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ABOUT

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Investment Forum (IF) is an open strategic high-level platform that focuses on investment attraction, promotion and facilitation to provide a set of practical measures concerned with improving the predictability of investment frameworks, streamlining and speeding up requirements related to foreign investors, and enhancing coordination and cooperation to promote investments among stakeholders, such as host and home country governments, foreign investors and domestic corporations, as well as innovators in the tourism sector.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The UNWTO Investment Forum is a high-level specialized event that gathers: Ministers of Tourism, and Economic Development, Traditional, Non-traditional Investors, Innovators, and Media partners to share best practices, case studies and insights, with a forward looking vision to attract, promote and facilitate sustainable investments for tourism development.

AGENDA

- Welcome Address: Natela Turnava Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia,

Zurab Pololikashvili Secretary-General UNWTO.

- Keynote presentation 1 : Innovation and Sustainability as the New Normal :

Natalia Bayona, Director Innovation, Digital Transformation and Investments (UNWTO)

Panel Discussion: Key insights from TourismSustainable Investments

• Nicola Villa, Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth Mastercard

• Arlette Soudan-Nonault, Minister of Tourism and Environment, Republic of Congo
• Irene Arias Hofman, CEO IDB Lab, Inter-American Development Bank Group
• Alzbeta Klein, Director and Global Head of Climate Business, International Financial Corporation.
• Pedro Rodriguez, President Sierra Blanca States
• Luis Rodriguez, Executive Director , Sierra Blanca States
• Pino Sagliocco, Chairman Live Nation España

- Session 1: Education and Technology

• Presentation: World Tourism Identification Card: "an opportunity to reopen safe the tourism sector" Antonio Santos del Valle, Wanderlust Passport S.L
• Presentation: How to recover tourism through rural development? Lisandro Menu-Marque, Corporative Director for Institutional Development, Globalia.

- Session 2 : Session II: Emerging trends in Georgia post-COVID era

Chair: Mark T. McCord, Chief of Party, USAID Economic Security Program

• Mariam Kvrivishvili, Head, Georgian National Tourism Administration

• Vakhtang Butskhrikidze, CEO, TBC Bank

• EBRD/ World Bank (TBC)

• Irakli Kilauridze, Managing Director, Colliers International Georgia