global Code of Ethics on the occasion of the International Seminar on Tourism Destinations Management in Cultural Heritage Sites that was held on the 17th of February 2014 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
In December 2013 a total of 17 Portuguese associations signed the Commitment to the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism on the occasion of the 3rd UNWTO International Conference on Tourism and the Media, that took place in Estoril, at the coast of the region of Lisbon.
During the 1st Summit of Presidents of Travel Agencies Associations, that took place on the 7th November in Cordoba, Spain, 12 companies and associations signed the Commitment to the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism. The group included organisations from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa (SUSPENDED), Canada, Greece, Spain, Latvia, Cyprus and Norway.
In October 2013, six prominent European associations signed the Commitment on the occasion of the 12th European Tourism Forum – Tourism, a Force for Economic Growth, Social Change and Welfare (Vilnius, Lithuania), in the presence of H.E. Mr. Evaldas Gustas, Minister of Economy of Lithuania, and Mr. Taleb Rifai, UNWTO Secretary-General.
On the 1st of October 2013, in the context of the APEC High Level Policy Dialogue on Travel Facilitation, held in Bali, Indonesia, 25 Indonesian companies and associations signed the Commitment in the presence of Mr. Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General of UNWTO.
Signatories of the Private Sector Commitment to the Code from Indonesia (1 October 2013, Bali, Indonesia)
In August 2013, the the Chinese Chamber of Tourism, along with eight of the country´s most influential tourism corporations, signed the private sector’s commitment to the UNWTO Global Code of Ethics, in the context of the 6th UNWTO International Meeting on Silk Road Tourism held in Dunhuang, Gansu Province, P.R. China, an event jointly organized by UNWTO, China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) and Gansu Province of China.
On the 3rd of July 2013, 7 Romanian companies and associations, namely the Tourism Journalists and Writers Association in Romania (AJTR), the National Association of Travel Agencies in Romania (ANAT), the National Association of Tourist Resorts in Romania (ANSTR), the
On the 1st of June 2013, at the first signing ceremony held in Asia, 8 companies signed the Commitment at the 1st UNWTO Regional Conference on Tourism Partnerships: Future Tourism for Asia and the Pacific (29 May - 2 June 2013, Seoul, Republic of Korea).
A landmark 60 companies and associations from Costa Rica became signatories of the Commitment on the 13th of May, 2013, at an event held in the context of the 55th Meeting of the UNWTO Commission for the Americas in San Jose, Costa Rica, in the presence of H.E. Mr. Allan Flores, Minister of Tourism of Costa Rica, and Mr. Taleb Rifai, UNWTO Secretary-General.