Staff writer, with CNATaiwan has won the right to host the 2022 World Indigenous Tourism Summit, the Council of Indigenous Peoples said on Thursday after signing a memorandum of understanding with the organizers earlier in the day. Taiwan only began focusing on indigenous tourism in 2015, the council said. Benny Sherman, chairman of the leadership council of the World Indigenous Tourism Alliance, which organizes the summit, said that he gained a favorable impression of Taiwan after spending just one week in the nation. During his week-long stay, he was reassured that the decision to award Taiwan the right to host the summit was fully justified, Sherman said. It aims to bring together indigenous tourism operators and leaders of Aboriginal groups to discuss economic, environmental, social and political advances, and challenges in indigenous tourism, the alliance said.
