Editing UN Tourism (section)

== Members ==
[[File:UNWTO Tourism Regions.svg|thumb|334px|UNWTO Tourism Regions]]UN Tourism has 160 Member States,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who we are &#124; World Tourism Organization UNWTO |url=http://www2.unwto.org/content/who-we-are-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unwto.org/states/index.php|title=Member States|access-date=20 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Spanish Visa Experts |url=https://myspainvisa.com/ |access-date=5 October 2023}}</ref> six associate members (Aruba, Flanders, Hong Kong, Macao, Madeira and Puerto Rico),<ref>territories or groups of territories not responsible for their external relations but whose membership is approved by the state assuming responsibility for their external relations.</ref> and two observers ([[Holy See]] (1979), Palestine (1999)). 

Nonmembers are: [[Australia]], [[Belgium]], [[Belize]], [[Canada]], [[Denmark]], [[Dominica]], [[Estonia]], [[Finland]], [[Grenada]], [[Guyana]], [[Iceland]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], [[Kiribati]], [[Latvia]], [[Liechtenstein]], [[Luxembourg]], the [[Marshall Islands]], [[Micronesia]], [[Nauru]], [[New Zealand]], [[Norway]], [[Russia]], [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]], [[Saint Lucia]], [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], [[Singapore]], [[Solomon Islands]], [[Somalia]], [[South Sudan]], [[Suriname]], [[Sweden]], [[Tonga]], [[Tuvalu]], the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[United States]].

Seventeen state members have withdrawn from the organization for different periods in the past including Australia (citing poor value for money), [[Bahamas]] (later rejoined), [[Bahrain]] (rejoined in 2001), Belgium, Canada (Canada withdrew from the World Tourism Organization when it appointed [[Robert Mugabe]] as a leader in 2013), [[Costa Rica]] (rejoined in 1995), [[El Salvador]] (rejoined in 1993), Grenada, [[Honduras]] (rejoined in 2001), [[Kuwait]] (rejoined in 2003), Latvia, [[Malaysia]] (rejoined in 1991), [[Myanmar]] (rejoined in 2012), [[Panama]] (rejoined in 1996), [[Philippines]] (rejoined in 1991), [[Qatar]] (rejoined in 2002), [[Thailand]] (rejoined in 1996), United Kingdom and [[Puerto Rico]] (as an associate member).{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} The [[Netherlands Antilles]] was an associate member before [[Dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles|its dissolution]].

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) rejoined the organization in May 2013, 26 years after having left UN Tourism.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://media.unwto.org/press-release/2013-05-08/united-arab-emirates-joins-world-tourism-organization|title=The United Arab Emirates joins the World Tourism Organization |website= World Tourism Organization UNWTO |date=2013-05-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315203348/http://media.unwto.org/press-release/2013-05-08/united-arab-emirates-joins-world-tourism-organization  |archive-date= Mar 15, 2018 }}</ref>

Additionally, UN Tourism has over 500 affiliate members, including non-governmental entities with specialised interests in tourism, and commercial and non-commercial bodies and associations with activities related to the aims of UN Tourism or falling within its competence.

On 2 April 2022, Russia announced it would leave UN Tourism, and the organization subsequently voted the same day to suspend Russia in response to the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine |Russian invasion of Ukraine]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=Apr 27, 2022 |title=UN tourism body chief says Russia quitting the organization |url=https://leaderpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/un-tourism-body-chief-says-russia-quitting-the-organization |first1=Corina |last1=Pons |first2=Andrei |last2=Khalip |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240404020431/https://leaderpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/un-tourism-body-chief-says-russia-quitting-the-organization |archive-date=4 Apr 2024 |website=Regina Leader Post |agency=Reuters}}</ref>