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BRICS Tourism Ministers adopted the BRICS Tourism Ministers' Communique 2026, known as the Jaipur Declaration, by consensus at Jaipur, Rajasthan, on 21 August 2026.
The meeting was held under India's 2026 BRICS Chairship and chaired by Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union Minister for Culture and Tourism; representatives of nine BRICS member states took part.
The declaration sets out four priority areas - AI and Tourism; Sustainability and Responsible Tourism; Tourism Skilling and Capacity Building; and Tourism Exchanges and Seamless Travel Facilitation.
On artificial intelligence the communique backs safe, responsible and human-centred use for destination management, travel facilitation, visitor services and multilingual communication.
It followed preparatory talks of the BRICS Tourism Working Group at Jaipur on 19 and 20 August 2026; India's 2026 chairship theme is 'Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability'.
Intergovernmental grouping of major emerging economies. It began as BRIC with the first leaders' summit at Yekaterinburg in 2009; South Africa joined in 2010, making it BRICS. It has since expanded to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia. It has no permanent secretariat, and the chairship rotates annually.
The BRICS multilateral development bank, agreed at the 6th BRICS Summit at Fortaleza in 2014, which finances infrastructure and sustainable development projects in member and partner countries.
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The BRICS Tourism Ministers' Communique 2026, adopted by consensus at Jaipur on 21 August 2026 under India's chairship.
The officials-level body whose preparatory meetings on 19-20 August 2026 produced the draft communique.
The principle that AI systems should be designed to support and remain accountable to people, used in the declaration in the context of visitor services and destination management.
A policy approach to tourism that weighs environmental, social and economic sustainability alongside visitor numbers.