IIPT India In association with the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and ITB Berlin is conducting the first Global Peace Awards for Empowered Women in Tourism with the title “Celebrating Her.

The event will be held on Friday, 11 Mar at ITB Berlin, Room New York 3, Hall 7.1a from 16:15 to 17:00. All are welcome.

H.E. Alain St. Ange, Minister for Tourism and Culture, Government of Seychelles will be the Guest of Honour and Dr. Taleb Rifai, Secretary General of UNWTO will present the Awards. Ms. Anita Mendiratta – member Advisory Council IIPT India, will moderate the Awards Ceremony.

The IIPT India Global Awards, “Celebrating Her” are intended to acknowledge and celebrate exceptional women in the fields of travel, tourism and hospitality; individuals with a clarity of vision and mission who appreciate and believe that tourism, perhaps the biggest industry in the world, could become the first global peace industry and who have consistently worked towards fostering the tourism as a vehicle for peace.

The process of the Awards has been styled on the basis of the UNWTO’s mechanism of scouting for achievers across diverse activities who have in their unique way created innovative products and services that can be considered exemplary towards helping others whilst setting up and managing a business professionally and in line with the best international practices.

“Individuals who have demonstrated strong personal values and determination to make the difference are worthy of recognition and reward. They also need to be celebrated as role models for the younger generation to follow,” said Ajay Prakash, President of IIPT India

IIPT Founder and President, Louis D’Amore stated, “IIPT has been a believer and supporter of women empowerment since its founding in 1986 featuring models of empowered women leadership at each of our international summits and conferences beginning with H.E. Vigdis Finnbogadottir, then President of Iceland and the world’s first elected women Head of State, as Patron of the IIPT First Global Conference; featuring empowered women including Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai as keynote speakers; models of empowered women in concurrent sessions, particularly in the areas of community tourism and poverty reduction. IIPT is particularly proud of IIPT India’s initiative in presenting the First Global Peace Awards for Empowered Women in Tourism and is grateful for the support of ITB Berlin and the UN World Tourism Organization.”

The IIPT India awards “Celebrating Her” 2016 in partnership with ITB Berlin, UNWTO, WTTC, PATA, SKAL International, ICTP and MITM focus on women achievers across the Globe.