Officials promote new tourism wave(2)

Declaration excerpts

The Macao Declaration, which passed at the eighth APEC Tourism Ministerial Meeting, includes the following:

Importance of work

"We, tourism ministers and representatives of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation member economies, hope that APEC leaders will fully recognize the significance of promoting Asia-Pacific tourism cooperation and development and consider the aforementioned aspiration in the Declaration of the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting to be held in Beijing."

Integration of APEC tourism market

"We recommend that APEC member economies discuss the necessity and feasibility of enhancing tourism coordination mechanisms in the Asia-Pacific region, to guide and encourage member economies to further enhance cooperation in tourism products development, marketing and promotion, tourist services, international tourism investment, taxation policy for tourism growth, personnel education and training, job creation through tourism, etc."

The convergence of tourism and other industries

"We encourage the APEC Tourism Working Group to share the best practices of integrated development of tourism and various industries and to initiate a series of demonstration projects within APEC."

Smart tourism

"We encourage APEC member economies to boost innovation, explore and promote smart tourism and related cooperation and share business and other opportunities that come along with smart tourism."

Low-carbon tourism

"We encourage all member economies to take the APEC Growth Strategy 2010 for low-carbon development as a reference and, while implementing their respective tourism policies, consider cooperating on low-carbon tourism development in the Asia-Pacific region."

Connectivity among members

"We unanimously agree that strengthening tourism cooperation is an effective way to promote connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region. With respect to physical connectivity, growth of tourism can push forward infrastructure development, such as land, maritime and air transport, highways, railways, seaports, airports, water delivery, communications and Internet access."