WORLD TOURISM DAY TO BE CELEBRATED SEPTEMBER 27

VATICAN CITY, SEP 23, 1999 (VIS) - The 20th World Tourism Day will be celebrated throughout the world on Monday, September 27 on the theme "Tourism: An Instrument for Protecting the World Patrimony for the New Millennium." This world day is concomitant with the 13th general assembly of the World Tourism Organization (WTO), which will be held in Santiago, Chile, from September 24 to October 1.

The Holy See will be represented at this biennial meeting with a delegation led by Msgr. Piero Monni, the permanent observer to the WTO, and by experts in the field of tourism. The general assembly is expected to approve a World Code of Ethics of Tourism.

Msgr. Monni will address the assembly on September 28. He is scheduled to highlight the importance of this code of ethics, as well as the Holy See's attention to this theme and to others such as the religion factor in world tourism and the problem of sustainable tourism.

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