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Gideon Thaler, TAL AVIATION, Israel

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Dov Kalmann, Israel

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Joseph Kafunda, Walvis Bay, Namibia

Joseph Kafunda is the Chairperson of the Emerging Tourism Enterprise Association and a member of the World Tourism Network. Mr. Joseph Kafunda has been instrumental during all 3 months, he held Zoom webinars to motivate his Association members to remain positive and strong during this pandemic. He started to help Small and Medium entrepreneurs with […]

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 […]

Dr. Taleb Rifai, Jordan

Dr. Taleb Rifai was born in 1949. He is a Jordanian economist who was the Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) based in Madrid, Spain, until December 31, 2017, having held the post since being unanimously elected in 2010 in Zambia/Zimbabwe at the UNWTO General Assembly. Dr. Taleb Rifai was elected as Secretary-General of the World […]

The Anonymous Tourism Hero

Tourism is composed of thousands of people who unselfishly create bonds between individuals, cultures and nations. These tourism stars are the industry’s unsung heroes who bring light to a world swamped in darkness. The World Tourism Network seeks to bring these tourism heroes to light. Tourism is more than a mere industry, it is a […]

Cuthbert Ncube, South Africa

Chairman of African Tourism Board: It is a new Dawn as we Usher in the Voice of Africa by Africa in Africa. It’s the birth of the African Tourism Board (ATB) whose mandate is to drive the vision and the aspirations of more than 1,323,568,478 people in Africa.” This was the words in April 2019 […]

Sister Juliet Lithemba, Lesotho

For Sister Juliet Lithemba, the past year has been “nothing short of grace and mercy from above”, as she explains it. The 77-year-old resident of Mt Royal Convent of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa, located in Lesotho’s Leribe district, didn’t know much about COVID-19 until her convent home and fellow sisters were infected by the deadly virus. […]

Dov Kalmann, Israel

During the first chapter of the Covid-19 pandemic when the global tourism industry was at a full standstill, Dov renamed his marketing & PR company to “Terranova Tourism Marketing & Consultancy”, true to his belief that tourism will and must change with a much more sustainable and meaningful set of values. His company functions as […]

Joseph Kafunda, Walvis Bay, Namibia

Joseph Kafunda is the Chairperson of the Emerging Tourism Enterprise Association and a member of the World Tourism Network. Mr. Joseph Kafunda has been instrumental during all 3 months, he held Zoom webinars to motivate his Association members to remain positive and strong during this pandemic. He started to help Small and Medium entrepreneurs with […]

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