Pope Francis on Tuesday appealed for a sustainable, non-discriminatory tourist industry in a tweet to his 30 million followers.
"Let us promote a sustainable tourism, which stimulates development and encounter with local peoples and avoids every sort of discrimination," he wrote on his nine-language @pontifex account.
The papal tweet coincides with the United Nations annual World Tourism Day, hosted this year by the Thai capital Bangkok under the theme 'Tourism for All - Promoting Universal Accessibility'.
