UN Tourism Strengthens Collaboration with Austria to Advance Sustainable Tourism

联合国世界旅游组织深化与奥地利合作以推进可持续旅游

UN Tourism and Austria have discussed opportunities for further collaboration and for strengthening partnerships in the areas of sustainability, statistics and development.

联合国世界旅游组织（UNWTO）与奥地利共同探讨了在可持续发展、统计及旅游开发领域深化合作与伙伴关系的机遇。

In Vienna, UN Tourism Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili held high-level meetings, reaffirming Austria’s important role in advancing sustainable tourism, including through having six of its villages as members of UN Tourism´s Best Tourism Village Programme and the region of Tyrol as one of the latest members of the International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories (INSTO).

在维也纳，联合国世界旅游组织秘书长祖拉布・波洛利卡什维利主持召开高级别会议，重申奥地利在推动可持续旅游方面的重要作用。该国六个村庄入选 UNWTO"最佳旅游乡村计划"，蒂罗尔地区成为国际可持续旅游观测站网络（INSTO）最新成员之一，彰显了这一作用。

In a meeting with Susanne Kraus-Winkler, State Secretary for Tourism (Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy), discussions highlighted Austria’s critical leadership as Co-Chair of the Committee on Statistics. The focus was on implementing the Statistical Framework for Measuring the Sustainability of Tourism (MST), endorsed by the United Nations Statistical Commission earlier this year. Austria’s leadership has been instrumental in developing this internationally agreed framework, which provides essential concepts, definitions, and structures to measure tourism’s economic, social, and environmental impacts and dependencies.

在与奥地利联邦劳工与经济部旅游国务秘书苏珊娜・克劳斯 - 温克勒的会晤中，双方重点讨论了奥地利作为统计委员会联合主席的关键领导作用。议题聚焦于落实联合国统计委员会今年早些时候批准的《旅游业可持续发展统计框架》（SF-MST）。奥地利在制定这一国际公认框架过程中发挥了主导作用，该框架为衡量旅游业的经济、社会和环境影响及依赖关系提供了核心概念、定义和结构体系。

Secretary-General Pololikashvili said: “A leading tourism destination like Austria can play an important role in advancing global tourism issues, such as the SF-MST, while at the same time to ensure that through such measurement instruments tourism remains a key driver of sustainable and inclusive development. UN Tourism commends Austria’s clear commitment to shaping a sustainable and resilient tourism future, and its leadership at both the regional and global level in this regard that also is highlighted through a comparatively big number of Best Tourism Villages and one of the leading destinations as a member in the INSTO Network.”

波洛利卡什维利秘书长指出："作为领先旅游目的地，奥地利在推进全球旅游议题（如 SF-MST 框架）方面可发挥重要作用，同时通过此类评估工具确保旅游业持续成为可持续包容性发展的核心驱动力。联合国世界旅游组织高度赞赏奥地利对塑造可持续韧性旅游未来的坚定承诺，以及其通过大量 ' 最佳旅游乡村 ' 和作为 INSTO 网络重要成员所展现的区域及全球领导力。"

During talks with Ambassador Harald Stranzl, Director for Foreign Economic Relations (Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs), discussions centered on leveraging Austrian expertise to advance development cooperation in tourism. Both sides emphasized Austria’s potential to share its wealth of knowledge and technical capacity to drive sustainable tourism initiatives worldwide.

在与联邦欧洲及国际事务部对外经济关系司司长哈拉尔德・斯特兰茨尔大使的会谈中，双方重点探讨了如何发挥奥地利专业优势推进旅游发展合作。双方一致强调，奥地利具备向全球分享其丰富知识和技术能力的巨大潜力，以推动可持续旅游倡议。

According to UN Tourism’s latest data, Austria ranks 10th globally in international tourist arrivals, welcoming 30.9 million international arrivals in 2023. It also ranks at 19th in international tourism receipts, with the sector generating 22.8 billion EUR, last year, around 11% higher than in 2019.

据联合国世界旅游组织最新数据显示，奥地利 2023 年国际游客接待量达 3090 万人次，位居全球第十；国际旅游收入达 228 亿欧元，较 2019 年增长约 11%，位列全球第十九位。