LONDON, 20 July 2021: The World Travel
& Tourism Council has released major new guidelines outlining how the
global Travel & Tourism sector can work together to tackle illegal wildlife
trade (IWT).
The new guidelines from WTTC, which
represents the global private travel and tourism sector, with support from
Animondial, a key advisor to the global travel industry on animal welfare in
tourism, aiming to help interpret the ‘12 Commitments’ of its game-changing
Buenos Aires Declaration.
The declaration, which was launched at
WTTC’s Global Summit in Argentina, showed how coordinated commitment and action
could combat the illegal trade in wildlife (IWT) and unveiled its Zero