UN Tourism observes 27th September as World Tourism Day focusing on the “role of tourism in the international community.”
Let’s take this day beyond the platitudes and mobilize for community-led ethical tourism that is free of Israeli apartheid and genocide. Let’s escalate our pressure on Booking.com, Airbnb and other tourism companies to end their complicity in Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated against Indigenous Palestinians. Through our No Room for Genocide campaign we have been building grassroots power to pressure those complicit companies and to deny safe haven to genocidaires and war criminals complicit in Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza.
Join our webinar and organize peaceful, coordinated action in your community.
I. Webinar summary:
Ethical Tourism: Travelling Without Financing Genocide & Apartheid
3 pm Palestine time, September 27th
For over a year, the No Room for Genocide campaign has been building connections across the world as ordinary people of conscience refuse to let their towns, villages and communities be used as safe havens by suspected perpetrators and enablers of Israel’s genocide and war crimes. What started as spontaneous actions refusing silence in the face of Israel’s ongoing mass atrocities have now become a campaign that is redefining ethical tourism. B&B’s, cafes, tour groups and networks that have been building sustainable, community-centered tourism find a natural ally in this campaign.
Join us for an intersectional discussion with activists, researchers and hospitality business owners on what motivates them to build this ethical tourism campaign and how to join.
Panellists:
Nives Monda, Apartheid Free Zone organizer and restaurateur, Taverna a Santa Chiara, Naples, Italy
Falastine D, Researcher, Booking.com: get off stolen Palestinian land campaign, Ekō
K. Muuq, Anti-racism organizer, Thailand
Link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85132785821
Duration: 1 hour
Language: English
II. Genocide-free Landmarks
On this day, get together with your community of activists, friends and family, make your way to a local tourism landmark -- a beach, a monument, a scenic spot or any other public spot. Carry a banner or poster(s) from our graphics collection and take a group selfie/photograph with it. Find our pamphlet in the collection and share it with those taking interest in your action.
Organize peaceful solidarity gatherings to declare: No Room for Genocide.
You can find our campaign graphics here, and feel free to translate the slogans on them. Share your clear, guidelines-adhering image with us on our social media.
Please note the following guidelines:
- Ensure your gathering is peaceful. Adhere to local regulations.
- There is zero tolerance for any form of racism, discrimination, abuse or misbehavior.
- Slogans and messages must be part of the No Room for Genocide campaign and the broader BDS movement.
- We reserve the right to not share and/or to remove tags from any images that violate our guidelines and cannot be associated with such images/social media content.
Wish to connect with us?
- If you are a host and would like to know more about our campaign, follow this link to know more about Sanctuaries of Peace.
- If you love to travel ethically, sign our Drop Apartheid from your Baggage pledge.