Excessive Elevation Time for Three World Tourism Community Executives


The Himalayan Journey Mart lately partnered with the World Tourism Community, a company with journey and tourism members and locations in 132 international locations.

World Tourism Community has been talking out for the various Medium and Small measurement companies within the world journey and tourism trade. (SMEs). WTN supplies a community benefiting a dialog for SMEs with the general public sector and bigger gamers within the journey trade.

The 5-star downtown Resort Yak and Yeti & Resort Annapurna, located within the coronary heart of the capital metropolis, Kathmandu, will host the occasion.

Mr. Vijay Poonoosamy, chairman of the Aviation Curiosity Group for the World Tourism Community and the founder and chairman of WTN Juergen Steinmetz, are among the many audio system.

Members of the World Tourism Community are invited and inspired to be a part of this essential occasion and meet fellow WTN members.

Himalayan Journey Mart (HTM) is Nepal’s premier worldwide journey and tourism commerce present facilitating unparalleled networking and enterprise alternatives and priceless trade insights among the many world tourism and hospitality organizations and people engaged in numerous elements of tourism within the Himalayan area.

This Enterprise to Enterprise (B2B) mart gives a singular platform for tourism advertising and marketing and promotion, availing the outstanding gathering of World Consumers, Himalayan Sellers, Journey Bloggers, Influencers, Nationwide and Worldwide Media, Journey Business Professionals, and Delegates from all over the world.

Three World Tourism Community members will converse on the Himalayan Journey Mart.

The keynote handle will likely be offered by

Vijay Poonoosamy, WTN Aviation Chairman

Vijay Poonoosamy has over 30 years of expertise in worldwide legislation, good governance, public affairs, aviation, tourism, and worldwide relations. He’s famend for his dedication to and advocacy for integrity, transparency, fairness, inclusivity, and sustainability. As well as, he has an in depth world community.

Vijay was known as to the Bar in London (Center Temple) and Mauritius after incomes his BA (Hons) in Legislation from the College of Nottingham, LL.M (Worldwide Legislation) from the London Faculty of Economics & Political Science, and Submit Graduate Diploma in Air and House Legislation from the London Institute of World Affairs. He additionally holds a Certificates in Firm Route from the Institute of Administrators in New Zealand.

Vijay has held a number of important positions all through his profession, together with Director of Authorized and Worldwide Affairs of Air Mauritius, Managing Director of Air Mauritius, Government Chairman of Airports of Mauritius, Chief Working Officer of the Commonwealth Affiliation for Company Governance, and Vice-President of Worldwide and Public Affairs of Etihad Airways.

He was elected chair of the historic 4th Worldwide Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Worldwide Air Transport Convention, IATA’s Business Affairs Committee, and IATA’s Authorized Advisory Group. He additionally served as Rapporteur of the ICAO Authorized Committee on the Modernisation and Consolidation of the Warsaw System of Guidelines for worldwide carriage by Air, Chair of the ICAO Particular Working Group on the Warsaw Conference, and Chair of ICAO’s Drafting Group on the 1999 Montreal Conference for the Unification of Sure Guidelines for Worldwide Carriage by Air.

Vijay presently holds numerous Directorships and is the Aviation Group Chairman of the World Tourism Community. He’s additionally a Member of the World Financial Discussion board’s Gender Parity Steering Committee.

Vijay’s Honors and Awards embrace the next: 

  • Safer Tourism’s Corridor of Worldwide Tourism Heroes, 2020 
  • Bhartiya Shiromani Puraskar Award by the Institute of Financial Research of India for “Excellent Contribution to Worldwide Aviation”, 2008
  • Most Excellent Younger Individual of the Republic of Mauritius Award by the Jeune Chambre Economique de Maurice, 1996
  • ICAO fiftieth Anniversary Medal by the Republic of France, 1994
  • The Legislation Graduates Affiliation Moot Prize by the College of Nottingham, 1983

Juergen Steinmetz, WTN Founder and Chairman

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz is the Founding father of the World Tourism Community (WTN), who additionally based the eTurboNews in 1999 as the primary on-line e-newsletter for the worldwide journey tourism trade.

Having began his profession as a journey agent in Germany in 1979, Juergen has been constantly concerned within the journey and tourism trade. Right now, he is among the most influential figures within the trade because the writer of this 2 million attain circulation publication, eTurboNews (eTN).

Juergen can also be the CEO of the TravelNewsGroup, and a founding chair of the African Tourism Board. He serves on the board of a number of worldwide journey and tourism-related associations.

Over time, Juergen has labored and collaborated with numerous nationwide tourism places of work, non-governmental organizations, and personal and non-profit organizations and has been concerned in planning, implementing, and high quality management of assorted journey and tourism-related actions and applications, together with tourism insurance policies and laws.

Juergen’sstrengths embrace his huge information of the journey and tourism trade from the angle of a profitable personal enterprise proprietor, his wonderful networking expertise, sturdy management, very good communication expertise, potential to work successfully in a staff, consideration to element, dutiful respect for compliance in all regulated environments, and advisory expertise in each political and non-political arenas regarding tourism applications, insurance policies, and laws.

He has an intensive information of present trade practices and developments and is a pc and Web junkie.

Chief Government Officer (CEO) -China Outbound Tourism Analysis Institute (COTRI)


Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt FRGS FRAS has 45 years of working in worldwide tourism, primarily specializing in the Chinese language outbound tourism supply market. His profession contains 20 years as a tenured professor of Worldwide Tourism Administration and CEO of the China Outbound Tourism Analysis Institute (COTRI), based mostly in Hamburg.

He lately added the Significant Tourism paradigm to the toolbox for profitable and sustainable tourism growth for Chinese language and different supply markets by offering coaching and consulting for corporations and organizations worldwide.

He’s a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society (London), in addition to a analysis Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo) and a member of the Skilled Committee of the World Tourism Cities Federation (Beijing).

Dr. Wolfgang is co-author of the current publication 88 Sensible Methods to Put together for the New Wave of Chinese language Guests. China Outbound Tourism Handbook 2023, printed in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and German, and editor of the brand new periodical COTMI China Outbound Tourism Market Intelligence, which can also be printed in a number of languages.

Dr. Arlt is a member and frequent contributor to the World Tourism Community.

For extra data on World Tourism Community (WTN), go to www.wtn.journey

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