Aim of the
1st IIPT European Conference is to build on this
success, and to leverage current North – South, and South
– South initiatives towards sustainable
tourism development, poverty reduction, and societal betterment
through greater collaboration among key stakeholders.
This is the challenge to industry leaders
and participants in the 1st IIPT European Conference being
organized in
partnership
with the UN World Tourism Organization (UN WTO) and the United
Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and hosted by Stenden University.
The Conference is in support of the UN Decade of Peace and
Non-Violence for the Children of the World and the UN Millennium
Development
Goals.
The Conference Program will feature plenary
sessions with Keynote Speakers as well as a series of Concurrent
Sessions
and workshops
with case studies of “Success Stories” and “Models of Best
Practice.” The Conference will also feature an Educators
Forum and Student
Forum.
Plenary sessions will consist of a unique and innovative combination
of informative and inspiring Keynote addresses followed by
stimulating debate among the Keynote Speakers, and interaction
with conference delegates. Plenary panels will include industry
leaders from government, the private sector, NGO’s, and Educators
to gain insightful cross-sectoral perspectives and creative
proposals for future directions and actions.
Plenary Sessions and their respective Keynote Speakers are
as follows:
Plenary Session I
Global
Perspectives on Bridging the North – South Divide: Sustainable
Tourism Development and the UN Millennium Development Goals
Moderator: Dr. Noel Brown, President, Friends of the United
Nations and Chairman, IIPT International Advisory Board
Keynote Speakers
H.E. Maha Khatib, Minister
of Tourism and Antiquities, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan:
Amb. Anwarul
Chowdhury,
Former) UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative
for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing
Countries and Small Island Developing States; Dr. Christophe
Bouvier, European Director, United Nations Environment
Program (UNEP), (To be confirmed); Mr. Lelei Lelaulu,
President, Counterpart
International
Plenary Session II
Achieving Greater
Societal ROI from Tourism Investments through Enhanced
Collaboration of Key Stakeholders Hon.
Allen M. Chastanet, Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation,
St. Lucia; Dr. V. Morfopoulos, Managing Director,
Basic International
Development
Corporation
(BIDC); Mr. John
Hummel, Regional Senior Adviser/ Network Leader, Pro-Poor
Sustainable Tourism, SNV Asia; Ms. Monique de Greeve, UK
and European Director, TourismROI
Plenary Session III
Integrating
Social, Cultural, and Sports Dimensions in Bridging the
North – South Divide through Sustainable Tourism Development Mr. Yianis Evangelou, President, Hellenic Association of
Travel and Tourism Agencies (HATTA); Mr. Robert Zimmer, President,
Zimmer Group International; Ms. Lyndall De Marco, Executive
Director; International Tourism Partnership, Prince of Wales
International Business Leaders Forum; Mr. Taj Hamad, Secretary
General, World Association of NGO’s (WANGO).
Plenary Session IV
Catalyzing
More Effective Models of Collaboration to Leverage North
– South, and South – South initiatives for Sustainable
Tourism Development, Poverty Reduction, and Societal Betterment Hon.
Eduardo Jonatão S. Chingunji, Ministre de l'hôtellerie
et du tourisme, Republic of Angola ; Hon. Edmund Bartlett,
Minister of Tourism, Jamaica; Mr. Luigi Cabrini Director,
Sustainable Development, UN World Tourism Organization; Dr.
Tom Selänniemi, Chairman, Tour Operators' Initiative
for Sustainable Tourism.
Hon. Eduardo S. Chingunji |
Hon. Edmund Bartlett |
Luigi Cabrini |
Dr. Tom Selänniemi |
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Plenary Session V
Educational
Foundations for a Collaborative Approach in Bridging the
North-South Divide
Hon. Shasma S. Mwangunga, Minister of Natural Resources
and Tourism, United Republic of Tanzania; Hon.
Filippe Savadogo, Minister of Culture, Tourism and Communication,
Burkina Faso;
Ms. Johanna Fragano, President, European Hotel Managers Association
(EHMA); Dr. Dallen J. Timothy, Professor of Community Resources
and Development; Arizona State University, Editor of the
Journal of Heritage Tourism; Dr. Irena Ateljevic, Socio-Spatial
Analysis Landscape Centre Environment Science, Wageningen
University, the Netherlands
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Hon. Shasma Mwangunga |
Johanna Fragano |
Dr. Dallen Timothy |
Dr. Irena Ateljevic |
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MEDIA LUNCHEON
Role of the Media in Bridging the North – South Divide through
Sustainable Tourism Development
Bea Broda, President, Society of American
Travel Writers; Thomas Steinmetz, Publisher, eTurbo News;
Sandy Dhuyvetter, Travel Talk Media;
Bea Broda |
Thomas Steinmetz |
Sandy Dhuyvetter |
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Conference Aim
Build on, expand, and leverage current North – South, and South – South initiatives
towards sustainable tourism development, poverty reduction, and societal
betterment.
Conference Goals
1. Provide a Forum for governments, private enterprise, donor agencies, foundations
and NGO’s to debate and reach consensus on more effective models of achieving
North – South and South – South collaboration towards sustainable tourism
development, poverty reduction, and societal betterment.
2. Identify Models of Best Practice in North – South and South
– South collaboration in achieving Sustainable Tourism Development
3. Facilitate effective knowledge transfer on Models of Best
Practice and state of the art contribution of technology to
Sustainable Tourism Development, Community Empowerment, and
Destination Marketing.
4. Enhance the role of the Media, and
the role of Culture and Sport in nurturing North – South
and South-South dialogue,
relationships and collaboration. 5. Engage Educators and future leaders of the industry in
the debate, and in conducting innovative research that will
contribute to enhanced North – South and South – South collaboration
towards sustainable tourism development.
6. Identify potential synergies with other industries for
sustainable wealth creation, poverty reduction, and societal
betterment in the Group of 77 Countries, and particularly Least
Developed Countries (LDC’s), Land Locked Developing Countries
(LLDC’s), and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
The Conference will bring together Ministers
of Tourism and senior executives from both the public and private
sectors of tourism, European Union, U.N. Agencies, foundations,
donor agencies, and NGOs, as well as educators, policy analysts,
leading practitioners, entrepreneurs, future leaders of the
industry, and senior representatives of related sectors including
environment, culture, sport, and sustainable economic development.
The 1st IIPT European Conference builds on the foundations
of three Global Conferences: Vancouver, Canada 1988; Montreal,
Canada 1994; Glasgow, Scotland, 1999; three Global Summits
in Amman, Jordan 2000, Geneva, Switzerland 2003; and Pattaya,
Thailand 2005; four African Conferences: Mpumalanga Province,
South Africa 2001; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2003; Lusaka, Zambia
2005; and Kampala, Uganda 2007; and other conferences and symposia
in Italy, Turkey, Greece, Australia, the Caribbean, Pakistan,
Israel, United States and United Kingdom.
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Each member of the inter-disciplinary team must currently be
enrolled as a graduate or undergraduate student through October
2008. Essay must be the result of original scholarly research
of significant merit. 
The International Institute for Peace through
Tourism will sponsor a booth at TheTradeShow in Orlando
September 7-9. The recent partnership agreement between ASTA
and IIPT
was the catalyst for this participation, which will be
IIPT’s first time to exhibit at TheTradeShow.
Seven tours for 2009 have currently been designated as
“World Peace Tours”:
IIPT
is most pleased to announce its second World Peace
Tour to Bhutan in collaboration with and organized
by Sacred Himalaya Travel. The tour comes at an auspicious
time in Bhutan’s history. Bhutan is a Kingdom where
its peoples still wear centuries old robes, monks swirl
in sacred dances and Kings dare to risk change in governance
on the greater behalf of their people’s happiness. 
The
focus for this second IIPT World Peace as a Tour of
Kindness 2008 began when Sacred Himalaya Travel’s Wendy
Erd, met a primary school teacher last summer from
Berkeley, California. She said that the addition of
a young Tibetan student and his family to their school
brought lovely changes to her classroom. At the end
of the year the parents and young students said the
new student and his family taught them so much about
kindness and gentleness. Bhutan shares this same surround
of kindness which emanates from its people and arises
from their same gentle compassionate values.
valleys
and ancient spiritual sites, we’ll take easy day hikes
along a sparkling river and climb a gentle trail under
tall pines to visit young nuns in a small nunnery.