15 December
Local Date: Dec 14 2024 |
Local Time: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Raymond is a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Tourism Sport and Hotel Management, Griffith University. His scholarly interests and expertise lie in the fields of justice, sustainability transitions, and environmental conservation. His recent research has focused on promoting sustainable management practices and building inclusive futures through sustainability transitions at local, national, and global levels. His research aims to deliver new insights into the tourism phenomenon, advocating for a more just and sustainable future for both humans and nonhumans. |
Amonzoda Shirin – Minister of Labor, Migration and Employment, Republic of Tajikistan (as of November 2020). Had worked as a Chairman, Committee of Tourism Development under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan (Jan.-Nov.2020), earlier Deputy Chairperson of the abovementioned Committee (2017-2020). Graduated from Asia Pacific University with the specialty of International Cooperation Policy, Development Economics. Worked on research “Tourism Public Planning Policy and its impact to national economy”, (Japan, 2016), History of East poetry in England and America (Dushanbe, 2004), independent author of several publications in frame of the Dialogue of Civilization (1999-2004), etc. Until 2017, Chief Specialist of the Main Department of Trade Policy and Consumer Market (2012-2017), Chief Specialist of the Department for Cooperation with Foreign Countries (2007-2012), a Chief Specialist of the Protocol Service (2005-2007) at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Republic of Tajikistan. During the 2000-2004 years had worked with the International Organization for Migration (Dushanbe, 2000-2001), the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (Dushanbe-Afghanistan, 2001-2004), the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (Dushanbe 2004), Aichi World EXPO (Japan, 2005). Ms. Amonzoda has become one of the first start-uppers in Tajikistan to pave the way towards tourism development as a separate sector for reinforcing capacity building, infrastructure development, enhancing investment, bettering the quality of service and tourism promotion issues. A person in charge for the Strategy of Tourism development in the Republic of Tajikistan until the period 2030, that covers various areas of the tourism sector, in particular, improving the quality of service in airports, simplification of visa issuance and registration, licensing tourist entrepreneurship, destination management organizations in the regions of the country and other important aspects of this industry. Based on this strategy, there had been attracted grants from ADB and WB to fund first projects on Tourism development and Rural Economic Development Projects with involvement of international consultants from UNWTO. It must be noted that the methodology and analysis that would be held, will lead the initial steps towards sustainable tourism growth in Tajikistan. |
Chief of Member Relations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). / Beka Jakeli has been working at the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) since June 2012 currently being Chief of Member Relations overseeing relations and policy with the Organization´s Member States. Beka Jakeli brings valuable expertise on tourism destination management having served as Deputy Chairman at the Georgian National Tourism Administration (2008-2012) responsible for policy, market research, international cooperation and fundraising activities. At the same time he was speaker of the Government on incentives, investments and infrastructure in tourism sector. Mr. Jakeli holds the MBA degree in Hospitality and Tourism Management from the Tbilisi State Institute of Economic Relations and completed postgraduate course in Destination Management in the USA. In 2011, by the decree of the President of Georgia, Beka Jakeli was awarded with the state award “The Order of Honor” for his outstanding contribution to the development of the tourism sector. |
Dr. Hassan Ansari, Iranian e-tourism Association exacut manager. رییس جامعه گردشگری الکترونیکی |
ِDr. Vali Teymouri is the Deputy Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts of Iran. He has completed his PhD in economic geography with a focus on tourism. In addition to educational and research activities, he has extensive activities in various government departments |
Dr. Kazem Vafadari is Director of International Center for Asia Pacific Tourism (iCAPt); and Academic Director of the Kunisaki City Research Center for world agriculture heritage in Oita, Japan. He is a Professor and Vice Dean for International Affairs, College of Sustainability and Tourism at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU). He worked with United Nations University and Kanazawa University in Japan before joining APU in 2011. He is an expert on sustainable tourism, natural resource management and tourism applications of agriculture heritage landscapes. His research background also includes community building, rural revitalization and destination branding. |
Jafar Jafari is Founding Editor, Annals of Tourism Research; Chief Editor, Tourism Social Science Series; Co-Editor, Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice; Co-Editor, Encyclopedia of Tourism; Co-Founder, TRINET; Founding President, International Academy for the Study of Tourism; Co-Founding Editor, Information Technology & Tourism; and Co-Founding President Tourism Intelligence Forum. |
Dr. Hamid Zargham Boroujeni is a professor at Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran. He is the founder of academic program in Iran, Allameh Tabatabai University and is known as the . He teaches , and and has published more than 80 research papers. He has also authored or translated 15 textbooks for tourism in Persian. Dr. Zargham has more than 25 years of experience in consulting tourism development projects and has been encouraged for practical research in tourism planning. He is currently the chief editor of and is a member of the editorial board of several specialized tourism quarterly journals such as and . |
University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Dr Zarezadeh has a PhD degree in Tourism Marketing from the University of Queensland, Australia. She has more than a decade of teaching experience both in Iran and Australia. She has been actively involved in a number of research projects on social media marketing and online information search behaviour. Her research interests focus on information technology, information search, social media marketing, and adoption and use of technologies in tourism. She has published her research outcomes in top tourism journals such as Journal of Sustainable Tourism and Current Issues in Tourism. |
Mahda Tadbiri is Assistant General Manager, Espinas Palace Hotel, Tehran. She has a Master degree in English Translation (University of Damavand), a degree in Aircraft Safety and Services (Prince Sultan Aviation Academy, Saudi Arabia), Executive MBA (Sharif University of Technology), and a certificate in (online) Executive Education Programs (Harvard University, USA). She assists in designing and implementing staff matrix, BSC strategic management, and budgeting system in the Espinas Hotel Group. Previously she was Senior Flight Attendant in Saudi Arabian Airlines. |
Raymond Rastegar Australia | |
Shirin Amonzoda Tajikistan | |
Beka Jakeli Spain | |
Hassan Ansari Iran | |
Vali Teymouri Iran | |
Kazem Vafadari Japan | |
Jafar Jafari Spain | |
Hamid Zargham Iran | |
Zohreh Zarezadeh Australia | |
Mahda Tadbiri Interpreter | |