Tourism's Potential as a
Sustainable Development Strategy
October
18-20, 2004,
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Monday, 18 October, 2004
5:00
PM Registration and Orientation for Speakers,
Panel Chairs, Facilitators and Recorders Arts Club of Washington 2107
I Street, NW
6:00
Registration of Participants
7:00
Reception: Arts Club of Washington, Sponsored by GW School of
Business
Welcome
Prabir Bagchi, Senior
Associate Dean, GW School of Business
Evening available for networking and private
meetings
Tuesday, 19 October, 2004
8.00
- 9.00 Registration of Participants Lisner
Auditorium, 730 21st Street, NW
9.00
Official Opening Lisner Auditorium
Master of Ceremonies
André Vallerand, Tourism Montreal, Chairman, WTO Committee of
Affiliate Members
Tourism
and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Enrique Iglesias, President, Inter-American Development Bank,
Washington, DC, USA
The World Bank's Tourism Development Strategy
James Adams, Vice President, Operations Policy and Country
Services, World Bank Group,
Washington, DC, USA
Tourism Policies and Strategies and their Potential to Achieve Millennium
Development Goals
Francesco Frangialli, WTO Secretary-General, Madrid, Spain
10:10 -10:30 Refreshment Break: Host GW International Institute of
Tourism Studies
10:30 - 12:00 Development Assistance for Recipient Countries:
Tourism Ministry Perspectives
Moderator: Francesco Frangialli, WTO Secretary-General, Madrid,
Spain
- Marthinus Van Schalkwyk, Minister of
Environmental Affairs and Tourism, South Africa
- Sultan Abu-Jaber, Secretary General, Ministry of
Tourism and Antiquities, Jordan
- Lucía Salazar de Robelo,
Minister of Tourism, Nicaragua
- Thierry de Pierrefeu, Minister of Tourism,
Honduras
- Lebohany Ntsinyi, Minister of Tourism, Lesotho
- Juli
Minoves, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andorra
Discussion
Topics
- Summary of Experiences (types of projects, funding sources)
- Lessons Learned
- Exemplary projects (keys to
success, results achieved)
- Future directions (strategic goals, priorities)
- How the WTO can help in achieving development
assistance goals
12:00-12:30 United States Agency for International Development's
(USAID) Tourism Project Portfolio and Strategic Goals
Introduction by Ambassador Edward Gnehm, Elliott School for
International Affairs, The George Washington University
Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), Washington, DC, USA
12:30-1:30 Lunch: Sponsored
by Puerto Rico Tourism Company Continental
Ballroom, Marvin Center, 800 21st Street, NW
Remarks by Puerto Rico Tourism Company, Angela
Comas Rodon, Puerto Rico
1:45-2:00 Signing
Ceremony: DANTEI Memorandum of Understanding Between the WTO and
GWU Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st Street,
NW
- Franceso
Frangialli, Secretary-General WTO
- Donald
Lehman, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, The
George Washington University
- Development Assistance Network for Tourism
Enhancement and Investment (DANTEI) Demonstration, Sheryl Elliott, The
George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
2:00-2:40 WTO Tourism Policies and Strategies
for Development Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st Street,
NW
Moderator: Donald
E. Hawkins, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
- WTO
Operations and Capacities, Eduardo Fayos-Sola, WTO, Madrid,
Spain
- WTO Liberalized Trade and
Sustainable Tourism-Elimination of Poverty (ST-EP)
Initiatives, Geoffrey Lipman, WTO, Brussels, Belgium
2:40 - 4:00 Tourism as a Sustainable Development Tool: Donor
Perspectives
Moderator: Antonio Vives, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington,
D.C.
- Young-Shim
Dho, Chariperson, Korea Culture and Tourism Policy Institute,
Seoul, Korea
- Richard Scobey, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA
- Paul
McGinnis, Canadian International Development Agency, Quebec,
Canada
- Martin
Tampe, German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Eschborn, Germany
- Dan
Martin, Critical Ecosystem Parnership Fund (CEPF),
Washington, DC, USA
4:00-4:20 Refreshment Break: Host-GW Center for the
Study of Globalization
4:20-5:45 Furthering
Tourism as a Means for Sustainable Development: Toward
a WTO
Knowledge Management
Approach
Moderator:
David Airey, WTO Secretariat Representative, University of Surrey,
UK
- WTO Knowledge Management Research Agenda, Chris
Cooper, University of Queensland, Australia
- WTO TedQual Volunteer Initiatives, Brad Weiss,
WTO, Madrid, Spain
- WTO Education Council eLearning Strategy, François
Bédard, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
- The WTO Indicators Program: Risk Management and Reality Check for
Developing Sustainable Tourism Destinations, Ted Manning, WTO Sustainable Development of Tourism
Department, Madrid, Spain
5:45-6:00 Building Consensus for Sustainable Tourism Development: Survey Results
Shaun Mann, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
Evening available for networking and private
meetings
Wednesday, 20 October, 2004
8:00 to 8:30
Distribution of Highlights (October 18 and 19 sessions) 3rd Floor Lobby, Marvin Center, 800 21st Street, NW
Refreshment Breaks:
Host-Counterpart International
AM Concurrent
Working Group Sessions (Groups A-D)
Refreshment
Breaks: Host - Counterpart International
8:30 - 10:00 Part 1:
Project Case Study Presentations
A. Strategic Assessment, Planning and Implementation - Room
302, Marvin Center
Chair: Felix Jiménez, Tourism Minister, Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic
Facilitator: Trevor
Sofield, University of Tasmania, Australia
Rapporteur: Brent Ritchie, University of Calgary
Case Presentations:
- Jordan National
Tourism Strategy, Ibrahim Osta,
Chemonics International Inc. Washington,
DC USA
- National and
Regional Ecotourism Strategy and Action Plan in Bulgaria
Alicia Grimes, USAID EGAT/NRM and Kamelia
Georgieva, ARD/BCEG Project
- Tourism
Master Plan for Istria (Croatia), Adrian Pryce, THR International Tourism Consultants, Barcelona, Spain
- Tourism Development
Approach in Bahia, Brazil, Erico Mendonça, PRODETUR
Bahia, Brazil
- Ecuador's National
Ecotourism Strategy, Stephen Edwards, Andes Center for Biodiversity
Conservation, Quito, Ecuador
- Strategic Poverty Related
Tourism Issues in the Asia Pacific Region, Walter
Jamieson, UN ESCAP and School of Travel Industry Management,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
B. Decentralized
Governance and Community Capacity Building - Room 307, Marvin
Center
Chair: Gilles Béville,
DGCID/MAE, Paris, France
Facilitator: Sylvie Blangy, University of Montpellier, France
Rapporteur: Juan Carlos Paredes,
School of Tourism and Hotel Management, Universidad de San Martin
de Porres, Lima, Peru
Case Presentations:
- Community Based
Corporate Responsibility in Sub Sahara Africa, Les Carlisle, Conservation Corporation Africa,
Johannesburg, South Africa
- Burkina
Faso, TDS, Host
Village Network in
West Africa, Claude Hannoun, Tourisme & Développement Solidaires, Paris, France
- Coral Gardens
in the Pacific Islands Case, Lelei LeLaulu,
Counterpart International, Washington, DC, USA
- Community Based
Approaches in West Africa, Jean Michel Pavy, World
Bank, Washington, DC, USAl
- Living in a Finite
Environment (LIFE) Program, Namibia, Brian Jones, USAID,
Windhoek, Namibia
- Community-Based
Tourism in Southern Africa,
Anna Spenceley, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
C. SME
Business Development and Competiveness - Room 310, Marvin
Center
Chair: Pilar Méndez, AECI,
Madrid, Spain
Facilitator: Terry De Lacy, CEO, CRC, Australia
Rapporteur: Bill Mansfield, UNEP,
Washington, DC USA
Case Presentations:
- Competitiveness
Clusters: Eastern Europe, Central America, and Asia, Scott Wayne, SW &
Associates, Washington, DC, USA
- Voluntary Industry
Initiatives in Jamaica, Howard Batson, USAID/Jamaica
and Hugh Cresser, The EAST Program, Jamaica
- Small Tourism
Enterprise Program, George
Vincent, Organization of
American States, Washington, DC, USA
- Green Globe 21
Certification in the Caribbean, Diedre Shurland,
Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST), San Juan,
Puerto Rico
- FODESTUR
project, Karola Tippman,
FODESTUR GTZ, Managua, Nicaragua
- Ecolodge Development
Models, Megan Epler Wood, Epler Wood International, Burlington, Vermont, USA
D. Natural Resource
and Protected Area Management - Room
308, Marvin Center
Chair: Melinda Kimble,
UN Foundation, Washington, DC, USA
Facilitator: Haiyan Song, Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong, China
Rapporteur: Lou
D'Amore, International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT),
Stowe, Vermont USA
Case Presentations:
- Ecotourism Business
Alliances: Indonesia, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, Brett Jenks, Rare, Arlington, Virginia, USA
- Meso-American Barrier
Reef Program, Noel Jacobs, MBRS -
World Bank Project, Belize City, Belize
- Ecotourism
and Conflict in Parque Nacional Carrasco, Marcelo Arze, Conservation International-Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia
- Red Sea Tourism:
Focusing on Common Goals, Patrick Papania, GreenCOM, Egypt
- Ecotourism in the
Congo Basin-the Gabon Initiative, John Gwynne, Wildlife Conservation Society, New
York, USA
10:00 - 11:30 Part 2: Working Group Discussions
(Working Group will Focus on
Lessons Learned and Strategic Recommendations)
11:30-1:00
Grand
Ballroom, Marvin Center
Working lunch sponsored by DestiNations--World Tourism Forum for
Peace and Sustainable Development: Remarks by Doug Adair
Morning Working Group Reports
Moderator: Olivia Jenkins TTF, Australia Representing the
WTO Business Council
PM Concurrent
Working Group Sessions (Groups E-H)
1:00 - 2:30 Part 1:
Project Case Study Presentations
Case Presentations:
- Uniting
Culture, Nature, Preservation, and Economics: Geotourism
MapGuides, Jonathan Tourtellot, National Geographic
Society, Washington, DC, USA
- World
Heritage Site Impact Mitigation:
The case of Machu Picchu, Art
Pedersen, World Heritage
Center, UNESCO, Paris, France
- The
Sahara of Cultures and People: the Roads of the Ksour, Laure Veirier, UNESCO, Paris, France
- Tourism-based Revenue
Generation for Cultural and Natural Heritage, Andrew Drumm, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA, USA
- Archaeology,
Forest Gardens and Tourism in Guatemala, Raymond Chavez, Counterpart International,
Washington, DC, USA and
Tatiana Ramos, TDI Corporation, Washington, DC, USA
F. Marketing Sustainable Tourism Product - Room
307, Marvin Center
Chair: María Evangelista
Troche de Gallegos, Minister of Tourism, Paraguay
Facilitator: François
Bédard, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada
Rapporteur: Darko Prebezac, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Case Presentations:
- Scientific, Academic,
Volunteer and Educational Travel (SAVE) Model, Kenia Lima de Zapata and Vince Murphy, Honduras
Institute for Tourism, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Grupo
Futuropa, Hendrick Wintjen, GTZ, San Jose, Costa Rica
- Tour Operators
Initiative, Ocean
Conservation and Tourism Alliance, Sarah
Raposa, CELB, Conservation International, Washington, DC, USA
- Sustainable Tourism
Fairs in Europe, Birgit Steck, TFI/Reise Pavillon Fair, Hannover, Germany
and Sylvie Blangy, University of Montepellier, France
- Open Africa, Noel N de Villiers, Cape Town, South Africa
- A
Post-UNCTAD
XI Initiative: E-tourism for All, Jean-Francois Baylocq and Sabrina Ielmoli, UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland
Case Presentations:
- SNV Laos Case Study, Pieter Stoer, SNV, Laos
- Tourism for Rural
Poverty Alleviation Programme (TRPAP), Rabi Jung Pandey,
TRPAP, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Pro Poor
Approaches-Gambia, Harold Goodwin,
Responsible Tourism, Faversham, UK
- Moroccan Rural Tourism
Strategy, Hassan Kacimi, Secretary-General, Morrocan
Ministry of Tourism, Rabat, Morocco
- South East Europe Cross-border Tourism
Initiatives, Mira Mileva and Jennifer McGuinn, Regional Environmental Center for Central and
Eastern Europe, Szentendre, Hungary
H. Financial Instruments
and Enabling Environments - Room
308, Marvin Center
Chair: Ousmane N'Diaye,
Minister of Tourism and Air Transport, Dakar, Senegal
Facilitator: Peter
Burns, University of Brighton, UK
Rapporteur: Kaddu Sebunya, Conservation International, Madagascar
Case Presentations:
- Inter-American
Development Bank Experience with Tourism, Asuncion
Aguilá, Inter-American
Development Bank, Washington, DC USA
- SEATIP Project in
Mozambique, Tom Milton,
International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC, USA
- Travel Philanthropy
Initiatives, Martha Honey, The International Ecotourism
Society, Washington, DC, USA
- Africa Selected Cases: Iain Christie, Consultant, World Bank Group,
Washington, DC USA
- Financing
Peruvian Ecotourism Operator, Jennifer Morris, Verde Ventures, Conservation International, Washington,
DC, USA and Eduardo Nycander, Rainforest Expeditions, Lima, Peru
- South
Africa, Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa (FTTSA),
Certification, Jennifer Seif, FTTSA, Pretoria, South
Africa
2:30 -
4:00 Part 2:
Working Group
Discussions
(Working Group will Focus on
Lessons Learned and Strategic Recommendations)
4:00
- 6:00 Final Plenary
Session - Grand
Ballroom, Marvin Center
Moderator: Donald E. Hawkins, The George Washington
University
Toward a Global Network of Bilateral Donors
- Roberta Hilbruner USAID, Washington, DC
USA
- Emmanuela Benini, DGCS/MAE,
Rome Italy
- Pilar
Méndez, AECI, Madrid, SpainA
- Gilles Béville, DGCID/MAE,
Paris, France
- Pieter
Stoer, SNV, The Hague, Netherlands
- Martin Tampe,
GTZ, Eschborn, Germany
Afternoon Working Group Reports
Conclusions:
Geoffrey Lipman, WTO, Madrid, Spain
Forum Statement: Pauline Sheldon, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
6:00 Reception - Grand
Ballroom and Terrace, Marvin Center
Sponsored by THR International Tourism Consultants
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