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materialize but it provided a valuable platform

for the debate.

The impact of this document soonled to the

UN organizing a major international

conference on the topic. Within 5 years of the

Bruntdland Report the Earth Summit (The

Conference on Environment and

Development) was held in Rio de Janeiro in

1992. The conference put down a landmark on

sustainability in the form of a broad action

strategy known as Agenda 21. Although

tourism neither appeared as an issue in

Brutdland Report, nor was included in

Agenda, the industry's planning and

development have been heavily influenced by

their recommendations. The result of the

conference was also a document containing

the fundamental principles on which the state

policy on socio-economic development should

be based taking into account environmental

conditions, the so called Rio Declaration

containing 27 principles defining the rights

and duties of nations in terms of sustainable

development.

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