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UNWTO Secretary-General: We have to implement travel standards to ensure security and safety

Tbilisi, Sep 17 (EFE), (Camera: Enrique del Viso).- The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) will develop an international code for the protection of tourists for the post-COVID 19 scenario and will promote coordination between countries to establish security standards, UNWTO Secretary-General Zurab Pololikashvili said in an interview with Efe on the occasion of the UNWTO Executive Council hold in Tbilisi. FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF UNWTO SECRETARY-GENERAL ZURAB POLOLIKASHVILI:"Our role is precisely this: coordinate and support countries. Communicating with them. Identifying and reach an agreement under some standards about how we can travel and organise travel corridors between countries. We have different examples of this. For example, the European Union has its own policy, which is not dependant on the UNWTO. But we gave it some recommendations. In America, the United States had its own policy, as well as South America. We are facing very difficult moments. Our role consists in searching, so we have advised the Executive Council to find a group of countries that will be flexible to agree and be coordinated to implement a standard regarding how we will travel until the situation goes back to normal."