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Category - People

Current Heroes Awards: 

People

Robin Richman, Steppin Out, Chicago, IL, USA

5 years ago
People

Abigail Olagbaye, Nigeria

5 years ago
People

Gorden “Butch” Steward, Sandals Resorts, Jamaica

5 years ago
People

Deepak RajJoshi, Kathmandu, Nepal

5 years ago
People

Rudolf F. Herrmann, Penang, Malaysia

5 years ago
People

Agnes Mucuha, Nairobi, Kenya

5 years ago
People

Peter Byrne, Tanzania

5 years ago
People

Dale Evans, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

5 years ago
People

Prof. Geoffrey Lipman, Brussels, Belgium

5 years ago
People

Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica

5 years ago
People

Dr. Taleb Rifai, Jordan

5 years ago
People

Louis D’Amore, New York, USA

5 years ago
People

Tom Jenkins, London, UK

5 years ago
People

Cuthbert Ncube, South Africa

5 years ago
People

Eng Dr. Walter Mzembi, Zimbabwe

5 years ago
People

Vijay Poonoosamy, Singapore

5 years ago
People

Aleksandra Gardasevic Slavuljica, MBA, Podgorcia, Montenegro

5 years ago
People

Maricar Donato, Washington DC USA

5 years ago
People

Diana McIntyre-Pike, Jamaica

5 years ago
People

Alain St. Ange, Seychelles

5 years ago
People

Ambassador Dho Young-shim, Republic of Korea

5 years ago
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Countries

Albania Australia Azerbaijan Bahamas Barbados Belgium France Germany Guam India Israel Jamaica Jordan Kenya Lesotho Malaysia Mexico Montenegro Namibia Nepal Nigeria Panama Philippines Rep of Korea Senegal Serbia Seychelles SIngapore South Africa Spain St. Lucia Tanzania Thailand UK Ukraine USA Vietnam Zimbabwe

Hero

Peter Byrne, Tanzania

anzania and Zanzibar have reopened to a new kind of tourism. Peter Byrne, CEO of Mafia Island in Tanzania, developed a 20-point approach and introduced it at the rebuilding.travel platform: “Let’s build a persona around the idea of ‘new tourism’ (slow, immersive, kind, local, sustainable, climate-friendly) with hospitality back, front, and center – as in ‘hospitable’ not impersonal.” The […]

Michael Nahon, Paris, France

Michel Nahon is the Associate Director of Voyage Solidaire par Velvet Globe. Voyage Solidaire is an association created in 2010 as a group or laboratory of ideas between professionals of International Tourism, intended to develop reflections on new possible connections between new forms of travel and philanthropy Since January 2019, a new project was launched […]

I, H. M. Hakim Ali, BangladeshHakim

I, H. M. Hakim Ali was nominated by Sadia Islam for the Amazing Travel Award by the World Tourism Network. The World Tourism Network Hero Award and the Amazing Travel Award celebrate exceptional individuals, organizations, destinations, or associations that have demonstrated exemplary leadership, innovation, and dedication to advancing the global tourism industry. I, H. M. Hakim […]

Fedor Shandor, Zakarpattia, Ukraine

Mr. Shandor was nominated by WTN Tourism Hero Ivan Liptuga, a founding member of the WTN scream for Ukraine campaign ( www.scream.travel ) Fedor Shandor is a member of the National Tourism Organization of Ukraine (NTO), a Professor of Uzhhorod National University. Fedor Sandor gives a lecture on tourism to his students during the breaks […]

Czafiyhra Zaycev, “Irish” , Manila, PhilippinesCzafiyhra

Irish is the new face of Medical Tourism in the Philippines, according to World Tourism Network President Juergen Steinmetz. Irish was the nurse who went out of her way to buy an I-phone charger for Steinmetz while at Makati Medical Center in Manila. Judging from her social media posts this inspiring message by Mufti Menk […]

Karolin Troubetzkoy, St. LuciaKarolin Troubetzkoy

Karolin Troubetzkoy is the Executive Director, Marketing and Operations of Anse Chastanet and Jade Mountain Resorts in Soufriere, Saint Lucia, a position she held since 1986. From March 2010 to January 2016 and again from 2018-June 2021, Mrs Troubetzkoy served as President of the Saint Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association (SLHTA).  In 2013, Mrs Troubetzkoy […]

Vijay Poonoosamy, Singapore

Vijay Poonoosamy is the Singapore-based Director International and Public Affairs of QI Group, an Honorary Member of the Hermes Air Transport Organisation, a Non-Executive Member of the Board of Veling Group, a member of the International Board of Experts of Rebuilding Travel, of the Advisory Board of the World Tourism Forum Lucerne, of The Red […]

Jens Thraenhart, Thailand

Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office I have known and worked on various projects with Jens on and off for over 10 years. He has an extraordinary capacity to connect with people from across sectors and roles and make ‘inclusiveness’ into something which is practical and tangible. He is just as comfortable and sincere working with government […]

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