Co-Operation Between the United Nations and the World Tourism Organization

Recommends that intensified negotiations to that end be held between the United Nations and the International Union of Official Travel Organisations with a view to finalizing a draft agreement;

Recommends that the report of the Secretary- General on co-operation and relationships between the United Nations and the International Union of Official Travel Organisations10 should be revised in the light of the discussions at the eighth session of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination, the fiftieth session of the Economic and Social Council and the twenty-sixth session of the General Assembly, and submitted to the Council at its fifty-third session in arder to enable the Council to give concrete directions to determine the course of the negotiations;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Economic and Social Council at its fifty-third session, through the Committee for Programme and Coordination, a report on the activities of the United Nations family in the field of development of tourism;

Recommends that steps should be taken, as appropriate and with due regard to procedures of the United Nations Development Programme, to enable the designation of the World Tourism Organization as a participating and executing agency of the Programme in arder to assist that organization in carrying out its functions related to the devclopment of tourism.