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The NationStates United Nations,

NOTING that tourism is an important part of almost every nation's economy,

FURTHER NOTING that tourism can also have negative effects on the enviroment and local peoples and culture,

DECLARES that the following shall be made law in all member nations:

The following guidelines will be used to make sure that the tourism industry does not have any negative impacts.

-Save natural resources. Try not to waste water. Switch off lights and appliances when not in use. Discourage all business that clearly consume limited resources at the expense of local residents and the enivronment. Don't litter. Do not take home any exotic pets. Do not cause any damage to the environment.

-Support local enterprise. Encourage locally and employee-owned hotels and businesses and support trade and craft workers by buying locally made souvenirs.

-Promote the asking of people by tours before they take close-up photographs of them.

-Encourage respect for all cultures. Leave it as you found it: don't take home fossils or artifacts.

-Educate people on the local history and current affairs.

The United Nations shall create the United Nations Commision on Tourism to make sure all nations follow these guidelines.

although theres some good ideas which any tourist board would probally be doing already, I still feel this is unnecessary micro-management.

the first section about saving natural resources is commonsense anyway and any tourist board worth its salt would be encouraging the local craft industry.

this does not have the support of the Empire.

ambassador Kaigan Miromuta

I agree with Kirisubo about micro-management. This is best left to the individual nations to descide how they run things. BTW Come visit the Palentine, our Dolphins swear like drunken sailors.
Excelsior,
Sen. Horatio Sulla


*this message sponcered by the Palentine Board of Tourism*

Category? Strength?

This seems an awful mish-mash of categories. Environmental? Free Trade? Moral Decency? Gotta pick one - and that makes you lose half your clauses.

EDIT: i.e. what he said.

I won't just write this off straight away, but do have some suggestions if the author is interested. This is an interesting idea.

Perhaps instead of things like turning lights off ect, you could focus more on a rights and responsibilities type thing for visitors to other nations. Things like..

A requirement to respect and follow the visited nations laws, even if they differ from the home nation, and the right of the visited nation to try and punish any visitor who breaks those laws. A visitor would be entitled to seek help and advice from their nation's embassy, but the home nation can't interfere in the actual trial and punishment process.

The right for nations to compel visitors to comply with any entry/exit requirements, such as security checks, prohibited imports/exports ect.

A right for visitors to seek and take up employment in the visited nation if its laws allow for that.

That sort of thing.

Waterana, I don't reckon a resolution is needed to enforce most of those things. All nations have the right to enforce their own laws in their own territory (subject to international law, but at present to the best of my knowledge there is nothing in UN law which would affect the ability of a nation to do any of those things), so we can already arrest visitors who break our laws, force them to comply with entry/exit requirements, and allow/disallow them to work. We don't have any obligation to allow foreign powers to interfere with trials of their citizens either.

The right for defendants to be able to contact their home governments for support and advice, however, might be worth doing a proposal on. Perhaps you could require that if a government charges someone with a crime who is not a citizen of that nation, the government must notify the home government of the accused and allow them to communicate and offer legal advice and support, unless the two nations are at war?

The right for defendants to be able to contact their home governments for support and advice, however, might be worth doing a proposal on. Perhaps you could require that if a government charges someone with a crime who is not a citizen of that nation, the government must notify the home government of the accused and allow them to communicate and offer legal advice and support, unless the two nations are at war?

Good idea; might be worth including in the Visa/Passport act (I'm going to seperate them)

No worries about that _Myopia_, I was just giving the author some ideas. Sorry if they were silly ones.

I agree with you about the possibilities of a proposal around the right to contact the home nation for help though. Especially if there are language problems :).

if theres an embassy or consulate of the persons nation in the country they are visiting they'd be involved anyway if that person was arrested.

it's a good idea for a proposal so that right can be covered if its isn't already.

No worries about that _Myopia_, I was just giving the author some ideas. Sorry if they were silly ones.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound harsh. I didn't think they were silly ideas - they're generally good principles - but that technically I think they're already in effect, because they haven't been legislated on.

Fourhearts would be against such mircomanagement. We happen to do a fairly decent job at balancing the economy and the enviroment and we don't need the UN's advice on it.

This would we believe violate thr sovereignty of the Empire and of all UN member nations, we could/will not support such an action

This would we believe violate thr sovereignty of the Empire and of all UN member nations, we could/will not support such an action

How? It's just setting guidelines for those people who are planning on visiting another country. And I'm not sure the NatSov argument is treading as much water as it used to. I still wouldn't vote for this because it would be too much nitpicking for my tastes.

my idea of tourist guidelines is the little booklet that a tourist would be given when they arrive at the airport which lists the major laws of that nation.

This idea was talked about a while ago and is a better basis of a proposal than a list of things which may or may not apply in your nation.

If a proposal covered that idea I would certainly attract my interest.

Ambassador Kaigan Miromuta

This is micromanagment, if tourism has a negative effect on a certain country then that nation could simply increase taxes/bring in their own guidelines.