ABSTRACT
The thinking behind the UN Declaration has been developed over the years. The 1980 Manila Declaration adopted by the WTO’s World Tourism Conference stated that the right to use of leisure and, in particular, the right to access to holidays and to freedom of travel and tourism were recognized as an aspect of the fulfilment of the human being by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. WTO’s Bali Declaration 1996 proclaimed that tourism, which was now enjoyed by all social strata, had become an important human need and ‘not just a leisure activity’.
