Day 1 – Monday 1 November 2021
Venue: Platinum Suite, Excel, London

Master of Ceremony – Paul Hoskins, Director ITIC Ltd and Invest Tourism Ltd

 

10:00 – 10:30 GMT Registration

 

10:30 – 10:35 GMT Introduction by Paul Hoskins, Director ITIC Ltd and Invest Tourism Ltd

 

10:35 – 10:45 GMT Welcome Speeches

 

Speakers:

 

• Dr. Taleb Rifai Chairman of ITIC & Former Secretary-General,UNWTO
• Simon Press, Senior Exhibition Director, WTM

 

10:45 GMT Morning conversations

 

10:45 – 11:05 GMT Current Economic Outlook, predictions and Recovery plan for 2022

 

Mark Beer, OBE, Chairman of Metis Institute in conversation with Professor Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford

 

11:05 – 11:30 GMT Restarting the Travel and Tourism sector

 

Gerald Lawless, Director, ITIC in a One-to-one Conversation with Julia Simpson, CEO, WTTC

 

11:30 – 12:00 GMT Building tourism resilience by expanding air connectivity

 

Rajan Datar, Presenter and Broadcaster, BBC in conversation with Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism of Jamaica and Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of Flydubai

 

12:00 – 12:10 GMT Discover Botswana

 

Presentation by Hon. Phildah Kereng, Minister of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism

 

 

12:10 – 13:10 GMT ITIC Tourism Investment MINISTERIAL PANEL
Reimaging incentives to attract FDI to tourism destinations and to reposition the industry as a main driver of economic growth

 

Moderator: Rajan Datar, Presenter and Broadcaster, BBC

 

Introduction by Dr. Taleb Rifai, Chairman ITIC and former Secretary-General UNWTO

 

Speakers:

 

• Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism, Jamaica
• Hon. Nayef Al Fayez, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Jordan
• Hon. Najib Balala, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, Kenya
• Amr El-Kady, CEO, Egyptian Tourism Promotion Board

 

13:10 – 13:15 GMT Shackle – Your Next Generation Hotel

 

Project Presentation by Mark Abraham, Founder & CEO, Shackle

 

13:15 – 14:00 GMT Refreshment and Networking Session

 

14:00 – 14:45 GMT Health: Investment in regional vaccination plants as a pre-requisite to restore trust in travel and tourism

 

Moderator: Rajan Datar, Presenter & Broadcaster, BBC

 

Speakers:

 

• Dr. Taleb Rifai, Chairman ITIC & former Secretary-General, UNWTO
• Elena Kountoura, Member of European Parliament
• Cuthbert Ncube, Executive Chairman Africa Tourism Board
• Denis Kinane, Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Cign Post Diagnostics, UK

 

14:45 – 15:00 GMT Development of a new Lifestyle Tourism City in San Pedro, Cote D’Ivoire

 

Presentation by Joseph Grah, Project Development Partner

 

15:00 – 15:15 GMT Presentation by Manuel González Buiza, CEO, Tourism Optimizer Platform

 

15:15 – 15:30 GMT How to attract tourism and investments from China towards the global recovery

 

Introduction by Paul Hoskins, Director ITIC Ltd and Invest Tourism Ltd

 

Presentation by Marcus Lee, Chairman of Association of SME Business owner

 

15:30 – 16:00 GMT Restructuring travel and tourism businesses to lower debt exposure, with new strategic investments to return to profitability path

 

An interactive conversation with:

 

• Mark Beer, OBE. Chairman, Metis Institute
• Dinky Puri, Founding Partner, Eagle Wing Group
• Gerald Lawless, Director ITIC and Ambassador WTTC

 

16:00 – 16:30 GMT Destination Focus: Investment opportunities in the United Kingdom

 

A thought-provoking discussion between Rajan Datar, Presenter and Broadcaster, BBC and Christopher Rodrigues, Chairman of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency and former Chairman of Visit Britain

 

16:30 – 17:15 GMT Re-energising regional destinations through branding and investments to boost tourist arrivals

 

Moderator: Rajan Datar, Presenter and Broadcaster, BBC

 

Introduction: Professor Dimitrios Buhalis, Director eTourism Lab & Deputy Director International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research, Bournemouth University Business School

 

Speakers:

 

• Ian Liddell-Grainger, MP (UK) and Acting-Chairman, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
• Hon. Memunatu B. Pratt, Minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs, Sierra Leone
• Nikolina Angelkova, Former Minister of Tourism, Bulgaria
• Mobin Rafiq, Investor, Entrepreneur and President of the Commonwealth Entrepreneur Club
• Andrew Agius Muscat, Secretary-General, Mediterranean Tourism Foundation
• Thoyyib Mohamed, Managing Director, Maldives Marketing and PR Corporation

 

17:15 – 17:30 GMT Closing – Conversation

 

Speakers:

 

• Rajan Datar, Presenter and Broadcaster, BBC
• Dr. Taleb Rifai, Chairman of ITIC & Former Secretary-General UNWTO
• Simon Press, Senior Exhibition Director, WTM
• Gerald Lawless, Director ITIC & Invest Tourism
• Paul Hoskins, Director, ITIC & Invest Tourism
• Ibrahim Ayoub, Group CEO & MD ITIC & Invest Tourism Ltd