13 June
Local Date: Jun 13 2023 |
Local Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
![]() |
Sandra Carvão is Chief, Tourism Market Intelligence and Competitiveness at the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Prior to taking up this post in June 2018, Sandra was UNWTO Chief of Communications and Publications for eight years, a period during which she was responsible for the Organization’s strategic positioning and outreach. Sandra was Deputy Chief at UNWTO’s Market Trends, Competitiveness and Trade in Tourism Services Department between 2007 and 2010. During this period, Sandra coordinated the Tourism Resilience Committee created by UNWTO to address the impacts on tourism of the global economic crisis 2008-2009. Before joining UNWTO in 2003, she was a market manager in the Portuguese National Tourist Office in Lisbon. Sandra has a degree in International Relations, Economics Branch, from the Instituto de Ciências Sociais e PolÃticas/Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and a postgraduade degree in Marketing from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. |
![]() |
Mr Kaspar Howald, Director, Valposchiavo Tourism from the Best Tourism Village of Valposchiavo (Switzerland). Kaspar Howald came to tourism as a career changer. Originally, he studied classical philology and philosophy at the University of Zurich. After completing his doctorate, he moved to Rome, where he managed the cultural programmes of the Goethe-Institut, the German cultural mediator abroad, for three years. It was only when he took over as director of Valposchiavo Turismo in 2014 that he began to deal with tourism in depth. One of his most important achievements is the implementation of the award-winning 100% Valposchiavo initiative. |
![]() |
Ms KIM Boseul, Official, International Affairs, Islands Culture Diversity Network representing the Best Tourism Village of Purple Island (Republic of Korea) Kim Boseul is currently the public official in charge of international affairs at Islands Culture Diversity Network, located in the Republic of Korea. At the same time, she is an academic researcher of geography discipline. In Shinan, to which The Purple Island, one of the Best Tourism Villages by UNWTO belongs, she is taking the initiative of drafting an islands' worldwide manifesto in an effort to form a collective voice that speaks about island ideas and cultures. As a geography researcher, she is interested in translocalism, which point to an individual’s ability to experience social relations that are located in distant places. To her, this is one of the lenses to look at the future of rural development and to suggest the sustainability and multiculturalism in it. |
![]() |
Dr.Kazem Vafadari is Director of International Center for Asia Pacific Tourism (iCAPt); academic director of the Kunisaki city research center for world agriculture heritage, Oita, Japan and Professor, Graduate school of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) Tourism and Hospitality (THP) Beppu, Japan. He worked with United Nations University and Kanazawa University in Japan before joining APU in 2011. He is an expert on Sustainable Tourism and natural resource management and tourism applications of agriculture heritage landscapes. His research background also includes community building and 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. |
![]() | Sandra Carvão Moderator |
![]() | Kaspar Howald Panelist |
![]() | KIM Boseul Panelist |
![]() | Kazem Vafadari WelcomeRemarks |
![]() | Jafar Jafari Conclusion |