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Annette Cardenas, Panama

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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 […]

Louis D’Amore, New York, USA

IIPT USA Louis D’Amore is Founder and President of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT). He has been instrumental in promoting the travel and tourism industry as the world’s first “Global Peace Industry” since the founding of IIPT in 1986. Dr. D’Amore has been a pioneer in promoting a social and environmental ethic […]

Mona Naffa, Amman , Jordan

We are Hotel and SPA owners and our livelihood is Tourism and sustaining the Sector. We provide the best value for the practical-minded traveler. Destination Jordan is a platform that bridges cultures from the East to the West and vice versa as the co-founder is a first-generation Arab American; raised and educated in California and […]

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 […]

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. […]

Gorden “Butch” Steward, Sandals Resorts, Jamaica

When you do good things, do them quietly. This is what Mr. Steward is representing as a founder of Sandals Resorts. He is the founder, owner, and chairman of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and its subsidiaries Appliance Traders and The Jamaica Observer. After completing his […]

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 […]

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 […]

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