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At the closing of the 20th century, benefiting from many years of research and scholarship on tourism , UNESCO's documents outlining the scope and nature of its 1996 Paris seminar on Cu/lure , Tourism , Development.Crucial Issues for the 2/"Centmydeclared that "tourism would not exist without culture ". According to its seminar program , culture is one of the principal motivations for the tourist movement , and any form of tourism provokes a cultural effect on both the host and guest Culture and Tourism. At the dawn of the new century , this sine qua non relationship between culture and tourism has stood the test of the time. The 2000 AIEST's congress program , celebrating the 50th anniversary of the association , appropriately returns to this research theme
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