This document outlines the rights of workers in the tourism industry. It states that the rights of both salaried and self-employed tourism workers should be guaranteed by national and local administrations. Tourism workers have the right to training and social protections. Entrepreneurs should also have free access to develop tourism businesses with few restrictions. Partnerships between organizations in different countries can help ensure sustainable tourism development and equitable distribution of benefits.
This document outlines the rights of workers in the tourism industry. It states that the rights of both salaried and self-employed tourism workers should be guaranteed by national and local administrations. Tourism workers have the right to training and social protections. Entrepreneurs should also have free access to develop tourism businesses with few restrictions. Partnerships between organizations in different countries can help ensure sustainable tourism development and equitable distribution of benefits.
This document outlines the rights of workers in the tourism industry. It states that the rights of both salaried and self-employed tourism workers should be guaranteed by national and local administrations. Tourism workers have the right to training and social protections. Entrepreneurs should also have free access to develop tourism businesses with few restrictions. Partnerships between organizations in different countries can help ensure sustainable tourism development and equitable distribution of benefits.
This document outlines the rights of workers in the tourism industry. It states that the rights of both salaried and self-employed tourism workers should be guaranteed by national and local administrations. Tourism workers have the right to training and social protections. Entrepreneurs should also have free access to develop tourism businesses with few restrictions. Partnerships between organizations in different countries can help ensure sustainable tourism development and equitable distribution of benefits.
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ARTICLE 9
RIGHTS OF THE WORKERS AND ENTREPRENEURS IN THE TOURISM
INDUSTRY ARTICLE 9 •The fundamental rights of salaried and self-employed workers in the tourism industry and related activities, should be guaranteed under the supervision of the national and local administrations, both of their States of origin and of the host countries with particular care, given the specific constraints linked in particular to the seasonality of their activity, the global dimension of their industry and the flexibility often required of them by the nature of their work •Salaried and self-employed workers in the tourism industry and related activities have the right and the duty to acquire appropriate initial and continuous training; they should be given adequate social protection; job insecurity should be limited so far as possible; and a specific status, with particular regard to their social welfare, should be offered to seasonal workers in the sector; ARTICLE 9 •Any natural or legal person, provided he, she or it has the necessary abilities and skills, should be entitled to develop a professional activity in the field of tourism under existing national laws; entrepreneurs and investors - especially in the area of small and medium-sized enterprises - should be entitled to free access to the tourism sector with a minimum of legal or administrative restrictions; •Exchanges of experience offered to executives and workers, whether salaried or not, from different countries, contributes to foster the development of the world tourism industry; these movements should be facilitated so far as possible in compliance with the applicable national laws and international conventions; •As an irreplaceable factor of solidarity in the development and dynamic growth of international exchanges, multinational enterprises of the tourism industry should not exploit the dominant positions they sometimes occupy; they should avoid becoming the vehicles of cultural and social models artificially imposed on the host communities ARTICLE 9 •Partnership and the establishment of balanced relations between enterprises of generating and receiving countries contribute to the sustainable development of tourism and an equitable distribution of the benefits of its growth ARTICLE 10 •The public and private stakeholders in tourism development should cooperate in the implementation of these principles and monitor their effective application; •The stakeholders in tourism development should recognize the role of international institutions, among which the World Tourism Organization ranks first, and non-governmental organizations with competence in the field of tourism promotion and development, the protection of human rights, the environment or health, with due respect for the general principles of international law; •The same stakeholders should demonstrate their intention to refer any disputes concerning the application or interpretation of the Global Code of Ethics for Tourism for conciliation to an impartial third body known as the World Committee on Tourism Ethics.