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The working group has been formed to provide a joined-up Government approach
to sustainable tourism issues, in the context of the UK Sustainable Development
Strategy, and our WSSD commitment to work towards more sustainable patterns
of consumption and production. The group comprises officials from Government
Departments with an interest in domestic tourism, UK outbound tourism
and development of the tourism sector overseas including the Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Department for Culture
Media and Sport (DCMS), Department for International Development (DFID),
Department for Transport (DfT), Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)
and the Devolved Administrations.
The Group will aim to:
- Identify the main impacts of tourism (economic, social and environmental)
which need to inform policy development on the sustainability of tourism.
- See that these impacts - whether from domestic, inbound or outbound
tourism - are addressed in cross-government and departmental strategies
on sustainable development.
- Achieve better coordination of Government input to policy development
and other relevant activities at EU level and internationally.
- Review the Government's current approach to sustainable tourism, and
consider what action may be needed to strengthen and promote it.
- Work with agency and industry stakeholders to promote wider take-up
of principles of sustainable tourism and to identify the scope
for more strategic action across Government and by the tourism industry.
- Identify measures of progress on action within Government and take
them forward.
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