The accolade recognises villages that are leading the way in nurturing rural areas and preserving landscapes, cultural diversity, local values, and culinary traditions.
The United Nations World Tourism Organisation’s (UNWTO) Best Tourism Villages is a global initiative to highlight outstanding villages with tourism projects that help ‘preserve cultures and traditions, safeguard biodiversity and empower local communities’.
In this third edition, 54 villages from all regions were selected from almost 260 applications. The villages were named during the UNWTO General Assembly, taking place this week in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.