World Tourism Network and International Institute For Peace Through Tourism Resolution for the Tourism Resilience Day
The World Tourism Network (WTN), in cooperation with the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT), congratulates and supports the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC) in launching World Tourism Resilience Day.
WTN applauds the GTRCMC and the proposed Declaration of the Tourism Resilience Day to be announced on February 17 in Dubai at the World Expo.
The ongoing pandemic has shown the resilience of this large sector of the world economy. Tourism is also a guardian of World Peace.
With the current challenges to World Peace, the World Tourism Network and the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism are united in realizing the synergy between tourism and peace.
Louis D’Amore, founder and president, and the IIPT Board wholeheartedly endorse this resolution and action..
Therefore, WTN and IIPT are inviting visionaries and leaders launching Tourism Resilience Day this week to appeal for World Peace and support this initiative started by IIPT and WTN.
Both the International Institute of Tourism and the World Tourism Network is inviting the organizers of the upcoming Tourism Resilience Day at the World Expo in Dubai to include the call by IIPT and WTN into its Declaration of the Resilience Day.
World Tourism Network President Peter Tarlow, who is also the Police Chaplin in College Station, Texas stated that the tourism industry seeks peace as one of its key platforms. Quoting the Book of Isaiah: “Peace, peace to the distant and the close”(57:19)
Tarlow noted that peace is a key element of tourism resilience and without the seeking of peace and human harmony tourism simply fails to exist. Tarlow noted that tourism is an instrument of bringing people together and creating human unity. The WTN is pleased to join with other organizations in working to make the human harmony and tourism vision a reality.
The IIPT Board under the leadership of President and Founder Louis D’Amore together with Juergen Steinmetz, founder, and Chairman of the World Tourism Network are recognizing the contribution of the Hon. Minister Edmund Bartlett Co-Chair, Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre, Minister of Tourism, Jamaica, and Professor Lloyd Waller Executive Director, GTRCMC.
World Tourism Network and IIPT are applauding the leadership behind the Global Tourism Resilience Day initiative guided by:
- The Most Honorable Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica;
- His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya
- Hon. Najib Balala, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, Kenya, and Chairman, Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC) – East Africa;
- Dr. Taleb Rifai, Co-chair, Global Resilience Centre, and Crisis Management Centre, Chairman ITIC Ltd., Co-chair, Global Travel and Tourism Resilience Council, and Former Secretary-General UNWTO
- Senator The Hon. Lisa Cummins, Minister of Tourism and International Transport of Barbados and Chair Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO)
- H.E. Nayef Al-Fayez, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Jordan
- Hon. Philda Nani Kereng, Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation & Tourism of Botswana
- Adam Stewart , Executive Chairman, Sandals Resorts International
- Antonio Teijeiro, COO, Bahia Principe
- Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman and CEO DMCC
- Nicolas Mayer, Global Tourism Leader, PWC
- Raki Phillips, CEO, Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKDA)
- Therese Rice, Partner, Consulum
- Nikolina Angelkova, Deputy Chair, Parliamentary Tourism Commission, National Assembly of Bulgaria, Former Minister of Tourism of Bulgaria (2014 -2020) and Responsible Person for GTRCMC in the Balkans •
- Senator The Hon. Kamina Johnson-Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica
- Yolanda Perdomo, Global Tourism Strategist, ICF
- Liz Ortiguera, CEO Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)
- Rika Jean-Francois, Commissioner ITB Corporate Social Responsibility
- Dr. Catheryn Khoo, Senior Researcher & Lecturer, Griffith Institute for Tourism Brisbane, Australia & Expert on Gender and Tourism in Asia and the Pacific, UNWTO
- Dr. Talal Abu Ghazaleh, Founder & Chairman Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organisation
- Liz Ortiguera, CEO Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)
- Nikolina Angelkova, Deputy Chair, Parliamentary Tourism Commission, National Assembly of Bulgaria, Former Minister of Tourism of Bulgaria (2014-2020) and Responsible Person for GTRCMC in the Balkans
- Aradhana Khowala, CEO Aptamind Partners. Chair of the Global Advisory Board of The Red Sea Development Company
- Dr. Esther Kagure Munyiri, Executive Director, Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre- East Africa
- Professor Salam Al-Mahadin, Vice President, Academic Affairs, Middle East University, Jordan
- Graham Cooke, Founder of the World Group
- Gerald Lawless, Ambassador WTTC and Director ITIC Ltd
- Ibrahim Ayoub, Group CEO, ITIC Ltd and Invest Tourism Ltd
- Daniela Wagner, Director, Group Development, Jacobs Media Group/ The Global Travel and Tourism Resilience Council
- Laurie Myers, Global Strategist, The Global Travel and Tourism Resilience Council
