www.sos.travel

[Susie]

I think this is new, and different from the other UN initiative. If not, please delete

http://www.sos.travel/


Susan

 

[Niko]

Re: www.sos.travel

Thanks Susie! Haven't seen this one.

From the site:

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</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left; padding-left: 4px;" colspan="2"> The United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Emergency Management System (EMS) and Tourism Emergency Response Network (TERN) Site and related online activities are a free public service provided by the UNWTO and other public and private Site Partners, including the Microsoft Corporation.

The World Tourism Organization, the lead UN agency for the sector, is supporting the industry and its consumers by keeping them regularly informed on the evolving avian influenza situation and recommended response measures.

It is also supporting tourism administrations in their actions within national and international preparedness plans.

The UNWTO is working in a network of government and industry bodies committed to making travel as safe as possible and to ensuring that the sector is fully prepared for any influenza developments. This multi-stakeholder framework ? Tourism Emergency Response Network (TERN) - is designed as a global resource for the sector with UNWTO as convener and portal provider. Its goal is to facilitate information exchange among the different components of the tourism chain and ensure consistency of messages for the public.

This website was established as an information system to provide good, accurate and timely information, to synthesize the rapidly changing situation and to focus its tourism related aspects and impacts. This includes dissemination of information from UN, government, industry, public, media and other relevant sources. It will serve as a reference point for involved public sector, private sector and civil society interests, as well as travelers themselves. We plan over time, with help from partners, to make this a global portal support resource for the sector
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[Susie]

Re: www.sos.travel

It seems as if now, serious amounts of money and effort are being spent on preparations. I wonder how soon it will go to Stage 4 , and what will happen then.