UNWTO Executive Council Election Result

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The Executive Council of the World Tourism Organization re-elected Zurab Pololikashvili from Georgia..

The Executive Council of the World Tourism Organization today re-elected Zurab Pololikashvili from Georgia for a second term as Secretary-General.

With a lot of manipulation, he had 25 votes. HE Shaika Mai Bint Mohammed Al-Khalifa from Bahrain had 8 countries voting for her.

The election has to be confirmed by the UNWTO General Assembly planned for October in Morocco.

Zurab made it difficult for candidates to compete and insistent on an in-person election mostly by proxy during COVID-19 lockdowns.

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Juergen T Steinmetz

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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