Campaigns for the next United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Secretary General (SG) are in full swing. Seven candidates are competing to lead the UNWTO: from Armenia – Mr. Vahan Martirosyan, from Brazil – Mr. Márcio Favilla, from Colombia – Mr. Jaime Alberto Cabal Sanclemente, from Georgia – Mr. Zurab Pololikashvili, from the Republic of Korea – Mrs. Young-shim Dho, from Seychelles – Mr. Alain St. Ange, and from Zimbabwe – Mr. Walter Mzembi.
秘书处收到了其他七份申请，但没有随附所需文件。 因此，申请将不会提交执行理事会第105届会议。
A nominee will be elected by the UNWTO Executive Council at its 105th session to be held on May 11-12, 2017 in Madrid, Spain, and will be recommended to the UNWTO General Assembly, which will take the final decision on the candidature for appointment to the post of Secretary General at its twenty-second session, to be held from September 4-9, 2017 in Chengdu, China. Thirty-four countries are members of the UNWTO Executive Council: Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Flanders, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Peru, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, Tunisia, and Zambia.
尽管大多数候选人都集中精力游说并与执行委员会成员取得联系，但塞舌尔前旅游部长阿兰·圣昂格却采取了不同的做法。 他认为，获得私营部门的认可将影响执行理事会国家投票支持他。 阿兰始终是一位讨人喜欢且受欢迎的部长，易于接近和沟通。
The candidates for the post of Secretary General of the UNWTO have all followed different paths in their campaign for the top job in tourism, but all seven candidates have been appealing to the 34 voting countries for a vote. Courtesy visits to countries are being made to woo them for a vote followed by breakfast, lunch, or dinner meetings and endorsement cocktails at tourism trade fairs. This all involves money and lots of it, and this is where the country’s support of their candidates is very apparent.
St.Ange is the mid-ocean islands of Seychelles’ candidate for SG of the UNWTO. He has opened his doors to the press and was on Quest Means Business with Richard Quest on CNN and also with Adam Boulton on Sky TV and BBC Radio Africa over and above a number of full-color magazines such as FIRST of the UK and many in Africa and the Middle East. As St.Ange appealed to ministers of tourism for their votes, he also appealed to the tourism trade to help his bid.
“Whoever is elected as the new SG of the UNWTO will impact your industry. You need someone who will hears you, one who will be a facilitator to your country and their tourism minister; you need someone who will be a leader and yet a friend, so help me out,” St.Ange said to the tourism trade right across the world.
这次电话招来了很多人的认可信。 此次电话会议还得到了诸如残疾人，LGBT，妇女组织，族裔团体，商会甚至狮子会等游说团体的支持，呼吁支持塞舌尔的圣昂热作为他们的首选候选人。 旅行和旅游业的新闻以及许多岛屿国家的政客也纷纷出现。
Alain St.Ange, who reacts to each and every Letter of Endorsement, says it is always better to let those who have worked with him speak up for him. “Saying you are good is one thing, this is you blowing your own trumpet, but when those who know you speak up, it shows your belief in democracy and the decentralization of the UN body for tourism,” says St.Ange, who argues that it is not enough to depend on the few who sit in the electoral college of the UNWTO. “The world of tourism needs to be a ward of this coming election, because the new SG will impact tourism and its development for the next four years,” Alain St.Ange said.
塞舌尔候选人获得了旅游私营部门贸易和国际新闻界的许多认可信。 塞舌尔候选人还收到了塞舌尔总统丹尼·福雷以及塞舌尔群岛开国总统詹姆士·曼查姆爵士的认可书，他写了一封公开信，表示他支持塞舌尔圣昂热竞购联合国。他去世前一周。
Other letters came in from the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands Organization (Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, and Seychelles); the Africa Ports Association of Eastern and Southern Africa (PMAESA); the Tanzania Society of Travel Agents (TASOTA); the Seychelles Hospitality and Tourism Association (SHTA); Fred W. Finn, the World’s Most Travelled Person Guinness World Records; the Seychelles Hindu Kovil Sangam Association, India’s important N.R.I. Welfare Society; the Creole Travel Services of Seychelles; and the Association of Tourism Professionals of Mauritius (ATP); and Eden Island Seychelles.
Bea Broda, the known Producer/Writer/Host/Speaker from the Americas, wrote: “One candidate that stands out to me is Alain St.Ange, the former Minister of Tourism of Seychelles. In the seven years that I have been familiar with his work, I have witnessed the extraordinary dedication, enthusiasm, and visionary brilliance that resulted in his enormous success in this role. St.Ange took a relatively small island nation in the middle of the Indian Ocean and created a way to bring Seychelles to the forefront of global attention with the enactment of the Carnaval International de Victoria. This international event experienced six years of success, not only bringing interest and tourism to the nation, but proudly unifying all of the people who live there towards a common goal. In addition, St.Ange was a founder of the Vanilla Islands of the Indian Ocean, a consortium designed to combine the strengths of the islands located in the Indian Ocean to present a strong front in a competitive market. He has worked ceaselessly in the direction of the absolute success of those issues to which he cheerfully commits his time, and I would personally like to see someone with his considerable vision, dedication, and creativity take the helm of an organization as influential to tourism as UNWTO.”
著名的旅行作家特蕾莎·圣约翰（Theresa St.John）说：“我很少有机会与对旅行，旅游业及其背后的人们如此热情洋溢的人互动。” 荣誉勋章也得到了圣天使的认可。 泽维尔·吕克·杜瓦尔（Xavier-Luc Duval），毛里求斯前副总理，曾负责旅游业，曾任印度洋香草群岛总统，现任毛里求斯反对党领袖； 塞舌尔工商会； 法国GIHP研发副总裁吉尔伯特·拉莫里（Gilbert Lamory）； 旅行之王约翰尼·罗格格（Johnny Rohregger）； 塞舌尔候选人的前政治同事哈迪·卢卡斯（Hardy Lucas）。
Germany’s Thomas Cook Group Airlines Condor Flugdienst GmbH, a leading European Leisure Airlines Group said, “Alain St.Ange is in the top league by global comparison, and we wish him all the best for his candidacy for the UNWTO,” and Wolfgang H. Thome of the Aviation, Tourism & Conservation News from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands, wrote, “St.Ange is My Man for the UNWTO Top Job.” Maxime Behar, the President of the ICCO, the largest public relations community in the world, being in 48 countries, said, “I know Alain St.Ange as a perfect professional who understands every single small detail in the tourism business, but also has a wide vision on the whole world and knows how to make this business much more efficient and result oriented.” On his part, Peter Sinon, former Seychelles Ambassador & Minister and former Executive Director of the African Development Bank for Africa’s Eastern Constituency said, “I wholeheartedly endorse Alain St.Ange for the post of Secretary General of the UNWTO,” and the AIOM, the Association of Inbound Operators (Mauritius) has also now endorsed him.
One journalist who writes daily on tourism and aviation in East Africa is Wolfgang H. Thome, and he also came out to say the St.Ange was his man for the UNWTO. Wolfgang Thome wrote: “Alain St.Ange and I knew of each other way before we met for the first time, notably in Kampala, where he had come to attend a tourism and trade conference for Eastern Africa and COMESA.
“从那时起，他被任命为塞舌尔旅游局（STB）的旅游营销总监–当时由一个受够了'老一辈'的私人提出，后来他迅速崛起，成为塞舌尔旅游局的首席执行官STB –我们一直保持着联系。
“ Alain重视建议和经验，并被证明是一个没有在所有事实都被掌握和知道之前就从臀部开枪的人，即使如此，他还是选择了说服力并说服其他人朝着正确的方向前进，而不是急于轻率地发表言论和采取行动。 。 塞舌尔旅游业的命运在他在STB时不断上升，嘉年华狂欢节（又名维多利亚国际狂欢节）于2011年启动，这一大师之举前所未有地将群岛推向了全球媒体，并于一年后产生在阿兰被任命为旅游和文化部长。
“我们的关系蓬勃发展，不是我要指出的实质，而是通过允许更多的专业交流和互动，塞舌尔的市场营销大佬找到了新的冠军。 St.Ange迅速地与全球航空业进行接触，将非洲之路带到维多利亚，并成为世界各地旅游活动的抢手主讲人，他们想知道他成功的秘诀以及塞舌尔如何一如既往地表现出他们的成功。重量，因为这些岛屿只有90,000万居民。 圣昂格也成为塞舌尔旅游投资者和利益相关者的拥护者，表明他相信塞舌尔需要收回其行业并开始提供反映克里奥尔人的传统和文化的独特产品，并将这些成分倒入酒店业的大熔炉中。行业。
“他是工业培训的坚定支持者，他大力支持塞舌尔旅游学院（STA），今天这是对其他国家的案例研究，合作与创新如何使STA成为印度洋旅游和款待培训的领先机构。 当前正在进行三阶段扩展的第二阶段的最后阶段，St.Ange可以为加入私营部门并支持热衷于从事该行业的年轻塞舌尔人的职业和第三级培训而感到自豪。
“Arrivals grew and grew some more with some phenomenal results in recent years, when visitor arrivals set new records from 2009 onwards, now in excess of 300,000 tourists per annum. January this year saw a rise of 34 percent more tourists streaming into the islands, to a large part attributed to a liberalized aviation regime which St.Ange influenced, adding frequencies, larger aircraft, and new airlines calling on Mahe’s international airport, while at the same time Air Seychelles prospered too with new passenger records year after year. When St.Ange a few weeks ago threw his hat in the ring as a candidate for the post of Secretary General of UNWTO, he first resigned so as not to use the resources of his government for his campaign, even though from the President of Seychelles.”
“From HE Danny Rollen Faure to the grassroot stakeholders in the industry and everyone in between, they have all endorsed him in glowing terms. Alain a few days ago came on invitation of the East Africa Tourism Platform (EATP) and of Uganda’s Minister for Tourism, Wildlife, and Antiquities. the Hon. Prof. Ephraim Kamuntu, to attend the annual Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo in Kampala. As a keynote speaker and guest of honor at the EATP launch of their ‘Destination East Africa’ web portal, he used the opportunity, as he did in the following panel discussions, the Ministerial Round Table and a series of one-on-one meetings with the East African movers and shakers in the tourism and aviation industry, to present his vision. His manifesto, submitted with his candidacy documents during FITUR at the UNWTO head offices in Madrid, speaks for itself, as it foresees a transformation of UNWTO into an organization for the entire tourism industry as it presents itself in the 21st century, democratizes it, and brings services to the member countries in the field rather than relying only on the functions of the UNWTO office in Spain. I was able to conduct an interview with Alain as the world was still in awe over his interviews at Sky News with Adam Boulton, with CNN’s Richard Quest, and then on the BBC Focus on Africa program, where he made a perfect case why he should be THE candidate for UNWTO’s top job.
“At that stage, something writers and journalists rarely do but which in my case was prompted by various developments, attributed to other candidates and a minute minority section of other travel media who broke protocol to start with by their partiality in reporting when they ditched journalistic principles of fairness and equality, I decided it is time that I too take a stand. Therefore, I now stand side by side with Alain St.Ange as I declare my support for his campaign and without inducements or promised favors, endorse him as my candidate for the upcoming UNWTO elections in May. And that is more than I can say about others who professed friendship when Alain held office and moved to greener pastures when, principled as he is, he resigned to run his own campaign without using his government’s hard-earned tourism revenues or neglecting his duty as a minister by being on the campaign trail for several months.”
塞舌尔印第安人协会的Ramu Pillay先生说：“我们与Alain St.Ange密切合作，共同创建了一个活动，即塞舌尔-印度日庆典活动，以纪念塞舌尔印第安人在发展塞舌尔方面发挥了作用。塞舌尔。 圣昂格部长是他的诺言，毫不害羞地回覆塞舌尔是一个尊重所有人是指导原则的国家。 部长在执行任务时一遍又一遍地说，在塞舌尔，您的肤色，宗教信仰，政治派别，任何形式的残疾以及您的性取向都不重要。一个需要社会尊重的人。 作为一个社区，阿兰·圣昂格部长在他的部长级办公室中总是受到我们的热烈欢迎，我们一直重视他在听取我们的要求和建议时所给予的尊重。 由于部长决心看到塞舌尔的每一个分支机构都使塞舌尔成为“文化熔炉”，不仅要得到承认，而且要给予他们应有的重视，因此在国家文化中心竖立了第一批到达塞舌尔的印度移民的历史墙。 我们看到他一年一度的维多利亚国际狂欢节把国际社会的各国带到以“所有人的朋友和无敌之友”为主题的“文化大熔炉”活动中。 部长Alain St.Ange是一位具有热情和敬业精神的旅游人士，我们塞舌尔印度共同体毫无保留地认可他为联合国世界旅游组织秘书长一职的候选人，我们呼吁每一个爱国塞舌尔人都会加入我们，祝圣昂热部长在11年2017月XNUMX日成功。”
塞舌尔印度教理事会的纳拉辛汉·拉马尼先生说：“塞舌尔印度教理事会感到自豪和荣幸地支持阿兰·圣昂热先生担任联合国秘书长的职位。联合国世界旅游组织。 Alain St.Ange先生热爱旅游，他出生在拉迪格岛（La Digue），该岛拥有世界上最美丽的海滩，这一点得到了许多旅行相关组织的认可。世界。 在塞舌尔旅游业中担任过各种职务后，他对旅游业的自豪感，事实和困难有深入的了解。 他发明了香草群岛的概念来促进印度洋地区的旅游业，维多利亚狂欢节，塞舌尔印度日和塞舌尔中国日，以在世界范围内推广塞舌尔，这是他担任旅游部长的里程碑。 此外，St.Ange先生是一个超越肤色，信条，语言，宗教和种族政治的人，他为将各种文化和国籍的人们聚集在一起的努力而受到赞赏。国家。 他作为旅游主题在全球各个平台上的主要发言人和主讲人，这证明了他是他所争夺的职位的最合适人选。 他当选后会带来骄傲不仅为塞舌尔，也为我们的印度洋地区，非洲大陆和整个第三世界国家。 我们，塞舌尔印度教理事会成员，全心全意地赞同阿兰·圣昂格先生的候选人资格。”
塞舌尔梅尔文·琼斯俱乐部和狮子俱乐部的主席K. Viveganandan博士说：“塞舌尔狮子俱乐部表示祝贺，我们岛屿上的一个儿子有勇气成为2017年XNUMX月曼联的可靠候选人联合国世界旅游组织选举。 塞舌尔很自豪地看到我们的名字与争夺联合国世界旅游组织秘书长职位的国家一并列出。 我们认识了我们前旅游，民航，港口和海事部长Alain St.Ange，也是塞舌尔狮子俱乐部的成员。 他为国家成功所做的奉献始终如此明显。 他到处走动，发表演讲时都看到了他对旅游业的热情，而旅游业的成功就是他热情的结果。 塞舌尔狮子俱乐部今天批准塞舌尔联合国世界旅游组织秘书长候选人阿兰·圣昂格，同时我们呼吁国际狮子俱乐部也加入我们，以认可这一称职的旅游专业人士。”
The Lions Club of Kiev in the Ukraine has followed the example of the Seychelles Lion’s Club and is calling on their members to push the Seychelles candidacy for the post of Secretary General of the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization). The Lion Club members of these two clubs are also calling on members of the Executive Council of the UNWTO they know to express their support for Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles candidate.
乌克兰基辅狮子俱乐部的这一举动对塞舌尔的圣昂格非常有趣，他看到越来越多的欧洲旅游机构为他提供支持。 吉尼斯世界纪录和格鲁吉亚国家旅游局大使尊敬的代表弗雷德·W·芬恩已经认可了弗朗特·W·芬恩。在德国柏林举行的ITB旅游贸易博览会上，圣昂格得到了莱拉·科斯捷夫斯卡的支持。马其顿政府旅游局的代表。
Macedonia said that one of the main reasons for their endorsement of the Seychelles candidate was his immense experience and positive attitude, which they believe is really important in maintaining the high profile and respect that UNWTO has achieved in recent years, not only in the tourism industry but across a broader spectrum that will pitch UNWTO to a new position that will help to unify the industry. The Macedonia representative also said that the tourism industry provides rewarding and important employment opportunities for women in developed and developing countries and that this helps to provide women with economic independence and empowerment and strengths their position in society. “As a woman myself, I am convinced that Mr. St.Ange will help the gentler sex and will drive initiatives that improve the position of women even further. I would be more than happy to assist him with this,” Lela Krstevska of Macedonia said.
On his part, Fred Finn, the World’s Most Travelled Person as per the Guinness World Records and the Ambassador Honorable Representative of Georgian National Tourism Administration, said in his endorsement that he had known Alain for 20 years or more from when he was in the hospitality industry in Seychelles, and that he had worked alongside this passionate man with vision. “I have been a follower of Alain’s career; his success is a tribute to his hard work. I have been delighted to write about him in OK Magazine, talked on TV shows, and in leading newspapers around the world to talk about Seychelles. Alain has inspired this love of Seychelles not only in me but so many around the world. I now list Seychelles, because of Alain’s interest in me all those years ago, as one on my favorite destinations in everything I write and talk about. I can think of no better person to become Secretary General of the UNWTO than this hardworking, dedicated, talented professional so that he may continue to succeed in his tourism visions on your much bigger stage,” said Fred Finn.
From Europe, CONDOR, the German Airline of Germany, has also echoed support for St.Ange of the Seychelles. Dr. Jens Boyd, the Commercial Director Long Haul for Thomas Cook Group Airlines Condor Flugdienst GmbH, came out with his support for the Seychelles candidate Alain St.Ange for the post of Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Dr. Jens Boyd of Thomas Cook Group Airlines Condor wrote: “As a leading European Leisure Airlines Group, we are happy to share our experience in working with former Minister Alain St.Ange of the Seychelles, with whom we were able to successfully grow tourism flows from Central Europe to his home country, and to the Indian Ocean Islands in general. Alain has built an efficient national tourism board organization, established several events to draw global attention, and rallied all local agencies and interest groups behind the objective of bringing more tourists to Seychellois shores. The best tourist leaders are working along the same lines, and this certainly puts him in the top league by global comparison. What has set him apart from even that crowd in our eyes is an all-encompassing view to tourism development that does not stop at his own shores. Alain was actively promoting trips across multiple Indian Ocean Island nations or combinations with mainland Africa, seeing the benefits that a bigger Indian Ocean tourism can bring to all islands. The Vanilla Islands initiative is a pinnacle achievement in that respect, and with the help of Alain and that initiative, we were also able to increase our capacity to Mauritius. Furthermore, as direct air access is and remains a critical part to developing tourism, Alain was an attentive listener and driver of a new national air services regime that allowed not only us, but also other carriers, to build new air connections to the Seychelles. His willingness and ability to identify the critical issues, to discuss them with the various private and political parties, and to find mutually agreeable solutions in a broader context have set him apart from most other tourism leaders we work with. Not least his personality and energy were a key building stone in this success.”
From Bulgaria, the ICCO President, Maxim Behar, on his part said that Alain St.Ange is the perfect candidate for Secretary General of UNWTO. ICCO, the largest public relations community in the world, having 48 countries from all continents with more than 3,000 firms, said: “I know Alain St.Ange as perfect professional who understands every single small detail in the tourism business, but also has a wide vision on the whole world and knows how to make this business much more efficient and result oriented. I fully agree with Alain that the tourism business must be much more united and to work for a better environment, and to emphasize on cultural heritage and specialized travels. But also, Alain is a great personality – he united not only businesses and countries, he united people and ideas, and this is one of his greatest advantages.”
Johnny Rohregger, the “King of Travel from Germany” as he is known in the tourism and travel world has also come out to endorse Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles candidate for the position of Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). In a letter, the King of Travel writes: “With pleasure I think on the Seychelles which are stuck on your name. You have been and still are the best representative of your country. Charming and positive, you invite the world to visit the islands of Seychelles. I will never forget the hearty welcome on Denis Island with the red flower carpet – no wind allowed to blow it away, and the friendly laughing faces off your staff who gave a real feeling of welcoming. You continue many more surprises, and I don’t get tired to recommend your Denis Island in my traveling to friends and ex-clients. King Johnny goes further to add, success and luck, we recommend you on our side.”
“Tourism for all” without discrimination was the message being pushed as GIHP, the important lobby group for the involvement of the physically handicapped of France who also threw their support behind Alain St.Ange for SG of the UNWTO. In the French city of Paris, Gilbert Lamory took time to address the press about discrimination in the world of tourism. Gilbert Lamory, the Vice President responsible for Development for GIHP (Groupement pour l’insertion des personnes Handicapees Physiques) of France said that a lot could still be done to respect those who are physically handicapped. Gilbert Lamory on behalf of the GIHP presented Alain St.Ange with a letter of endorsement, and also copies of the GIHP’s worldwide coordinated call for support for St.Ange. Mr. Lamory, who has been a for a number of years the advisor and instructor at the Federation National des Offices du Tourisme et Syndicats d’Initiative to push forward the plight of the handicapped, spoke with emotion to the press present at the presentation of the GIHP letter of endorsement to St.Ange. “There is still a lot to do in many countries for the handicapped persons to travel freely,” he said, before adding that in 2017 the handicapped population of the world had the opportunity to help get someone elected to the post of Secretary General of the UNWTO who was particularly concerned of the concept of tourism for all. “In effect, the election of the new Secretary General of the UNWTO that will be taking place in May will have amongst the candidates Alain St.Ange, who is clearly concerned by the facilities available for those falling in the grouping of handicapped travelers,” Gilbert Lamory said.
“Memo Planet” the French company promoting international tourism, also wrote to say that they were standing behind Seychelles candidate St.Ange for Secretary General of the UNWTO. “We have known Alain St.Ange as Minister responsible for Tourism, Civil Aviation, Ports and Marine, and even before that when he only had the Tourism and Culture portfolios, and admired his passion for tourism. This is why, as a known tourism professional video company, we are writing to publicly endorse him as the candidate for Secretary General for the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). Mr. St.Ange could never understand NO, and always wanted to find solutions. He believed in working beyond borders and coined many tag lines to attach the lndian Ocean Islands together and also these lovely islands with mainland Africa. We know, and many of my professional photographers share our views, that Alain St.Ange is so well suited for the United Nations position, which is why we are today endorsing him from the ‘tourism at large’ community,” said Remi Voluer of My Lovely Planet.
The Lion’s Club of Kiev of Ukraine also came out. “On behalf of Kyiv Lions Club, it is my pleasure to endorse Alain St.Ange, former Minister of Tourism, Ports, Airports and Culture of Seychelles, for the position of Secretary General of UNWTO. Kyiv Lions Club is indebted to Alain St.Ange for his friendship to Ukraine, and to Kyiv Lions Club in particular, as with his involvement, Seychelles tourism has provided an invaluable contribution to our fundraising activities. His involvement has helped us raise money for many worthy causes, while at the same time bringing Seychelles to the notice of many in Ukraine. Those who have traveled to Seychelles have all come back full of praise for the tourism wonder that Alain St.Ange has built in Seychelles.
“His proven track record of uniting tourism, cultural understanding, and business with worthy causes shows a man of repute and sincerity, a person fit and proper to serve as Secretary General of UNWTO. On behalf of Kyiv Lions Club, I wish Alain St.Ange luck and look forward to welcoming him in Kyiv in his new role,” said Karen-Marie Kragelund, Kyiv Lions Club President in the Ukraine.
The Seychelles candidate has amassed a long list of endorsements from Africa, Asia, Europe, and from the rest of the world. “I prefer to let the world of tourism say what they think of me instead of me telling the world what I have done. The world at large knows that I have been a hands-on minister of tourism and delivered for this industry. It was not talk but action by a leader who remained a friend of the industry pushing for tourism for all without discrimination,” said Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles candidate for SG of the UNWTO.
