Tourism organizations are industry associations and government agencies that help tourism businesses and workers maintain certain standards by upholding policies and conventions. Here are some of them:

• Unite Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)– a multilateral agency with over 150 member countries advancing “responsible, sustainable, and universally accessible tourism.” It engenders industry data, policies, and instruments to propel tourism as a catalyst for development (ww.unwto.org).
• International Air Transport Association (IATA)– a trade association that helps craft aviation policies, taxation, liberalization, infrastructure, unruly passengers, and the like. It supports its 240 member airlines or about 84% of the total air traffic in the world in many areas of aviation (iata.org).
• World Federation of Tourist Guide Associations (WFTGA)– a professional organization that seeks to uplift the training standards, ethics, quality, and reputation of the tour guiding profession and encourages exchange among the various tourist guide associations in the world. It has about 85 full members including the Multi-Lingual Accredited Tour Guides Association of the Philippines, Inc. (MULATGAP) (wftga.org).
• Department of Tourism (DOT) – the national tourism organization of the Philippines. It is a government agency mandated to promote tourism as a tool for development. It is attached agencies include the Tourism Promotions Board (TPB), Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA), the National Parks Development Committee, Intramuros Administration, Duty Free Philippines, Philippine Retirement Authority, and the Philippine Commission on Sports Scuba Diving (tourism.gov.ph/SitePages/dotlinks.aspx).

Theodore Roosevelt once said:

“I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action.”