UNWTO/WTM Ministers' Summit to Feature TUI Group’s CEO
UNWTO/WTM Ministers' Summit to Feature TUI Group’s CEO
TUI Group Chief Executive Peter Long will head up the lineup of private sector speakers at the UNWTO & WTM Ministers’ Summit. Long, who runs the largest travel company in Europe, will share the stage with Cox & Kings CEO Peter Kerkar and World Travel and Tourism Council President and CEO David Scowsill in the private sector delegation at the summit.
The fifth and largest UNWTO & World Travel Market Ministers’ Summit, sponsored by National Geographic, will be held Nov. 8 at ExCeL London to examine the questions of “How Tourism Can Prosper in Times of Uncertainty.” Other private sector speakers at the summit include Eithad Airways Vice President of International Affairs Vijay Poonoosamy and Pacific Asia Travel Association Chairman Hiran Cooray.
It is the second time in three years that Long has taken part in the Ministers’ Summit having been on the private sector panel in 2009. A number of national tourism ministers will be in attendance, including Edmund Bartlett, minister of tourism, Jamaica; Trond Giske, minister of trade and industry, Norway; Fatou Mas Jobe-Njie, minister of tourism and culture, Gambia; Marthinus van Schalkwyk, minister of tourism, South Africa; and Dato' Sri Dr. Ng Yen Yen, minister of tourism, Malaysia. The summit with be moderated by National Geographic Traveler Magazine Editor-in-Chief Keith Bellows.
