Theme
One Earth One Family: Travel and Tourism - Serving a Higher Purpose

Aim
To develop a 21st Century Agenda for Peace through Tourism that addresses the key global issues of our time.

Summit Goals
1. Provide a forum for leading government, industry, donor agency, and NGO decision makers, as well as leading educators, researchers, professionals and practitioners, to debate and reach consensus on the contribution of the world’s largest industry to the global issues of our time, including:

• A coordinated and sustained travel industry response to redevelopment and revitalization of  tsunami affected countries
• Poverty reduction
• Healing the wounds of conflict
• Preventing conflict through promoting cultural and international understanding, tolerance, and cooperation
• Ecological Enhancement and Preservation of Biodiversity

2. Facilitate strategic government, private sector, donor agency, and NGO alliances to achieve the these goals.

3. Demonstrate current progress towards these goals with ‘Success Stories’ and ‘Models of ‘Best Practice.’  

4. Through marketing and promotion of the Summit, support the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) in disseminating the message that: Tourists and travelers to tsunami affected countries are welcome and needed; that tourist enjoyment of a destination sends an authentic message of caring, solidarity and support for recovery; and that all tourists are assured of a warm welcome.

5. A further goal of the Summit is to forge an 'Asia - Africa Bridge of Tourism, Friendship and Collaboration.'

U.N. Millennium Development Goals
The 3^rd Global Summit on Peace through Tourism is in support of the U.N. Decade of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World, and the U.N. Millennium Goals.  

Participants
The 3rd Global Summit will bring together senior executives from all sectors of the travel and tourism industry, public and private; U.N. agencies, donor agencies, and NGOs; leading educators, policy analysts, researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, future leaders of the industry; and senior representatives from related sectors including: Culture, Sport, Environment, and Sustainable  Economic Development.

Keynote Speakers
Speakers included world leaders, travel industry statesmen, and leaders in related sectors such as environment, culture, sport, and sustainable economic development.

• Dr. Kim Hak Su, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP)
• Hon. K. Pande, President, Africa Travel Association (ATA), and Minister of Tourism, Environment, and Natural Resources, Republic of Zambia
• Mr. Alwin Zecha, Executive Chairman, Pacific Leisure Group and Executive Committee, Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Board
• Kathryn W. Sudeikis, CTC, President and CEO, American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA)
• Dr. Sasithara Pichaichannarong, Director-General, Office of Tourism Development, Kingdom of Thailand
• Dr. Monthip Sriratana Tabucanon, Regional Councilor for South and East Asia, IUCN The World Conservation Union
• Spencer King, President and CEO, International Executive Service Corps
• H.E. Akel Biltaji, Special Advisor to H.M. King Abdullah II, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
• H.E. Eng. Ziad Al-Bandak, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities. Palestine National Authority
• H.E. Mr. Veng Sereyvuth, Senior Minister, Royal Government of Cambodia
• Hon. Eduardo Jonatão S. Chingunji, Ministre de l'hôtellerie et du tourisme, Angola
• Rejoice Thizwilondi Mabudafhasi, Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South Africa
• Peter de Jong, President and CEO, Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA)
• Dr. Tom Selänniemi, Chairman, Tour Operators' Initiative for Sustainable Tourism

Final Program

Official Program PDF  provides the final program version given to Conference delegates.

Forums
Special Forums were held including an Educators Forum, Student/Youth Leadership Forum, Young Professionals Forum, and Forums on Community Tourism, Spirituality in Tourism, and Cultural Tourism.  Outcomes from the following Forums are available:

                        Educators Forum:  Paper Proceedings   

                   Community Tourism Forum: Summary

                   Indigenous Tourism Forum:  Recommendations
 

Scholarship Winning Essay
Click here to view essay

Report on Summit
Please click here to read a Conference Report written by Ian Kelly, Coordinator of the IIPT Educators Network and Professor at the University of South Australia.

Foundations
The 3rd Global Summit builds on the foundations of two previous Summits in Amman, 2000 and Geneva 2003; three African Conferences on Peace through Tourism: Mpumalanga Province, South Africa 2001; Dar es Salaam, 2003;  and Lusaka, 2005; three earlier Global Conferences: Vancouver, 1988; Montreal, 1994; Glasgow, 1999; and other conferences and symposia in Italy, Turkey, Greece, Australia, the Caribbean, Pakistan, Israel, United States and United Kingdom.

Official Hotel and Venue
Royal Cliff Beach Resort
353 Phra Tamnuk Road,
Pattaya, Cholburi 20150
Tel: (66 38) 250 421 • Fax: (66 38) 250 844
Email:  info@royalcliff.com, reservations@royalcliff.com
Websites: www.royalcliff.com • www.peachthailand.com  •  www.cliffspathailand.com

Post Summit Tours

• Bali, Indonesia

• Krabi, Thailand

• Phuket, Thailand

• Koh Yao Noi Island, Thailand

Official Airline
Thai Airways International
Thai Airways will provide best market fares to all delegates participating in the Summit.  Please contact your nearest Thai Airways Office for information and mention conference code: TG0510015. For further information about Thai Worldwide Offices, please visit www.thaiair.com.

Media Sponsors
Tourism & Wildlife  "A destination promotion magazine from India"
3rd Global Summit Supporting Organizations