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SUMMARY:The Starlight Foundation:  the starry sky as a scientific, cultural
 , environmental and sustainable economy resource.
DESCRIPTION:The Starlight Foundation:  the starry sky as a scientific, cult
 ural, environmental and sustainable economy resource.\nDr. A. M. Varela\n\
 nStarlight principles and recommendations are brought together in the &ldq
 uo;Declaration in Defence of the Night Sky and the Right to Starlight&rdqu
 o; (“La Palma Declaration.” 2007), in which, in addition to th
 e IAC, representatives of UNESCO, UNWTO, IAU, UNEP-CMS, CE, SCBD, COE, MAB
  and the Ramsar Convention all participated and launched Starlight as an i
 nternational movement in defence of the sky by night and day and to treat 
 it as a source of knowledge and culture that should be shared with society
  as a whole, promoting the dissemination of astronomy and sustainable, hig
 h-quality tourism in those places where the night sky is cared.  The 
 Starlight Reserves, Tourist Destinations and other modalities are scenario
 s that incorporate the observation of the sky as part of the natural, scen
 ic, cultural and scientific heritage and encourage “Star Tourism&rdq
 uo;, promoting infrastructure, products, activities and training of specia
 lized guides in the field of sustainable tourism. The Starlight Foundation
  has been selected to lead the UNWTO Affiliate Member Working Group on Sci
 entific Tourism. Updated Starlight certifications and current projects wil
 l be summarized in this presentation.
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