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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. |
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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. |
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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 Division Head, 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 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 |
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Sandra Carvão
Kazem Vafadari
Future webinars
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Past webinars
Sep, 2021
Volume 29
WOMEN IN TOURISM EXPLORING CHALLENGES AND EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES / / Women contribute 54% of the tourism workforce internationally. Despite this, however, they still face challenges in terms of bridging gender-based wage gaps, breaking gender stere...
Jan, 2022
Volume 35
Glocalization of the Tourism Industry / / The tourism industry of today is shaped by Anglo-Western world, a trend which has suppressed the distinctiveness of local peoples and destinations. The host cultures, languages, and practices are often silen...
Mar, 2022
Satellite V 11
International and local Perspectives on Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)Tourism, Rural Revitalization and Sustainable Resource Management / / This webinar brings together international and local stakeholders to discuss the co...




