Health without Borders

The World Tourism Network (WTN) in partnership with the African Tourism Board (ATB) is pleased to announce its newest initiative:

“Health without borders”

Because there is no way to separate travel from the world’s current, or future pandemics, and tourism is about bringing people together, the WTN recognizes the need for the global travel and tourism industry to become an integrated part of the decision making and policy process in a response to the current COVID-19 and should there be future pandemics.

The world’s Statemen and Nobel laureates recognize that in an interconnected world

“No one is safe until everyone is safe”.

In the modern world, the travel and tourism industry plays an essential role in this vision.

It is for this reason that the WTN’s international project

“Health without Borders/ Santé sans frontiers”

seeks universal vaccine coverage for all people around the world.

• The WTN aligns with the idea the “travel and tourism” industry supports an international focus on countries and regions unable to get full access to the vaccine.
• The WTN, representing international small and medium-sized businesses around the world recognizes that these are the first businesses to suffer during a pandemic and travel closure.
• The WTN pledges its efforts not only to increase cooperation between countries by working closely with stakeholders, but it also seeks to facilitate the international movement of tourists by addressing restrictive travel barriers and fostering mutual understanding and collaboration.
• The WTN extends its hand not only to other organizations and initiatives in the travel and tourism industry but to NGO’s, health professionals, government leaders, and the pharmaceutical industry.

WTN’s “Health without Borders” initiative seeks a world with greater international cooperation, thus allowing people a safe and healthy world in which to exercise their human right to travel.

One step toward this goal is universal vaccination thus creating global herd immunity.

The WTN encourages all to join it as it seeks a more humane world and a world in which the global tourism industry can help the world to see the first blossoms of greater health and prosperity.

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