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Bali Becomes Host of Global Tourism Forum Annual Meeting 2022

Indonesian Tourism Forum (ITF) collaborates with the World Tourism Forum Institute (WTFI) to organize Global Tourism Forum - Annual meeting (GTF-AM) 2022 in Movenpick Resort & Spa Jimbaran Bali, 17-18 November 2022. GTF-AM 2022's theme is "Time for Travel & Tourism: from Words to Actions."

The Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy Republic of Indonesia, Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, opened the forum with a speech. In his welcome, Sandiaga hopes the activities in GTF- AM 2022 can give a concrete solution to the challenges faced by the global tourism industry. According to Sandi, this forum is more important than ever because the world of tourism is entering a phase of recovery that has its own challenges.

"We hope to shape back the topic of traveling and tourism in this renowned forum as well as bringing back the sector better than before through strategic actions," Sandiaga explained. Sandi invites the public and private sectors to have more vital collaboration to push funding and build up ongoing infrastructure to train and build up the human resources for inclusive, resilient, and sustainable tourism.

In the same opportunity, the Chairman of ITF, Sapta Nirwandar, hopes this activity positively impacts world tourism development. One of the developments is a new tourism site. As the host country, Sapta hopes that Indonesia can really feel the impact. "This two-day forum in Bali is more than just 'talking' about strategy and recommendation in the tourism industry. We will really push to execute it because here we will create B2B (Business to Business) and B2G (Business to Government), as well as Investment Forum that will be attended by more than 20 investors that will help the industry become stronger," Sapta explained.

In the GMF-AM 2022, prominent speakers and international tourism key persons like the Ministry of Transportation Republic of Indonesia Budi Karya Sumadi, ASEAN Secretary-General Dato Paduka Lim Jock Hoi, as well as representatives of the European Parliament, Asia-Pacific Economy Organization (APEC), Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), The International Air Transport Association (IATA), ACCOR, ASCOTT, Booking.com, Traveloka.com, as well as many prominent private sectors.

Moreover, GTF-AM also tries to connect Foreign Direct Investment in Indonesia with the scheme Business to Government that focuses on the Exclusive Economic Zone projects and tourist sites like Lake Toba, Labuan Bajo, Borobudur, KEK Morotai, KEK Lido, KEK Likupang, KEK Tanjung Lesung, KEK Tanjung Kelayang, KEK Singhasari, KEK Mandalika, Sariater Bumi Mas, and PT Indonesia Ethnowellness Nusantara.

Foreign Investment that participates comes from Romania, UAE, Monaco, the UK, Spain, Australia, and Singapore. GTF-AM is a collaborative international platform that focuses on handling tourism industry challenges. GTF's purpose is to encourage development in the tourism industry and plan a strategy that will ensure the tourism industry's growth.

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"People want to travel": 4 sector leaders say that tourism will change and grow

The global travel and tourism industry's post-pandemic recovery is gaining pace as the world’s pent-up desire for travel rekindles. Image:  Unsplash/Anete Lūsiņa

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Shinya katanozaka, gilda perez-alvarado, stephen kaufer.

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• In 2020 alone, the travel and tourism industry lost $4.5 trillion in GDP and 62 million jobs - the road to recovery remains long.
• The World Economic Forum’s latest Travel & Tourism Development Index gives expert insights on how the sector will recover and grow.
• We asked four business leaders in the sector to reflect on the state of its recovery, lessons learned from the pandemic, and the conditions that are critical for the future success of travel and tourism businesses and destinations.

The global travel and tourism sector’s post-pandemic recovery is gaining pace as the world’s pent-up desire for travel rekindles. The difference in international tourist arrivals in January 2021 and a similar period in January 2022 was as much as the growth in all of 2021. However, with $4.5 trillion in GDP and 62 million jobs lost in 2020 alone, the road to recovery remains long.

A few factors will greatly determine how the sector performs. These include travel restrictions, vaccination rates and health security, changing market dynamics and consumer preferences, and the ability of businesses and destinations to adapt. At the same time, the sector will need to prepare for future shocks.

The TTDI benchmarks and measures “the set of factors and policies that enable the sustainable and resilient development of the T&T sector, which in turn contributes to the development of a country”. The TTDI is a direct evolution of the long-running Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI), with the change reflecting the index’s increased coverage of T&T development concepts, including sustainability and resilience impact on T&T growth and is designed to highlight the sector’s role in broader economic and social development as well as the need for T&T stakeholder collaboration to mitigate the impact of the pandemic, bolster the recovery and deal with future challenges and risks. Some of the most notable framework and methodology differences between the TTCI and TTDI include the additions of new pillars, including Non-Leisure Resources, Socioeconomic Resilience and Conditions, and T&T Demand Pressure and Impact. Please see the Technical notes and methodology. section to learn more about the index and the differences between the TTCI and TTDI.

The World Economic Forum's latest Travel & Tourism Development Index highlights many of these aspects, including the opportunity and need to rebuild the travel and tourism sector for the better by making it more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient. This will unleash its potential to drive future economic and social progress.

Within this context, we asked four business leaders in the sector to reflect on the state of its recovery, lessons learned from the pandemic, and the conditions that are critical for the future success of travel and tourism businesses and destinations.

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Are you a 'bleisure' traveller, what is a ‘vaccine passport’ and will you need one the next time you travel, a travel boom is looming. but is the industry ready, how to follow davos 2022, “the way we live and work has changed because of the pandemic and the way we travel has changed as well”.

Tony Capuano, CEO, Marriott International

Despite the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the future looks bright for travel and tourism. Across the globe, people are already getting back on the road. Demand for travel is incredibly resilient and as vaccination rates have risen and restrictions eased, travel has rebounded quickly, often led by leisure.

The way many of us live and work has changed because of the pandemic and the way we travel has changed as well. New categories of travel have emerged. The rise of “bleisure” travel is one example – combining elements of business and leisure travel into a single trip. Newly flexible work arrangements, including the opportunity for many knowledge workers to work remotely, have created opportunities for extended travel, not limited by a Monday to Friday “9 to 5” workweek in the office.

To capitalize on this renewed and growing demand for new travel experiences, industry must join governments and policymakers to ensure that the right conditions are in place to welcome travellers as they prepare to get back on the road again, particularly those who cross international borders. Thus far, much of the recovery has been led by domestic and leisure travel. The incremental recovery of business and international travel, however, will be significant for the broader industry and the millions who make their livelihoods through travel and tourism.

Looking ahead to future challenges to the sector, be they public health conditions, international crises, or climate impacts, global coordination will be the essential component in tackling difficult circumstances head-on. International agreement on common – or at least compatible – standards and decision-making frameworks around global travel is key. Leveraging existing organizations and processes to achieve consensus as challenges emerge will help reduce risk and improve collaboration while keeping borders open.

“The travel and tourism sector will not be able to survive unless it adapts to the virtual market and sustainability conscience travellers”

Shinya Katanozaka, Representative Director, Chairman, ANA Holdings Inc.

At a time when people’s movements are still being restricted by the pandemic, there is a strong, renewed sense that people want to travel and that they want to go places for business and leisure.

In that respect, the biggest change has been in the very concept of “travel.”

A prime example is the rapid expansion of the market for “virtual travel.” This trend has been accelerated not only by advances in digital technologies, but also by the protracted pandemic. The travel and tourism sector will not be able to survive unless it adapts to this new market.

However, this is not as simple as a shift from “real” to “virtual.” Virtual experiences will flow back into a rediscovery of the value of real experiences. And beyond that, to a hunger for real experiences with clearer and more diverse purposes. The hope is that this meeting of virtual and actual will bring balance and synergy the industry.

The pandemic has also seen the emergence of the “sustainability-conscious” traveller, which means that the aviation industry and others are now facing the challenge of adding decarbonization to their value proposition. This trend will force a re-examination of what travel itself should look like and how sustainable practices can be incorporated and communicated. Addressing this challenge will also require stronger collaboration across the entire industry. We believe that this will play an important role in the industry’s revitalization as it recovers from the pandemic.

How is the World Economic Forum promoting sustainable and inclusive mobility systems?

The World Economic Forum’s Platform for Shaping the Future of Mobility works across four industries: aerospace and drones; automotive and new mobility; aviation travel and tourism; and supply chain and transport. It aims to ensure that the future of mobility is safe, clean, and inclusive.

• Through the Clean Skies for Tomorrow Coalition , more than 100 companies are working together to power global aviation with 10% sustainable aviation fuel by 2030.
• In collaboration with UNICEF, the Forum developed a charter with leading shipping, airlines and logistics to support COVAX in delivering more than 1 billion COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable communities worldwide.
• The Road Freight Zero Project and P4G-Getting to Zero Coalition have led to outcomes demonstrating the rationale, costs and opportunities for accelerating the transition to zero emission freight.
• The Medicine from the Sky initiative is using drones to deliver vaccines and medicine to remote areas in India, completing over 300 successful trials.
• The Forum’s Target True Zero initiative is working to accelerate the deployment and scaling of zero emission aviation, leveraging electric and hydrogen flight technologies.
• In collaboration with the City of Los Angeles, Federal Aviation Administration, and NASA, the Forum developed the Principles of the Urban Sky to help adopt Urban Air Mobility in cities worldwide.
• The Forum led the development of the Space Sustainability Rating to incentivize and promote a more safe and sustainable approach to space mission management and debris mitigation in orbit.
• The Circular Cars Initiative is informing the automotive circularity policy agenda, following the endorsement from European Commission and Zero Emission Vehicle Transition Council countries, and is now invited to support China’s policy roadmap.
• The Moving India network is working with policymakers to advance electric vehicle manufacturing policies, ignite adoption of zero emission road freight vehicles, and finance the transition.
• The Urban Mobility Scorecards initiative – led by the Forum’s Global New Mobility Coalition – is bringing together mobility operators and cities to benchmark the transition to sustainable urban mobility systems.

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“The tourism industry must advocate for better protection of small businesses”

Gilda Perez-Alvarado, Global CEO, JLL Hotels & Hospitality

In the next few years, I think sustainability practices will become more prevalent as travellers become both more aware and interested in what countries, destinations and regions are doing in the sustainability space. Both core environmental pieces, such as water and air, and a general approach to sustainability are going to be important.

Additionally, I think conservation becomes more important in terms of how destinations and countries explain what they are doing, as the importance of climate change and natural resources are going to be critical and become top of mind for travellers.

The second part to this is we may see more interest in outdoor events going forward because it creates that sort of natural social distancing, if you will, or that natural safety piece. Doing outdoor activities such as outdoor dining, hiking and festivals may be a more appealing alternative to overcrowded events and spaces.

A lot of lessons were learned over the last few years, but one of the biggest ones was the importance of small business. As an industry, we must protect small business better. We need to have programmes outlined that successfully help small businesses get through challenging times.

Unfortunately, during the pandemic, many small businesses shut down and may never return. Small businesses are important to the travel and tourism sector because they bring uniqueness to destinations. People don’t travel to visit the same places they could visit at home; they prefer unique experiences that are only offered by specific businesses. If you were to remove all the small businesses from a destination, it would be a very different experience.

“Data shows that the majority of travellers want to explore destinations in a more immersive and experiential way”

Steve Kaufer, Co-Founder & CEO, Tripadvisor

We’re on the verge of a travel renaissance. The pandemic might have interrupted the global travel experience, but people are slowly coming out of the bubble. Businesses need to acknowledge the continued desire to feel safe when travelling. A Tripadvisor survey revealed that three-quarters (76%) of travellers will still make destination choices based on low COVID-19 infection rates.

As such, efforts to showcase how businesses care for travellers - be it by deep cleaning their properties or making items like hand sanitizer readily available - need to be ingrained within tourism operations moving forward.

But travel will also evolve in other ways, and as an industry, we need to be prepared to think digitally, and reimagine our use of physical space.

Hotels will become dynamic meeting places for teams to bond in our new hybrid work style. Lodgings near major corporate headquarters will benefit from an influx of bookings from employees convening for longer periods. They will also make way for the “bleisure” traveller who mixes business trips with leisure. Hotels in unique locales will become feasible workspaces. Employers should prepare for their workers to tag on a few extra days to get some rest and relaxation after on-location company gatherings.

Beyond the pandemic, travellers will also want to explore the world differently, see new places and do new things. Our data reveals that the majority want to explore destinations in a more immersive and experiential way, and to feel more connected to the history and culture. While seeing the top of the Empire State building has been a typical excursion for tourists in New York city, visitors will become more drawn to intimate activities like taking a cooking class in Brooklyn with a family of pizza makers who go back generations. This will undoubtedly be a significant area of growth in the travel and tourism industry.

Governments would be smart to plan as well, and to consider an international playbook that helps prepare us for the next public health crisis, inclusive of universal vaccine passports and policies that get us through borders faster.

Understanding these key trends - the ongoing need to feel safe and the growing desire to travel differently - and planning for the next crisis will be essential for governments, destinations, and tourism businesses to succeed in the efforts to keep the world travelling.

World Tourism Day Forum

Every year on World Tourism Day, we host a forum focused on pressing issues facing the tourism industry. These forums are heavily solutions-oriented, inviting practitioners to discuss the successes and obstacles they have faced in implementing tourism solutions.

Twenty Years of Tourism: Looking Back and Beyond

Founded in 2003, in the wake of the UN International Year of Ecotourism (2002), the Center for Responsible Travel (CREST) has worked with communities around the world to implement more responsible tourism policies and practices. The tourism industry and the landscape within which it operates have changed drastically over the past two decades. In honor of our 20th anniversary, we will look at how the tourism industry and landscape have changed, discuss best practices and lessons learned, and apply what we know to our work moving forward.

In discussing how the tourism industry and landscape have changed over the past two decades and where it will be going, we will look at industry trends, policy, research, stakeholder engagement, awareness-building, regulation, and cooperation.

The goal of this year’s World Tourism Day Forum is to understand how the tourism industry and landscape have evolved over the past two decades and how to best utilize lessons learned to create lasting change over the next two.

Martha Honey Legacy in Responsible Travel Award

The Martha Honey Legacy in Responsible Travel Award was first created to honor Dr. Martha Honey on the occasion of her retirement in recognition of her incredible leadership and accomplishments in responsible travel. At that time, the Board and staff of CREST decided to make this an annual award from the CREST Board of Directors to someone in the global tourism industry making a significant difference in pushing the envelope in responsible travel.

This year’s award went to Bruce Poon Tip, CEO and Founder of GAdventures.

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Destination stewardship: transforming travel for people and our planet (2022).

It isn’t uncommon for tourism policies and plans to be made without community input, but tourism does not exist in a vacuum. Communities feel the consequences of being excluded: from overtourism and climate and biodiversity threats, to cultural heritage loss and widening social inequities. In order to build a more sustainable and responsible future for tourism – for destination communities, businesses, and tourists alike – we need a more holistic approach, one that puts communities at the center of tourism planning and decision-making. Without doing so we risk losing what makes so many destinations unique and worth visiting.

Our goal for this event was to have a research-based discussion with practical examples of how destination stewardship is being implemented around the world. Participants walked away with a better understanding of destination stewardship as a tourism model and the value of using community-centered destination marketing.

Martha Honey Legacy in Responsible Travel Award recipient: Jonathan Tourtellot. He was selected amongst a pool of esteemed candidates but what set him apart was his dogged commitment to destination stewardship throughout his multi-decade career.

Tourism in a Climate Crisis (2021)

In 2021, CREST is partnered with Tourism Declares a Climate Emergency to host our fifth annual World Tourism Day Forum. The virtual event focused on helping key sectors bridge the disconnect between the goals destinations, accommodations, and tour operators are told they must meet when it comes to mitigating the climate crisis, and the action steps needed to take.

Lessons from COVID-19 for Tourism in a Changing Climate (2020)

CREST’s 2020 meta-analysis,  The Case for Responsible Travel: Trends & Statistics , shares key studies on COVID-19 and climate change and the lessons that may be applied from the former to meet the challenges of the latter.

This 2020 World Tourism Day Webinar shared the report’s key findings and brought together experts to discuss consumer, business, and destination trends in the context of recovery.

Distinguished speakers explored the unprecedented opportunity to mitigate two existential threats, climate change and COVID-19, with one coordinated approach, truly making the world a safer, more equitable, and more resilient place for all.

Impact Tourism: Giving Time, Talent, and Treasure (2019)

Impact tourism is not about collecting loose change for charities. Rather, it is about integrating business and visitor support for local communities into the core definition of responsible travel. The 2019 World Tourism Day Forum focused on successful travel giving programs for a wide range of businesses and destination types.

Recognizing that doing good does not always mean doing right, the forum also examined the downsides of inappropriately implemented travel giving and voluntourism programs.

The forum also traced the evolution of what was originally referred to as travelers’ philanthropy into Impact Tourism , which today represents a broad array of travel giving programs.

This forum was presented by CREST and Organization of American States.

Overtourism: Seeking Solutions (2018)

We define overtourism as tourism that has moved beyond the limits of acceptable change in a destination due to quantity of visitors, resulting in degradation of the environment and infrastructure, diminished travel experience, wear and tear on built heritage, and/or negative impacts on residents.

Around the world, popular tourist destinations have reached a tipping point. A growing middle class, improved connectivity, and the desire of people to see the world means that popular destinations are becoming over-saturated. The phenomenon called ‘overtourism’ has led to civic protests and residents demanding that ‘tourists go home.’

This 2018 World Tourism Day Forum was designed to reflect on the root causes of overtourism, but more importantly, to share viable solutions from thought leaders working on the front lines. This included public sector destination managers and private sector tourism providers. Panel discussions focused on the various types of destinations confronting overtourism: historic cities, national parks, and protected areas, World Heritage Sites, coastal and beach communities, and national and regional destinations.

This forum was presented by CREST and the George Washington Institute for International Tourism Studies.

UN International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development (2017)

The CREST/UN Environment forum was designed to showcase the importance of the UN’s declaration of 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. This invitation-only, day-long event took place on World Tourism Day, September 27, 2017, at the UN Foundation in Washington, DC.

The event featured panels covering the five key areas identified by the UNWTO for this international year. Each one-hour panel was moderated by a well-known journalist and included two presenters giving exemplary and inspiring case studies. In their 8-10 minute talks, presenters showed short videos of their work and reflected on both their successes and challenges. Case studies were drawn from North America, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The journalist/moderator for each panel ensured ample time for audience discussion after each set of presentations.

Leaders are meeting in Bali!

Global Tourism Forum Annual Meeting 2022 Indonesia is Asia pacific’s largest tourism event bringing together the key players of tourism and its parallel industries, politicians, digital influencers, investors and experts to reshape the path through industry’s future. GTF’s Annual Meeting 2022 will take place during two days in Bali on November 17-18, with the c-level representors of world’s top travel, tourism, aviation companies.

Unique networking opportunity with G20

GTF Annual Meeting 2022 will be held as a parallel program to G20 2022 Indonesia which wil be placed on November 15-16, Bali. This is also an unique opportunity to be with top leaders and government officials from all around the world and networking.

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Speakers for the Annual Meeting 2022 will be announce

Dr. Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno

Adesewa Josh

Journalist, TRT World

Dr. Sapta Nirwandar

Bulut Bagci

Dato Paduka Lim Jock Hoi

Arslan Kiran

Head of Growth Turkey/Germany/MENA, The Sandbox

Budi Karya Sumadi

Minister of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia

Liz Ortiguera

CEO, Pacific Asia Travel Association PATA

Irfan Setiaputra

CEO of Garuda Indonesia

Yang Li ( 李杨 )

Brune Poirson

Chief Sustainability Officer, Accor

Kusumo Martanto

Paul Endmundus Tallo

M. Gunawan Yasni

Prof. Wiendu Nuryanti

Gilda Sagrado

Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati

Vice Governor of Bali

Anna Gladman

Pauline Suharno

Association of Indonesia Travel Agent (ASTINDO)

Adrien Marie

Budi Tirtawisata

Hariyadi Sukamdani

Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya

Josianne Cutajar

Member of the European Parliament

Alphonzus Widjaja

Zeynep Utku

Sam Woollard

Chris Kerin

Ari Respati

István Ujhelyi

Quoc Bao Ngo

Ismail Ertug

Dimas Surya Yaputra

Dr Valerie Levine

Yulia Stark

Dr Amit Sharma

Global Expert for Sustainable Development Issues

Sachin Manocha

Armand Steinmeyer

Claudia Tapardel

Geraldine Low

José Ramón BAUZÁ DÍAZ

Minh Duc Ngo

Shirley Tan

Tan Sri Dr Rebecca Sta

Executive Director, APEC Secretariat

Conrad Clifford

Senior Vice President & Deputy Director General IATA

Jesper Palmqvist

Senior Director Asia Pacific – STR

Jeremy Oppenheim

Elena Kontoura

H.E. Dr. Htay Aung

Sorcha Hellyer

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• 09:30 Registration
• 10:30 All delegates are requested to be seated at the Grand Ballroom, Movenpick MC: Adesewa Josh, Journalist, TRT World (confirmed) Gilda Sagrado, Bali Bamboo Architecture & Bali Online Healing
• 10:45 – 11:15 Opening Ceremony Dr. Sapta Nirwandar, Chairman of ITF (confirmed) Bulut Bagci, President WTFI (confirmed) “Dr. Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, Minister Tourism and Creative Economy of the Republic of Indonesia (confirmed)” Joko Widodo, President The Republic of Indonesia (TBC)
• 11:15 – 11:25 Photo Session & Culture Performance
• 11:25 – 11:40 The G20 in Motion “Dr. Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, Minister Tourism and Creative Economy of the Republic of Indonesia”
• 11:40-11:45 Keynote1: Dato Paduka Lim Jock Hoi, Secretary General, ASEAN (confirmed, Video)
• 11:45 – 12:00 Keynote2: The Sandbox Tourismverse – How Metaverse is Reshaping the Tourism Industry’’ Arslan Kiran, Head of Growth Turkey/Germany/MENA, The Sandbox (confirmed)
• 12:00 – 13:15 Networking Lunch
• 13.15– 13.30 Special Keynote Speech : The Future of Post Pandemic Public Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi , Minister of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia (tbc)
• 13:30 – 14:20 Session 1 – Restoring Connectivity to Recover Conrad Clifford, Senior Vice President & Deputy Director General, IATA (confirmed) Liz Ortiguera, CEO, Pacific Asia Travel Association PATA (confirmed) Irfan Setiaputra, CEO of Garuda Indonesia (confirmed virtually) Moderator: Adesewa Josh, Journalist, TRT World
• 14:20-14:30 Video: Tan Sri Dr Rebecca Sta, Executive Director, APEC Secretariat (confirmed, 5′ Video)
• 14:30 – 14:45 Keynote3 – “Better Travel & Tourism, Better World” Jeremy Oppenheim, Founder & Senior Partner at Systemiq (confirmed)
• 14:45-15:45 Session 2 – Exploring the Future of Sustainability and Community value across Travel Joel Katz, Managing Director, CLIA Australasia & Asia (confirmed) Yang Li ( 李杨 ) – Head of Public Affairs, APAC Booking.com (confirmed) Brune Poirson, Chief Sustainability Officer, Accor (confirmed) Moderator: Jeremy Oppenheim, Founder & Senior Partner at Systemiq (Confirmed)
• 15:45 – 16:15 Networking Coffee and B2B meeting
• 16:15-16:30 Keynote4: An Integrated Tourism Ecosystem : Why it matters more today than ever. Kusumo Martanto, CEO Blibli, sponsor (confirmed)
• 16:30 – 17:30 Session 3 – The Future of Work – Jobs, Skills and Education Elena Kountoura, Member of the European Parliament (confirmed, virtually) Armand Steinmeyer, Vice President of Business Development, The Ascott Limited (confirmed) Paul Endmundus Tallo – Chairman Indonesia Inbound Tourism Association (IINTOA) “Moderator: Gunawan Yasni, Independent Consultant on Finance/Accounting and Capital Market”
• 17.30-17.45 Special Interview : Is Tourism a Driver of Gender Equality? Prof. Wiendu Nuryanti, Gajah Mada University, Vice Minister for Culture (confirmed & her preparation is ready) Interviewer : Gilda Sagrado, Bali Bamboo Architecture & Bali Online Healing
• 17:45-18:00 Closing Remakrs Taleb Rifai, Secretary General WTFI (confirmed)
• 19.30-21:30 Cultural Night & Gala Dinner (venue tba) Welcome speech from sponsor Yulia Stark, Founder and President of the European Women’s Association will launch Global First Ladies Initiative (GFLI)
• 10:00 – 10:15 Welcome Remarks Tjokorda Oka Artha Ardana Sukawati, Vice Governor of Bali (tbc)
• 10: 15- 10:30 Keynote5: Asia Pacific update in hotel performance and development and factors influencing the recovery Jesper Palmqvist, Senior Director – Asia Pacific – STR (confirmed)
• 10:30-11:30 Session 4 – Rebuilding MICE & Business travel Anna Gladman, Chief Executive Officer, nib Travel (confirmed) Pauline Suharno, Association of Indonesia Travel Agent (ASTINDO) – (confirmed) Jose Ramon Bauza, Member of the European Parliament (confirmed) Minh Duc Ngo, Chairman of ASIA DMC (confirmed) Adrien Marie, General Manager Movenpick Resort & Spa Jimbaran in Bali Moderator: Adesewa Josh, Journalist, TRT World (confirmed)
• 11:30-12:30 Special Session – New wave of Indonesia Tourism Budi Tirtawisata, CEO,PT. Panorama Sentrawisata, Haryadi Sukamdani, Chaiman of Indonesia Tourism Board (GIPI) Eddy Krismeidi , Director of Air Asia, Indonesia & President of ASEANTA Ida Bagus Ngurah Wijaya, Founder of Bali Village and Former Chairman of Bali Tourism Board (tbc) Moderator: Bulut Bağcı, Pesident WTFI
• 12:30-13:30 Networking Lunch
• 13:30-13:45 Special Message “Going Paperless in Traveling Using ABCD- X Technologies.” On Lee, CEO & CTO GDP Labs (sponsor), confirmed
• 13:45-14:45 Session 5 – Digital Transformation: The Traveler Experience of the future (Blockchain, etc) Claudia Tapardel, Global Public Speaker, Former Member of the European Parliament (confirmed, virtual) Josianne Cutajar, Member of the European Parliament (confirmed, virtual) Alphonzus Widjaja, Chairman of Indonesia Shopping Center Association (confirmed) Zeynep Utku, Co-Founder of GLOBART (confirmed) Adi Satria, Senior Vice President Operations and Government Relations at ACCOR Sam Woollard, CMO, Travala.com (confirmed) CHRIS KERIN MD, ATTIA – Asia Travel Tech Association (confirmed) Moderator: Moderator: Adesewa Josh, Journalist, TRT World
• 14:45-15:15 Session 6 – New Investment Models in Travel and Tourism Ari Respati, Presiden Director of ITDC-Mandalika (confirmed) István Ujhelyi, Member of the European Parliament (confirmed, virtual) Poernomo Siswoprasetijo, CEO of Banten West Java TDC Moderator: M. Gunawan Yasni, Independent Consultant on Finance/ Accounting and Capital Market (confirmed)
• 15:15 – 15:30 “Keynote 6: Metaverse – Explore the World virtually Visibility of the destinations, a new way of engaging with customers(booking systems) “ Quoc Bao Ngo Founder & CEO MyReality & Beyond
• 15:30-15:45 Special Interview: Ismail Ertug: Member of the European Parliament (virtually) Moderator: Bulut Bagci, The President of WTFI
• 15:45-16:00 Networking Coffee & B2B meeting
• 16:00-16:15 ” Guest speaker: Rebuild Tourism Ecosystem Pasca Pandemic Dimas Surya Yaputra, CCO, Tiket.com”
• 16:15-17:00 Special Session – Impact Investing: Trends & Opportunities Geraldine Low, Investor and Entrepreneur Founding & Managing Partner at Berioza Associates (confirmed) Dr Valerie Levine- CEO Imperial Green Capital, green project investor UK. Peta Milan- Founder / Principal Henmil Group Family Office Moderator: Yulia Stark, Founder and President of the European Women’s Association (confirmed)
• 17:00-17:15 Closing Remarks Ni Made Ayu Martini, Deputy Minister for Marketing, Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy

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