Tokaj has been chosen by the United Nations World Tourism Group (UNWTO) as one of many world’s greatest highlighted settlements, the primary time a Hungarian municipality has received such a prestigious tourism award, the Hungarian Tourism Company introduced.
The historic city, celebrating the 950th anniversary of its basis, received the Finest Tourism Villages of 2023 award in competitors with 260 settlements from 5 continents. The celebrated worldwide award is in recognition of the renovations carried out thus far and is a driving power for additional tourism developments on a historic scale, with the intention of creating the eponymous village of the World Heritage wine area and Tokaji aszú wine one of the crucial widespread locations in Hungary.
Picture: Fb/Tokaji Aszú Store
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The UNWTO is the group for the administration and improvement of tourism worldwide. The Finest Tourism Villages by the UNWTO initiative was launched by the group to lift consciousness of the position of tourism in rural improvement. Launched in 2021, the initiative acknowledges rural locations that, along with their excellent tourism improvement, additionally emphasize the preservation and promotion of native values and merchandise, and take care to take care of financial, social, and environmental sustainability.
Talking on the award ceremony held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, the Mayor of Tokaj, György Posta, mentioned that the award was a recognition of the persistent work that had been carried out over time.
The award can be utilized in all of Tokaj’s nationwide and worldwide promoting, serving to to draw extra vacationers than ever earlier than.
The jury, protecting a variety of disciplines, together with product improvement, advertising and marketing, cultural and pure useful resource conservation, has included 54 cities from 29 nations around the globe in its listing of one of the best vacationer locations of 2023. The listing, together with Peruvian, Ethiopian, Iranian, Indonesian, Japanese, and different locations, options Schladming in Austria, St. Anton am Arlberg in Austria, and Slunj in Croatia, amongst Hungary’s neighboring nations.
Through MTI, Featured picture: Fb/Tokaj Borvidék Fejlesztési Tanács
