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The new members combine a wide range of profiles
with diverse backgrounds and types of business: 3 Destination Management
Organization (DMOs), 14 for-profit companies, 10 associations and NGOs, and 7
education and research institutes, and 5 others. In terms of geographical
distribution, the newly admitted members come from all the regions: 6 from
Africa, 10 from the Americas, 3 from Asia and the Pacific, 13 from Europe, and
7 from the Middle.
“The integration of these new leading entities
reflects our ongoing efforts to strengthen the Affiliate Membership and
create a diverse and inclusive network capable of significantly contributing to
the UN Tourism mission. We remain committed to enhancing Affiliate Members'
satisfaction and fostering a sense of belonging through effective, mutually
beneficial, win-win engagement in the Organization's key activities and
projects,” said UN Tourism Director of the Affiliate Members and Public-Private
Collaboration Department, Ion Vilcu.
Governments and National Tourism Administrations
are increasingly partnering with UN Tourism to promote Affiliate
Membership in their own countries to further invigorate their local tourism
sectors and to have their leading entities connected within the largest network
of its kind in tourism, which currently includes a total of 500 entities.
The 39 new Affiliate Members are:
·
Altezza
Travelling Limited (United Republic of Tanzania)
·
Amsa
Hospitality Company (Saudi Arabia)
·
Asociación
de Hoteles y Turismo de la República Dominicana, Inc. - ASONAHORES – (Dominican
Republic)
·
Asociación
del Deporte Español (Spain)
·
Banco de
Reservas de la República Dominicana (Dominican Republic)
·
Banco
Popular Dominicano, S.A. Banco Múltiple (Dominican Republic)
·
Batterjee
Medical College (Saudi Arabia)
·
Booking.com
B.V. (Netherlands)
·
Cámara de
Comercio de Medellín para Antioquia (Colombia)
·
Conseil
québécois des ressources humaines en tourisme-CQRHT (Canada)
·
Decanter
Enterprises (Zimbabwe)
·
Ethiopian
Tour Operators Association – ETOA (Ethiopia)
·
Federation
of Trade in Goods, Services and Tourism Rio de Janeiro –
FECOMÉRCIO-RJ (Brazil)
·
Focus
Brand, S.L. (Spain)
·
Forward
Data, S.L. (Spain)
·
Hoteliers
Association of Uzbekistan (Uzbekistan)
·
IFP Qatar
(Qatar)
·
Institute
of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism – IGCAT (Spain)
·
Instituto
Nacional de Formación Técnico Profesional – INFOTEP (Dominican Republic)
·
Instituto
Superior de Derecho y Economía, S.A. (Spain)
·
International
Tour Management Institute, Inc. (United States of America)
·
Ishraq
Hospitality (United Arab Emirates)
·
JLL
Americas Inc. (United States of America)
·
Jordan
Hotels Association (Jordan)
·
Jordan
Restaurant Association (Jordan)
·
Klook
Travel Technology Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)
·
MADCUP,
S.L. (Spain)
·
Namibia
University of Science and Technology (Namibia)
·
New
Perspective Media FZ LLC (United Arab Emirates)
·
Pakistan
Association of Tour Operators - PATO (Pakistan)
·
Palacio de
Ferias, Congresos y Exposiciones de Marbella S.L. (Spain)
·
PT
Indonesia WISE (Indonesia)
·
Radisson
Hospitality Belgium, B.V. (Belgium)
·
Rijeka
Tourist Board (Croatia)
·
Scientific
Research Institute for Tourism Development -TDI (Uzbekistan)
·
Viristar
LLC (United States of America)
·
Zagreb
School of Economics and Management (Croatia)
·
Zambia
Institute for Tourism & Hospitality Studies (Zambia)
·
Zambia
Tourism Agency (Zambia)
Under the current admission procedure, the
candidatures were submitted for consideration and approval of the Executive
Council after being previously reviewed and endorsed by the Committee on
Matters related to Affiliate Membership (CMAM), during its 5th meeting that
took place on 6 June. These candidatures are the results of the implementation
of the expansion strategy of the Affiliate Membership, aiming at improving the
quality and geographical balance of the Affiliates network.
The admission of these new members was endorsed
during the 121st Session of the Executive Council, which took place in
Barcelona, Spain, on June 10-11.
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