Dr. Hormatollah Rafiei, Director Common of the Affiliation of Air Transport and Journey Brokers of Iran (AATTAI), issued an official assertion calling for peace via tourism by selling cooperation, cultural change, and financial collaboration.
There’s at all times a human and a tourism facet to any geo-political battle. As former UNWTO Secretary Common Dr. Taleb Rifai noticed, tourism serves as a custodian of worldwide peace, understanding, and cultural change.
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Politics can be taught
There’s additionally a non-political facet that politics can be taught from, and that is the idea of peace via tourism. Dr. Hormatollah Rafiei, Director Common, and his crew from the Affiliation of Air Transport and Journey Brokers of Iran (AATTAI) perceive this and issued an official assertion and attraction to the world to hitch Iran in its ambition, exhibiting their pleasant and welcoming face within the journey and tourism sector. Iran is a full member of the UNWTO (UN Tourism).
Peace via Tourism: A Historic and Future Perspective.
The retired founding father of the Worldwide Institute for Peace By means of Tourism, Louis D’Amore, laid out the main points in his 2018 e book, A Historic and Future.
“Journey is deadly to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and plenty of of our individuals want it sorely on these accounts.“
World leaders have lengthy acknowledged the vital position of “Citizen Diplomacy” in selling mutual understanding. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower knew from his expertise as a army commander that strange residents of various nations might bridge political and social divides the place governments couldn’t. “I’ve lengthy believed, as have many earlier than me,” he stated, “that peaceable relations between nations require understanding and mutual respect between people.”
Iran’s Official Assertion via the Air Transport and Journey Brokers of Iran (AATTAI):
From the Affiliation of Air Transport and Journey Brokers of Iran (AATTAI)
Dr. Hormatollah Rafiei, Director Common
In an period marked by growing geopolitical tensions, regional conflicts, and cultural misunderstandings, the Affiliation of Air Transport and Journey Brokers of Iran (AATTAI) reaffirms its unwavering dedication to the transformative energy of tourism as a automobile for peace, mutual understanding, and world solidarity.
Iran, a land of historic civilization and profound cultural heritage, stands able to function a bridge between nations, fostering dialogue, empathy, and appreciation throughout borders. We firmly consider that each traveler is a messenger of peace, and that every journey represents a chance to nurture respect, encounter shared humanity, and break down limitations—each seen and invisible.
At this vital juncture, we prolong a honest invitation to all tourism associations, aviation our bodies, journey organizations, and worldwide companions worldwide to hitch forces with us. Allow us to work collectively to leverage the facility of cultural change, sustainable tourism, and financial cooperation, shifting past present regional crises and towards a extra peaceable and interconnected world.
Our imaginative and prescient is one in every of a future formed not by division, however by unity—the place bridges are constructed rather than partitions, and belief is cultivated rather than concern.
Allow us to embark on this path of peace collectively, the place dialogue replaces discord, and the place each traveler contributes to a extra compassionate world group.
With profound respect and within the spirit of cooperation,
Dr. Hormatollah Rafiei
Director Common
Affiliation of Air Transport and Journey Brokers of Iran (AATTAI)
