$25.00 a 12 months is all it takes to develop into a part of the World Tourism Community as an observer. For $100.00 a 12 months, a member (particular person, company, or public sector) receives a distinguished and searchable on-line profile and full member entry.
A model new WTN membership construction launched right this moment
A brand new membership program was launched by WTN right this moment, to make it attainable for everybody and anyplace to develop into a part of this rising and fast-growing community with greater than 18,000 observers and members in 133 nations.
Recognized already because the advocate for small- and medium-sized journey and tourism companies, WTN is being acknowledged world wide as an rising participant with skilled and motivated leaders within the trade.
Premium membership choices embody an ever-increasing program for outreach, visibility, and promoting by way of companions and supporters, equivalent to eTurboNews.
The bottom membership is for SMEs, together with journey firms, DMCs, tour operators, transportation and hospitality firms, in addition to tour guides, consultants, and specialists in advertising and marketing and analysis.
Membership can be open to everybody who has an curiosity in SMEs, together with massive firms within the journey, aviation, cruise, and hospitality industries, and tour operators who respect and admire the function SMEs contribute to the sector.
Tourism boards, ministers, coverage makers, universities, and different associations, together with commerce exhibits and suppose tanks, are welcomed at WTN with open arms.
WTN lately established a rising community of chapters, equivalent to in Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, and different areas, taking considerations from the native to world stage.
WTN works with media and is concerned in advocacy work. There’s all the time a narrative to inform by WTN and its members.
eTurboNews, because the founding member, has been a key communication companion, and 72 different media companions have joined this community as effectively. All collectively, they’re the voice of the World Tourism Community.
The group depends on members equivalent to government board member Rudolf Herrmann, who single-handedly constructed probably the most influential and largest LinkedIn dialogue teams on sustainable journey tourism with greater than 17,500 WTN members and observers taking part.
The primary world summit concluded efficiently in September in Bali, Indonesia, beneath the management of Mudi Astuti, Chairwoman of the Indonesia Chapter of WTN.
The medical tourism curiosity group emerged out of this summit and is spreading globally. Additionally, tourism police coaching offered by Dr. Peter Tarlow was a sizzling subject in Bali together with local weather change. Professor Geoffrey Lipman, the primary CEO of WTTC, and a former Assistant Secretary Normal for UNWTO, was in command of this dialogue.
WTN has partnered with World Journey Market London, IMEX Frankfurt and IMEX America, and the Himalayan Journey Mart this 12 months and showcased its sturdy entry as a pacesetter within the sector.
How was WTN began?
In March 2022 in Berlin, Germany, the world was preparing for the biggest journey trade journey and tourism occasion – ITB – when Messe Berlin was pressured to cancel this occasion on February 28, 2023, because of the new COVID-19 outbreak spreading in Italy.
Sponsored by eTurboNews, PATA, the African Tourism Board, and the Nepal Tourism Board made up of 42 tourism leaders met on the Hyatt Regency Lodge in Berlin on March 3 to debate the specter of this new virus to the journey and tourism trade.
This dialogue was continued by Zoom and is called the Rebuilding.journey dialogue. With COVID progressing world wide, rebuilding.journey turned the primary and main dialogue on this situation and all through the pandemic.
After greater than 100 Zoom discussions, many involving high-level members of the tourism trade, these leaders set their give attention to rebuilding the journey and tourism trade and coping with the present challenges.
The WTN Founders Board contains:
- Juergen Steinmetz, Writer of eTurboNews
- Dr. Peter Tarlow, Security Safety Knowledgeable for Safer Tourism and Tourism & Extra
- Dr. Taleb Rifai, former UNWTO Secretary-Normal
- Hon Alain St. Ange, former Minister of Tourism of Seychelles
- Ivan Liptuga, Division of Tradition Worldwide Relations and European Integration, Odesa, Ukraine
- Rudolf Herrmann, Penang, Malaysia
- Prof. Geoffrey Lipman, SUNx Malta
- Vijay Poonoosamy, former VP of Etihad Airways, Mauritius
- Snezana Stetic, Balkan Community of Tourism Specialists, Serbia
- Aleksandra Gardasaevic-Slavuljica, Director of Tourism, Montenegro
- Deepak Ra Joshi, former CEO of Nepal Tourism Board, Nepal
- Hon. Walter Mzembi, former International Minister of Zimbabwe
- Hon. Najib Balala, former Secretary of Tourism of Kenya
- Cuthbert Ncube, President of the African Tourism Board
- Mudi Astuti, Strategi Komunikasi Utama, Indonesia
- Laura Mandala, Mandala Analysis, Virginia, USA
What would a worldwide tourism group be with out an award and HEROES?
Heroes Journey Award
COVID-19 created many heroes within the journey and tourism trade. World Tourism Community awarded its “Hero” award title to contributors within the sector, no matter place.
Heroes included Irish, a nurse at Makati Medical Heart in Manila who purchased a battery charger for a WTN member when he was out of contact and recovering in her hospital care.
The award has been bestowed upon the Hon. Alain St. Ange and the Jamaica Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, who’s behind the Resilience motion, and the driving power by the United Nations to ascertain a worldwide Tourism Resilience Day.
It has additionally included individuals like Burkhard Herbote from Germany, who is called the human model of a Wikipedia in tourism, and to Ivan Liptuga from Ukraine for his achievement related to the “Scream for Ukraine” advocacy motion began by the World Tourism Community.
WTN Hero Aleksandra Gardasevic Slavuljica helped information her nation of Montenegro by way of the disaster in shut cooperation with the World Tourism Community. She is now the Director of Tourism within the Authorities of Montenegro and is a proud vacation spot member.
There’s by no means a price and no advertising and marketing price for the Hero Award – solely grateful recognition is related to this reward. Discover extra info at www.heroes.journey
