The World Monuments Watch was created in 1995. The program solicits nominations from the Ministries of Culture around the world, from all US embassies, from international, national and local preservation groups, and from American Express offices worldwide. The nomination process is also open to individual citizens as a means of encouraging private activism. An independent panel of international experts in architecture, travel, archaeology, conservation, and related fields selects sites for inclusion in the biennial World Monuments Watch Lists of 100 Most Endangered Sites. We believe that tourism can have a profound impact on creating a climate for peace by generating economic growth and stable employment.
Tourism also educates travelers about other cultures, thereby fostering understanding.
While world leaders often meet to discuss opportunities for peace, it's rare that they would view a single industry as playing such a powerful role in sustaining Global Summit of Peace through Tourism. There's a new and vital interest in their surroundings. Central African Republic's Pristine Parklands by Muguette Goufrani Everything you may have read about this equatorial area for years in National Geographic , or in countless story books about Africa, is right here. Pygmies guide you through virgin forests that are the domain of forest elephants and rare lowland gorillas. We visited the Dzanga-Sangha Reserve which has some of the highest densities of lowland gorillas and elephant of anywhere in Africa.