World Tourism Day 2023: Why is World Tourism Day celebrated only on 27th September? Know the history and this year's theme..

World Tourism Day 2023: Tourism plays a major role in the economy of any country. Tourists coming from India and abroad spend money on everything from transport to hotels, restaurants, and tickets to tourist places. Due to this revenue increases. Those who are fond of traveling keep searching for new tourist destinations. World Tourism Day is celebrated every year to attract tourists and increase awareness to promote tourism for many reasons.

World Tourism Day helps in increasing tourism at the international level so that countries can be connected in terms of tourism. Apart from their own country, travelers also get to know about foreign tourist places and get to know the foreign culture closely through tourism of other countries. But do you know when World Tourism Day is celebrated? When and how did celebrating this day begin? Let us know the date, history, and importance of World Tourism Day.

When is World Tourism Day celebrated?
India celebrates its National Tourism Day on 25 January. However, globally Tourism Day is celebrated on 27th September. This year also International Tourism Day is being celebrated on 27 September 2023.

History of World Tourism Day
World Tourism Day was celebrated for the first time in 1980. This day was started by the United Nations World Trade Organization (UNWTO). There was a special reason for celebrating World Tourism Day on 27th September. On this day in 1970, the United Nations World Trade Organization was recognized. It was decided to celebrate World Tourism Day on the anniversary of UNWTO.

Why celebrate World Tourism Day
The purpose of celebrating Tourism Day is to promote employment through tourism, to make people aware of tourism, and to give information to people about as many tourist destinations as possible.

The theme of Tourism Day and which country is hosting it?
Every year World Tourism Day is hosted by one country of the world. The host country of World Tourism Day in the year 2022 was Indonesia. This time Saudi Arabia is hosting World Tourism Day 2023.

World Tourism Day has a special theme. The theme of the last seven is Rethinking Tourism. This theme was decided to pay more attention to the huge loss that tourism had suffered due to the Corona epidemic. The theme of World Tourism Day 2023 is Tourism And Green Investments.