Tourism and Peace: towards the Jubilee 2025 - Message for World Tourism Day

21-07-24

The central theme of the Message for the 45th World Tourism Day, promoted by the First Section of the Dicastery for Evangelization, is “Tourism and Peace”. This binomial, chosen by the United Nations World Tourism Organization, will be the focus of the traditional celebration on September 27, 2024.

The Message highlights the relevance of tourism as a vehicle for reflection and personal commitment. “One could not think of a better choice,” it states, underlining how cultural exchange, which finds in tourism its most effective expression, can be transformed into a concrete commitment for peace.

In current times, marked by wars and their devastating consequences, tourism has suffered greatly. “The lack of tourists creates a further expression of poverty among the population, which sees the disappearance of a form of livelihood necessary to live with dignity,” the text notes.