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IIPT World Symposium
Cultivating Sustainable and Peaceful Communities and Nations
through Tourism, Culture and Sport
February 16 – 19, 2015
Emperors Palace, Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg, South Africa
PROGRAM
SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2015
Dedication of IIPT/Skal Cities, Towns and Villages across South Africa
MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2015
07h30:
Registration Opens
08h30:
All Day Forums & Workshops
Educators Forum
Moderated by Dr. Patrick Kalifungwa, Vice Chancellor, Livingstone International University of Tourism Excellence and
Business Management (LIUTEBM) and Dr. Nellie Swart, Professor, UNISA
Student/Youth Leadership Forum
Moderated by Nishit Charadva, Coordinator, IIPT Student/Youth Leadership Network; Daniel Adidwa, CEO, Tour2.0.
and Victor Mutanga, CEO, Afro Global Youth Exchange
Community Tourism Workshop
Facilitated by Diana McIntyre Pike, Founder/President Countrystyle Community Tourism; Founder/President Villages
as Businesses
Media Workshop
Facilitated by Bea Broda, President of BC Pictures, Past President, Society of American Travel Writers (SATW).
IPT Family Meeting
IIPT Board of Directors, Advisory Board members ect.
08h30
08h30
08h30
10h30
11h00
11h00
13h00
13h00
13h00
15h00
15h15
15h30
Full day Forums & Workshops
Educators
Student/Youth Leadership
Media Workshop
Tea / Coffee Interlude
Educators
Student/Youth Leadership
Media Workshop
Lunch
IIPT Family Workshop
Educators
Student/Youth Leadership
Tea / Coffee Interlude
IIPT Young Professionals Inaugural Meeting
Educators
Student/Youth Leadership
17h30:
Inter-faith Service
19h00:
Welcome Reception at Randlords
Community Tourism Workshop
Community Tourism Workshop
Community Tourism Workshop
Community Tourism Workshop
TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2015
07h30:
Registration Opens
08h30:
OPENING AND WELCOME
Master of Ceremony – Ms. Anita Mendiratta, Founder and Managing Director, Cachet Consulting
Opening Blessing – Video Taped Message from Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Welcome Address - Hon. Derek Hanekom, Minister of Tourism, South Africa
Welcome Address – Hon. Clr Mondli Gungubele, Executive Mayor of Ekurhuleni
09h00:
Symposium Keynote Address: Dr. Taleb Rifai, Secretary General, United Nations World Tourism
Organization (UNWTO)
Thank you – Dr. Louis D’Amore IIPT Founder and President
10h00:
Tea / Coffee Interlude
10h30:
Plenary 1 - Global Perspectives on Cultivating Sustainable and Peaceful Communities and Nations
Mr. David Scowsill, President and CEO, World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC)
Mrs. Geraldine Reymenants, General Representative of the Government of Flanders in South Africa
Mr. Salih Cene, President, Skal International and Nigel Pilkington, First Vice President, Skal International
(co-presenting)
12h00:
Lunch
13h30:
Concurrent Sessions A
A-1 International Models of
Socially and Environmentally
Responsible Tourism
A-2 Community Tourism –
Pathway to Sustainable and
Peaceful Communities
A-3 The Role of Sports and
Culture in Peace Building
Moderator and Presenter:
Gopinath (Gopi) Parayil,
Founder of the award winning
Blue Yonder
Moderator and Presenter:
Diana McIntyre Pike,
President, Countrystyle
Community Tours & President,
Villages as Businesses,
President, IIPT Caribbean
Chapter
Moderator and Presenter:
Steve DeVoss, Founder and
President Global Sports
Partners
Mayor Akram Bader, Mayor,
Town of Battir, Palestine –
IIPT/Skal Peace Town
Dr. Bernardus van der Spuy
Director, Sport for Peace,
UNESCO
Majed Elkheir, Founder and
President, Net249 Advertising
and Travel2Sudan
Cassandra De Pecol,
TriAthlete and World Traveler
Participatory engagement and
Responsible Tourism towards
Sustainable Development.
Dr. Jovan Popesku, Full
Professor at SINGIDUNUM
UNIVERSITY, Belgrade, Serbia
and President, Centre for
Responsible and Sustainable
Tourism Development,
Belgrade; former Director of
National Tourist Office, Serbia.
Kitty Pope, award winning
African American Travel
Journalist, Creator of the Africa
Diaspora Heritage Trail World
Tourism Awards;
African Diaspora Cultural and
Heritage Tourism as a Tool to
help Healing from Legacy of
Slavery
Sana Butler, Founder & CEO
Community Tourism and ReDevelopment in Sudan
Simon Manda, Founder and
President, This Ability
Opportunities for All
Sport for Development and
Peace
Global Journey as an IIPT
Ambassador for Peace
Nellie Khoza
Impacts of ballroom dance on
Youth
Transformative Tourism
Development Group
How impact investors can
develop tourism with zero
leakages?
15h00:
Tea / Coffee Interlude
15h30:
Plenary 2 - Regional and Sectoral Perspectives Driving Peace through Tourism
Hon. Alain St. Ange, Minister of Tourism, Seychelles
Martin Craigs, Chairman, Aerospace Forum Asia, President and CEO, Pacific Asia Travel Association
(PATA) November 2011 – November 2014.
Professor Geoffrey Lipman, President, International Coalition of Tourism Partners (ICTP).
17h00:
Conference Closes
WEDNESDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2015
07h30:
Registration Opens
08h30:
Plenary 3 - Lessons Learned from Countries that have Experienced Conflict
Hon. Maria Mutagamba, Minister of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities
Hon. Deepak Chandra Amatya, Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Nepal
Mr. Paul Bewsher, Program Manager, Peace Park Foundation
Amb. Yamina Karitanyi, Head of Tourism and Conservation, Rwanda (Invited)
Hon. Jean Kapata, Minister of Tourism and Arts, Zambia (invited)
10h00:
Tea / Coffee Interlude
10h30:
Concurrent Sessions B
B-1 International Models of
Sustainable Communities and
Destinations
Moderator and Presenter: Judy
Karwacki Small Planet
Consulting
Experiential Community Tourism
B-2 Community
Empowerment – Foundations
for Sustainable and Peaceful
Communities
Moderator and Presenter: Dr.
Toni Neubauer, Founder and
President, Myths and
Mountains; Founder and
President; Founder, award
winning Rural Education and
Development (READ Global).
B-3 International Models of
Tourism and Environment
Peter Prokosch, Founder
Linking Tourism and
Conservation (LT&C)
Peace through Tourism by Peace
with Nature How can Linking Tourism &
Conservation contribute?
Sustainability and Development:
Moving from Charity to
Empowerment and Independence
Hani Abu Dayyeh, President,
Near East Tourist Agency (NET)
and negotiator of the Tourism
Section of the Oslo Peace
Accords for the Palestinians
Proposed Best Practices in
Tourism derived from the three
Abrahamic Faiths
Lucky K. Chhetri, President of
award winning Three Sisters
Trekking, empowering the
women of Nepal.
Empowering Women through
Adventure Sports Tourism
Daniela Sachs, Implementation
Strategist, Sustainable Travel
International (STI)
Daniel Raphael, Ph.D., Social
Sustainability Leadership
Training and Consultancy
Mr. Cuthbert Ncube, Regional
Vice President, UN World
Tourism Organization
Associates
Social Sustainability Design
Teams (SSDTs) for Community
Capacity Buillding.
Marthe Muller, Chief
Operations Officer, South
African Women in Dialogue
Towards Social Sustainability
and the Equal Growth of All:
Lessons from South African
Women and Club Med
12h00:
Lunch
Galeo Saintz, Founding
Chair, World Trails Network;
Founder, Wild Peace Alliance;
Chair, Nelson Mandela
Long Walk Pilgrimage
Dr. Freddy Manongi
Conservator, Ngorongoro
Conservation Area Authority,
Tanzania
Living in Peace with Indigenous
People through Giving them
Rights, Benefits of Tourism and
Responsibility to Manage Wildlife
in Ngorongoro, Tanzania'
Francois Viljoen, Managing
Director, Open Africa
13h30:
Plenary 4 – Honoring the Legacies of our Champions of Peace and Non-Violence by Building
Bridges of Tourism, Friendship and Peace in Regions throughout the World
Ms. Naomi King, Co-founder, AD King Center, Atlanta
Ela Gandhi, Founder, Gandhi Development Trust
Family member, Nelson Mandela Family (To be announced)
Rev. Mpho Tutu, Executive Director, Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation
Video Presentation honoring the legacies of Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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GANDHI MANDELA KING in the 21 Century, Birad Rajaram Yajnik, author, speaker and curator
IIPT presentation of Honorary Plaques
15h00:
Tea / Coffee Interlude
15h30:
Concurrent Sessions C
C-1 – International Models of
Socially and Environmentally
Responsible Tourism (2)
Moderator and Presenter,
Martha Honey, Co-Founder
and Co-Director, Center for
Responsible Travel (CREST)
C2 - Fair Trade in Tourism –
Models of Best Practice
Jean Marc Mignon, President,
Organisation Internationale du
Tourisme Social (O.I.T.S.)
Bianca Makhubela, Assistant
Director, Responsible Tourism
Directorate, National
Department of Tourism (NDT),
South Africa
Promoting Social Tourism in
Regions throughout the World
Jayanthi Iyengar, Founder,
India Tourism eCatalog
Models of Sustainable and
Responsible Best Practice from
India
Sue Badyari, CEO World
Expeditions
The Contribution of Adventure
Travel to Sustainable and
Peaceful Communities
17h00:
Conference Closes
Moderator and Presenter,
Jennifer Seif, Executive
Director, Fair Trade Tourism
The panel will feature case
studies of community-based
FTT-certified businesses to
demonstrate the positive effects
of responsible tourism for
people, businesses and the
environment.
Mfanelo Ritilili, Director, Coffee
Shack Backpackers
Peterson Mahlangu, Founder,
Inbound Peace Tour Operator
and Fundani Tours
Lebo Malepa. Owner,
Lebo’s Soweto Backpackers
and Bicycle Tours
Charl Pretorius, Owner,
Kwalata (Dinokeng Game
Reserve)
C-3 Educating for Sustainable
and Peaceful Communities
and Nations
Moderator and Presenter: Dr.
Patrick Kalifunwa, Vice
Chancellor of the award winning
Livingstone International
University of Tourism
Excellence and Business
Management (LIUTEBM).
Dr. Nellie Swart, Professor,
UNISA
Dr. Ernie Heath, Professor,
Department of Business
Management, University of
Pretoria
Prof. Ajit Sikand, Technical
University of Dresden,
Frankfurt, Germany
THURSDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2015
07h30:
Registration Opens
08h30:
Plenary 5 - Media Exchange - Role of the Media in Cultivating Sustainable and Peaceful
Communities and Nations through Tourism, Culture and Sport
Moderator: Anita Mendiratta, Cache Consulting
Thomas Steinmetz, Publisher, eTurbo News;
Kitty Pope, Creator, Africa Diaspora Tourism Awards;
Bea Broda, President, BC Pictures and Past President, Society of American Travel Writers (SATW).
Sandy Dhuyvetter, Executive Producer and Host, Travel Talk Media
Prominent South African Journalists (2) - to be announced
10h00:
Tea / Coffee Interlude
10h30:
Concurrent Sessions D
D-1 Models of Best Practice
among Indigenous
Communities
Moderator and Presenter:
Glendyrr Fick, Manager Trade
and Development, Knysna
Tourism
Marsha Smoke, President,
Pash Travel – Indigenous
Tourism: To Journey into the
Future, One Must Understand
the Past
Judy Karwacki, Small Planet
Consulting,
D-2 Community and National
Culture of Peace Initiatives
D-3 Youth Empowerment
Moderator and Presenter: Dr.
David Adams, Founder and
Coordinator of the Culture of
Peace News Network.
Enzo Fazzino, Director for
Africa, UNESCO, Culture of
Peace Program
Moderator and Presenter:
Nishit Charadva, Coordinator,
IIPT International Student/Youth
Leadership Network
Daniel Adidwe, CEO, Tour2.0.
Bunny Bhoola, Managing
Director, African Links
Victor Mutanga, CEO, Afro
Global Youth Exchange
Stephen Pashagumskum,
Owner, Pash Travel, Indigenous
Tourism in Eeyou Istchee.
Dr. Britt Baillie Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow, University of
Pretoria
If You Take Care of the Land, the
Land will Take Care of You.
Plurality for Peace: The Role of
'Alternative Tours
Mthobisi Mkhize,
President/Founder, Rural Youth
Development Foundation;
CEO/Founder, Umvithi Youth
Development Consultants;
CEO, Imbo Global
"Building sustainable
communities by acting local and
thinking global."
Indigenous artisan Tourism
development in Belize
Youth development through
tourism, culture and sport
initiatives, a key to Cultivating
Sustainable and Peaceful
Communities and Nations
12h00:
Lunch
13h30:
Concurrent Sessions E
E-1 Innovations in Educating
for Peace
Moderator and Presenter:
Kathy Lingle Pond, Semester
at Sea/ Institute for Shipboard
E-2 The Long Run Initiative International Models of Best
Practice
Sibylle Riedmiller, Chumbe
Island Coral Park, Zanzibar
(Tanzania)
E-3 The Key Element of Food
in Nurturing Peaceful
Families and Communities
Moderator and Presenter: Nikki
Rose, Founder & Director,
Crete’s Culinary Sanctuaries
Education
Barbara Allison and Fred
Benneh, The GodFreds
Foundation, Educational and
Philanthropic Tourism
Carla Ferreira, Board Member,
WYSE Travel Confederation
Michael Lutzeyer, Grootbos
Private Nature Reserve (South
Africa)
Lana Muller, Campi ya Kanzi
(Kenya)
and Eco-Agritourism Network
Glendyrr Fick, Founder and
CEO, Green Chefs; Manager
Trade and Development,
Knysna Tourism
Kunjal Charadva, Herbal
Peace Gardens
Harith Wickrema, Chief
Visionary Officer, Eco Serendib
Villa and Spa, St. John, USVI
15h00:
Tea / Coffee Interlude
15h30:
Closing Plenary
Summaries of Pre-Symposium Forums
Summaries of Plenary Sessions
Summaries of Concurrent Sessions
Announcement of Symposium Legacy Projects
IIPT President declares the Symposium officially closed
17h00:
Conference Closes
19h30:
Gala Dinner Evening
FRIDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2015
09h00:
Study Visit to Local Township
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