Students of Tourism learn more about the UN and SDGs

UNIC together with Parto Tourism Institute organized “Finding UN Information and Documentation” workshop for some 35 university students of tourism who are members of the institute. The theme of the workshop which was held at the UN building on 14 March 2017 was on tourism, cultural heritage and handicrafts with a focus on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), AVA Diplomatic reports.

UNIC Reference Assistant Ms. Nazanin Ghaemmaghmi elaborated on basic facts about the UN, UN General Assembly and its resolutions on UN observances including the one which named 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development as well as World Tourism Day (27 September).

Then she briefed the participants on high-level meetings of General Assembly in 2015, namely Sustainable Development Summit and Sustainable Development Goals. Among the 17 goals, she focused on goal 8 target 9, goal 12 target 10 and goal 14 target 7 which are dealing with tourism. The participants also navigated through the websites of UNWTO, UNESCO and UNEP.

Ms. Soraya Jamali Nazari as the Managing Director of the Institute and the professor of the students who organized the session, expressed her own and the participants’ satisfaction from the workshop and thanked UNIC for the cooperation with the Institute.