Title: Interest of the African initiative for sustainable tourism to improve the ranking of the level of tourism development given by the World Bank in any African country that wishes, with our support: Resolution No. A / RES / 572 (XVIII ) of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

Subtitle: African Initiative: An exceptional opportunity for each African country to create wealth and jobs with 32 concrete projects.

Resolution No. A / RES / 572 (XVIII) of the 18th General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in 2009 on the African Initiative for sustainable tourism, offers a unique opportunity for all countries Africans who wish to improve the ranking of tourism development level that was assigned in the report of the World Bank, the link is below.

The context of the classification of countries is presented in Note 1 of my blog. The necessary strategies are already prepared for this and many supporters of the technical and financial partners and the private sector are obtained. Just as the country concerned, requesting our support and demonstrate a real political will to initiate within it, the catalytic converter power transformer and sustainable tourism.

African Initiative: Extended coordination solution of all related sectors to sustainable tourism.

Indeed, tourism is a complex service industry, at the crossroads of economic issues, environmental, social, heritage and culture, in direct connection with the challenges of sustainable development namely: climate change, energy issues, transport, consumption and generation , natural resource management, health, social inclusion, demography and migration, poverty reduction etc.,. and competitiveness.

Similarly, existing types of tourism are many and varied including:

Nature tourism, experimental cultural tourism, agri-tourism, historical tourism, health tourism and wellness, medical tourism, religious or spiritual tourism, sports tourism, scientific tourism etc.

African initiative to unleash the catalytic converter power transformer and sustainable tourism

Statistics from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), indicate that domestic tourism flows are 10 times higher than international flows. These are valued in 2015 to 1 billion 133 million tourists, with prospects to reach more than one billion eight hundred million (1,800,000,000) in 2030, are about 18 billion domestic tourist movements.

Positive social transformations that these flows will induce in terms of wealth creation and employment are very important.

However to achieve this, there are many challenges in terms of sustainability and competitiveness.

African Initiative: The North cooperation tool south and south-south through excellence in sustainable tourism

It therefore appears clearly difficult for Benin in particular and African countries in general, to cope alone with these requirements, without the support of international cooperation in a globalized and interconnected world.

That is why the African initiative was rightly initiated to mobilize the United Nations agencies and their networks through the "delivery as one (united in the action of the United Nations)," and all other technical and financial partners involved in related sub-sectors of tourism: transport infrastructure, energy, culture, environment, agriculture, water supply networks, electricity, communications, etc., to mobilize two (2) main resources necessary for the development of sustainable tourism: the expertise and funding.

The initiative also allows the pilot countries to share funding and technical assistance mobilized, along with every other member countries are, with whom they enter into cooperation on any of the 10 specific projects that makes up the public component.

The initiative also allows you to enjoy international recognition, its inter-sectoral dynamics, as well as networking activities it carries through public / private partnerships to support the implementation of 22 projects of the private component.

The goal is to make a reference, inspiring best practices and proven success in tourism, the existing African and global, have helped generate financial resources and create jobs by expertise, knowledge, good governance, public-private partnership, cooperation and networking.

It is to this end that the coordination of the implementation of the initiative, was asked at the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa (UEMOA) and the African Development Economic Community of West (ECOWAS).

Ministers and experts of tourism of the two African institutions of economic and social integration in regional, have positively in favor of the initiative in 2010 and 2012. It should be that the process continues at EU level African and UN.

African Initiative: A powerful tool for sustainable tourism territorial structure

The main objective of the African Initiative, is to support the creation of Tourist Development Zones (HAZ), that can give a chance to balanced sustainable tourism development of the countries and municipalities around the main resources are:

• The maritime coast,

• The banks of rivers,

• The historical and royal palaces,

• National parks, forests,

• The natural, historic and cultural through the creation of theme parks,

• Etc.

All activities qu'induiront travelers, as part of the competitive and sustainable implementation of programs and projects arising from the initiative will allow an inclusive tourism development and deep social transformations on the continent.

African initiative to change the "mainland tourist Give '

Thus, the African Initiative, offers Benin, an exceptional opportunity to improve its tourism positioning as a country "potential" according to the World Bank.

The expert team coordinator of the initiative, is seeking the country that wants to become a leader, registering its activities in the framework of Resolution No. A / RES / 572 (XVIII) of UNWTO to pull up, all the other countries of black Africa, sharing with them the dividends of that commitment.

Volunteers countries will therefore be pilot cases, including the major constraints hampering the development of sustainable tourism, will be lifted through national cooperation, sub-regional, continental and international, to create wealth, accelerate the fight against unemployment and poverty and achieving the Development Goals Sustainable, coming out of the box.

The success can then be replicated in other countries.

Guy Apan JOHNSON author of the initiative

http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/document/Africa/Report/africa-tourism-report-2013-overview-fr.pdf