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Dirk Glaesser
Dr. Dirk Glaesser is Director of the Sustainable Tourism and Resilience Department at UN Tourism (UNWTO), based in Madrid.
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Oct 2, 2026
UN Tourism Year of Sustainable Tourism and Resilience
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1:54Hjörtur SmarasonHOST
We are excited to learn more about the, the thoughts that the UN tourism has regarding, uh, the coming year and what we should focus on.
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2:04Dirk GlaesserGUEST
Thank, thank you very much, and Frederick, um, Hjörtur, thank you for the opportunity to share with you some of the preparations which are under, for quite some time under preparation and, and explaining to you what this international year is all about.
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2:21Dirk GlaesserGUEST
The 2027 preparations are building on the good experiences of two other international years which were conducted previously by the organization.
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2:36Dirk GlaesserGUEST
So the first international year, which we celebrated in 2002, was, uh, focusing on the year of ecotourism.
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2:47Dirk GlaesserGUEST
Uh, involved a lot of market research back then and culminated in releasing that and releasing, um, uh, information related to definitions of ecotourism coming from the different source markets.
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2:59Dirk GlaesserGUEST
I'm mentioning this because we took this inspiration for this international year, 2027.
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37:23Hjörtur SmarasonHOST
Um, when we think of sustainability and resilience and preparing for the post-2030 agenda, what do you see as the main threats at the moment to tourism?