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Sister Juliet Lithemba, Lesotho

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Ivan Liptuga, Ukraine

Ivan Liptuga is from the beautiful Ukrainian Black Sea resort town of Odessa in southern Ukraine. It’s known for its beaches and 19th-century architecture, including the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater. The monumental Potemkin Stairs, immortalized in “The Battleship Potemkin,” lead down to the waterfront with its Vorontsov Lighthouse. Running parallel to the water, the […]

Burkhard Herbote, Germany

Burkhard Herbote, Editor World Tourism Directory, Founding Member International Chamber of Travel & Tourism, Advisor International Institute for Peace through Tourism, board member of the World Tourism Network, an expert in travel and tourism. Burkhard is behind dozens of initiatives that have formed world travel, and tourism is functioning today. He is a living Wikipedia […]

Hon. Secretary Najib Balala, Kenya

Secretary of Tourism, Kenya Tourism is one of the world’s leading industries and a major economic development tool, and as such, security (crime and terrorism) has a major impact on the tourism, cruise, and event-oriented economies. Additionally, much of the entire world has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects on tourism have […]

Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica

The Hon. Edmund Bartlett today was welcomed to the International Tourism Hall of Heroes recognizing his wide-ranging expertise and accomplishments in the political arena. Honorable Edmund Bartlett has given over thirty-five years of service to Jamaica, working both in the Senate and in the House of Representatives. Minister Bartlett’s reach and activities go way beyond […]

Gideon Thaler, TAL AVIATION, Israel

Gideon Thaler started his career working in sales for TWA in Tel Aviv on 1st March 1965. He moved on to become the Manager of CP Air, later becoming the Manager of Canadian Airlines International in Israel. At the same time, he was also the GSA for Qantas, the Australian airline. When Canadian Airlines sold […]

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. […]

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 […]

Jeffrey Durup, Seychelles

Jeffrey Durup was nominated as a Tourism Hero by Alain St. Ange, the former minister of Tourism for Seychelles. Mr.Durup launched his scuba diving excursions from the Island of La Digue in early 1973. Jeffrey Durup in his first boat ‘La Belle Caroline’ used to organize diving excursions for Poseidon Diving Groups for German visitors […]

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