 The
top elected representatives of the three Principal
Partners signed the Declaration of Volos
for Sustainable Development through Tourism,
at the University of Thessaly during the opening
session of the final symposium on 5 September
2002. This Declaration states the commitment
of the partners to working together towards
sustainable development through comprehensive
planning for sustainable tourism with environmental
management of tourist destinations and activities,
in accordance with relevant documents and initiatives
of the European Union, and to encourage other
local and regional authorities throughout Europe
to adopt this declaration so as to join the
partners in the establishment of a network of
local authorities working together for the sustainable
development of tourism, and in particular ecological
and cultural tourism, through the protection,
upgrading and restoration of the environment
and the preservation and promotion of the cultural
heritage in Europe, our common land.
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