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Cuthbert Ncube, South Africa

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Annette Cardenas, Panama

The 2024 SKAL International President Annette Cardenas brings a wealth of experience and a rich professional background to her role. Her theme for 2024, “Building Bridges in the New Era of Skål,” reflects her commitment to strengthening connections and promoting solidarity among Skål members globally. Driven individual with a focus on goals and meeting objectives. […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Prof. Geoffrey Lipman, Brussels, Belgium

Professor Geoffrey Lipman is Creative Disruption Architect and Director of greenearth.travel, a global think tank network promoting green growth & travelism (travel & tourism) and specializing in strategy, innovation & funding. Prof. Lipman is an Adjunct Professor of Victoria University Australia; Visiting Professor of Hasselt University BE; Visiting Professor of Oxford Brookes University UK; Senior Tourism Research […]

Max Haberstroh, Germany

Tourism Hero Max Haberstroh lives in Germany. He has been involved in Travel and Tourism for over 30 years on long and short-term assignments, mostly for government and non-government organizations (GTZ, CIM, OTCA/ACTO, Conservation International, IFES), in Asia (Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East), Africa/Indian Ocean, the Balkans, Caucasus and Russia, and in South America. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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