UN's tourism boss lays into Trump's Mexican wall plans

A protest against US President Donald Trump’s intention to build a new wall on the Mexican border. Photo: Getty

Mark Evans

US President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall on the US-Mexico border and his administration's recent bans on travel from some Muslim-majority countries have suffered their biggest broadside from a heavy-hitter on the world stage.

Addressing Tianguis Turistico - Mexico's massive tourist trade fair, which attracts 7,000 representatives from almost 90 countries - the Secretary General of the UN World Tourism Organisation delivered a hard-hitting speech not even couched in softly-softly diplomatic language.