Adopted by UNWTO General Assembly in 1999, the GCET is a comprehensive set of principles whose purpose is to guide stakeholders in tourism development promoting ethical values, traditions and cultural heritage of the host countries, individual and collective fulfilment, equality between men and women, universal right to tourism and tourist movement, fundamental rights of workers in tourism industry, sustainable economic growth and implementation of the stated principles.
According to the protocol establishing the Consortium for the Joint Tour Package, the member travel agencies of the consortium need to sign the GCET.
Other member tour agencies of the Consortium, 11 in total, signed the GCET on 7 June 2016 in Cholpon-Ata during the 3rd Meeting of Ministers of Tourism of the Turkic Council. Up until now, Dünya Değişmeden Travel Agency, that became the Coordinator of the Consortium representing Turkey along with HIS Travel at the 12th Meeting of Turkic Council Working Group on Tourism (7 June 2018, Almaty), has not signed the GCET.
The part on the GCET was included to the protocol on the establishment of the Consortium based on the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Turkic Council and UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) with the belief that it will help evolve and expand the Joint Tour Package.
The Joint Tour Package, the initiative of the Turkic Council in the tourism sector, provides prospective tourists from across the globe with a unique opportunity to meet the remnants, traces, and legacy of the civilizations lying along with the Great Silk Road in the heart Eurasia.
