Global Tourism Resilience Forum

ACCELERATING RECOVERY THROUGH RESILIENCE AND INVESTMENT

About this event

EVENT PROGRAMME

Global Tourism Resilience Forum

Theme: Accelerating Recovery Through Resilience and Investment

(HYBRID EVENT)

Date: Thursday 17 February 2022

Time: 14:00 to 19:00

Venue: Expo 2020 – DP World Pavilion, (Flow Gallery), DUBAI

13:00 – 13:45 Registration & Welcoming Drinks

13:45 – 14:00 Guests to be seated

Master of Ceremony: Professor Lloyd Waller, Executive Director, Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC)

14:00 – 14:40 Speeches by the following dignitaries

• Video Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC)

• Video messages: Organization of American States (OAS), Chairman of World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), President Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) & Professor Salam Al-Mahadin, Vice President, Academic Affairs, Middle East University, Jordan

• Welcome notes:

– Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Co-chair, Global Resilience Centre and Crisis Management Centre; Minister of Tourism Jamaica and Co-chair, Global Travel & Tourism Resilience Council

– Hon. Najib Balala, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife, Kenya

– 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

• Dr. Talal Abu Ghazaleh, Founder & Chairman Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organisation

• H.E Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya

• The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica

14:40 – 15:30 Ministerial Panel

TOPIC: Enabling resilience and sustainability to accelerate the recovery of the global tourism industry

Moderators: Gerald Lawless, Ambassador WTTC and Director ITIC Ltd and

Professor Lloyd Waller Executive Director, Global Tourism Resilience

and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC)

Video message by: Hon. Reyes Morato, Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Spain

Panellists:

• Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Global Resilience Centre and Crisis Management Centre; Minister of Tourism Jamaica and Co-chair, Global Travel & Tourism Resilience Council

• Hon. Najib Balala, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, Kenya

• Hon. Reyes Morata, Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Spain

. Senator The Hon. Lisa Cummins, Minister of Tourism and International Transport

of Barbados

• H.E. Nayef Al-Fayez, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Jordan

• Hon. Philda Nani Kereng, Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation & Tourism of Botswana

15:30 – 15:45 Break (beverages and amuse-bouche)

15:45 – 16:30 Tourism Business and Investment

Topic: Building resilience to attract investments in the global tourism industry:

The new challenges and issues

Moderator: Sameer Hashmi, Middle East Business Correspondent at BBC News

Panellists:

• Nicolas Mayer, Global Tourism Leader, PWC

• Raki Phillips, CEO, RAKDA

• Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Executive Chairman and CEO DMCC

• Therese Rice, Partner, Consulum

• Hamza Mustafa, CEO, P&O Marinas, DP WORLD

• Adam Stewart Chairman, Sandals Resorts

• Antonio Teijeiro, COO, Bahia Principe

Introduction by Daniela Wagner, Group Business Development Director, Jacobs Media Group / The Global Travel and Tourism Resilience Council

16:30 – 17:30 Women in Tourism

Topic: How women are contributing to transforming the global tourism industry and increasing its resilience?

Moderator: Aradhana Khowala, CEO Aptamind Partners. Chair of the Global Advisory Board of The Red Sea Development Company

Video message by:

• H.E. Sheikha Mai Bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, President of the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities

Introduction by:

• Dr. Esther Kagure Munyiri, Executive Director, Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre- Eastern Africa

• 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

Panellists:

• 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-Lattimore, Senior Researcher & Lecturer, Griffith Institute for Tourism Brisbane, Australia & Consultant Women in Tourism, UNWTO (Asia & Pacific)

17:30 – 17:35 Launch of the book:

TOURISM RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT:

Navigating Covid-19 and The Future

by Professor Lloyd Waller Executive Director, Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC) and Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism, Jamaica

17:35 – 17:40 Declaration of the Resilience Day

On stage:

• Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Global Resilience Centre and Crisis Management Centre; Minister of Tourism Jamaica and Co-chair, Global Travel & Tourism Resilience Council

• Hon. Najib Balala, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, Kenya and Chairman, Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC)-East Africa

• Senator The Hon. Kamina Johnson-Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Jamaica

• H.E. Nayef Al-Fayez, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Jordan

• 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

• 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

• Daniela Wagner, Director, Group Development, Jacobs Media Group/ The Global Travel and Tourism Resilience Council

• Gerald Lawless, Ambassador WTTC and Director ITIC Ltd

• Ibrahim Ayoub, Group CEO, ITIC Ltd and Invest Tourism Ltd

17:40 – 17:45 Closing:

• Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Global Resilience Centre and Crisis Management Centre; Minister of Tourism Jamaica and Co-chair, Global Travel & Tourism Resilience Council

• 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

• 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/ Resilience Council

 

17:45 – 19:00 Networking Cocktail

The Global Tourism Resilience Forum will be held on February 17, 2022 from14:00 pm to 19:00 pm at DP World Pavilion, Dubai Expo 2020, UAE. This forum will seek to foster a global collaboration among governments, thought leaders and industry experts in an effort to enhance tourism resilience through innovative solutions and culminate in the official launch of the “Global Tourism Resilience Day”.

Although the global tourism industry has been challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic for the past two years, it has shown its resilience but there is the need for stakeholders to reflect more deeply on the future of the industry and to take up emerging challenges in a harmonised way.

In this era of unprecedented disruptions, it is our collective responsibility as governments, leaders and individuals, to elaborate a common action plan for both the present and future generations to pave the way for a brighter new world order. an

Looking forward to your presence, please confirm with Ms. Anna-Kay Newell at anna.newell20@gmail.com or +1876 596 9821 or Izrina Ibrahim at izrina@itic.uk for any further information.