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The 3rd Global Summit On Peace Through Tourism featuring the theme, “One Earth One Family: Travel and Tourism - Serving a Higher Purpose” will be held in Pattaya, Thailand during October 2-5, 2005.
The 3rd Global Summit on Peace through Tourism, in support of the U.N. Decade of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World and the U.N. Millennium Goals, sets out to develop a “21st century Agenda for Peace through Tourism” and addresses the key global issues of our time.
The summit is being organised by the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) with the support and collaboration of the Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau (TCEB), and the World Tourism Organization (WTO).
The International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to fostering and facilitating tourism initiatives which contribute to international understanding and cooperation, an improved quality of environment, the preservation of heritage, and through these initiatives, help to bring about a peaceful and sustainable world.
The 3rd Global Summit will bring together senior executives from all sectors of the travel and tourism industry, public and private; UN agencies, donor agencies, and NGO’s; leading educators, policy analysts, researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, future leaders of the industry; and senior representatives from related sectors including: Culture, Sport, Environment, and Sustainable Economic Development.
PROGRAMME
Keynote speakers will include world leaders, travel industry statesmen, and leaders in related sectors such as environment, culture, sport, and sustainable economic development.
In addition to Plenary Sessions featuring world leaders and travel industry statesmen, concurrent sessions will provide leading edge case studies of “Success Stories and Models of Best Practice” demonstrating travel and tourism initiatives that promote cultural and international understanding, ecological enhancement and the preservation of biodiversity, an improved quality of environment, poverty reduction and sustainable development. The summit will also address the growing contribution of sport to international understanding and development and what more can be done in each of these areas through collaborative initiatives.
“Success Stories and Models of Best Practice”
Topics to be highlighted
Tourism contribution to Poverty Reduction
MicroEnterprise and SME Development
Community Capacity Building
Healing the Wounds of Conflict
Linkages of Tourism – Environment – Wildlife – and Poverty Reduction
Parks and Protected Areas – Preserving our Bio-Diversity
Role of the Media in Building a Culture of Peace through Tourism
Youth Travel and Empowerment
Volunteer Tourism
Philanthropic Tourism
Educating for a Culture of Peace through Tourism
Sport for Peace and Development
Linkages of Tourism, Culture, the Arts, and Heritage in Building a
Culture of Mutual Understanding and Peace
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME
http://www.iipt.org/3rdglobalsummit/
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Forums
Special Forums will be held including an Educators Forum, Student/Youth Leadership Forum, Young Professionals Forum, and Forums on Community Tourism, Spirituality in Tourism, and Cultural Tourism.
Summit Goals
- Provide a forum for leading government, industry, donor agency, and NGO decision-makers, as well as leading educators, researchers, professionals and practitioners, to debate and reach consensus on the contribution of the world’s largest industry to the global issues of our time, including:
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a coordinated and sustained travel industry response to redevelopment and revitalisation of tsunami affected countries |
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poverty reduction |
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healing the wounds of conflict |
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preventing conflict through promoting cultural and international understanding, tolerance, and cooperation |
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ecological enhancement and the preservation of biodiversity |
- Facilitate strategic government, private sector, donor agency, and NGO alliances to achieve the these goals.
- Demonstrate current progress towards these goals with ‘Success Stories’ and ‘Models of ‘Best Practice.’
- Through marketing and promotion of the Summit, support the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) in disseminating the message that: Tourists and travelers to tsunami affected countries are welcome and needed; that tourist enjoyment of a destination sends an authentic message of caring, solidarity and support for recovery; and that all tourists are assured of a warm welcome.
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Foundations
The 3rd Global Summit builds on the foundations of two previous Summits in Amman, 2000 and Geneva 2003; three African Conferences on Peace through Tourism: Mpumalanga Province, South Africa 2001; Dar es Salaam, 2003; and Lusaka, 2005; three earlier Global Conferences: Vancouver, 1988; Montreal, 1994; Glasgow, 1999; and other conferences and symposia in Italy, Turkey, Greece, Australia, the Caribbean, Pakistan, Israel, United States and United Kingdom.
Web site: http://www.iipt.org
REGISTRATION
http://www.iipt.org/3rdglobalsummit/
Official Hotel and Venue
Royal Cliff Beach Resort
353 Phra Tamnuk Road,
Pattaya, Cholburi 20150
Tel: +66 (0) 3825 0421
Fax: +66 (0) 3825 0844
E-mail: info@royalcliff.com, reservations@royalcliff.com
Websites:
www.royalcliff.com
www.peachthailand.com
The award winning Royal Cliff Beach Resort is providing special room rates for all Summit delegates. Special rates are available up to May 28th. Please contact: reservations@royalcliff.com
The Royal Cliff Beach Resort & PEACH is easily accessible to physically challenged visitors.
Press Registration
All media are invited to cover the IIPT 3rd Global Summit on Peace through Tourism in Pattaya, Thailand, upon approval of their press credentials.
http://www.iipt.org/3rdglobalsummit/
Thailand Visa Information
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