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Origin. Established in 1925 in The Hague as the International Union of Official Tourist Publicity Organizations. Renamed the International Union for Official Tourism Organizations (IUOTO) after the Second World War when it moved to Geneva. IUOTO was renamed the World Tourism Organization (WTO) in 1975 and moved its headquarters to Madrid the following year.
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Turner, B. (2000). The World Tourism Organization (WTO). In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271296_70
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