Hello, everyone,
 Bonjour, distinguished audience,
 Dear friends,
  Let me first thank you for your kind invitation and warm welcome. The forum is a great success. And on behalf of my President, Phillip Franso and all the members, I wish the best to this new-born International Alliance.
  The World Association that I represent here has a long history. Let me, just a few words about myself. Because what I’d like emphasize is the fact that we work as a volunteer in this Association. So that is very important for me to highlight this because I have another activity, a professional activity of course, I would be delighted to talk to you about that later on.
  What I would like to say about the Association that I represent is that it has a long history. I would share with you some tips today faithfully. Don’t worry. And what I would like
to highlight is the fact that I represent this Association as Vice President. And I am here to share with you about this experience.
  The first fact that I would like to highlight as you can see here on that slide, is the important variety of actors involved in the Association. And that is, for us, a very crucial point. We have professionals. We have entrepreneurs involved. We have people from institutions, from education. So we have a wide variety of different people in our organization.
  And the second point that I’d like to highlight is the fact that we are here. We are involved in the Association with the same values. We have the same values and we work hard to develop and to implement these values. As I mentioned, we are volunteers and we are not paid for that. And this is important to notice because we believe in our values. Here are some members. Among them, a wide variety of different actors, of course. We have Board members of course are very important one. I don’t know if you have heard about Franscis Auto Schools that we are competitors. We are competitors in everyday business. And when we are attending our event, we work hard together in order to improve and to implement values, and to such a consensus as well to improve the role of human beings in their tourism sector. We want human beings to be at the center of all activities and operations. Our Association is well structured. With our internet platform we can interact with anyone from the network. So this is really important. And we’d like to highlight in the name of our non-existed Chairman, Fransceco Frangialli.
  I want to emphasize that much we have very particular, of course, membership fees. As an Association, we only have fees as a kind of reward. People and members make money in this Association and they only pay fees to the President and of course the organization. We are really well-structured as I mentioned. You need to work with people you want to work with. It is so much easier to be friends. And this is very important for me to highlight this. Again, we work in a very friendly atmosphere. We are competitors as I mentioned. But inside and within the forum, we live very well together. We think and we want to develop the future of tourism. So we have some delegates from each country. We have one Chinese delegate here. It’s an very important actor from the online education with many students. So, my advice here is that we need to attend conferences. Of course, we are really busy, but we will do slow business to make sustainable money. That’s my point. If you attend a conference, if you meet new people, you have new friends, new strong friends, new important relationships. And then you can do a sustainable business and implement it all over the world.
  You will find all this on the website of the platform. I would like to highlight the fact that we are volunteers once more. We have only one general delegate who has a contract. Of course, what is important is to work because we are an international association. We are all quite diverse. We come from various countries. We have various backgrounds, various ways of doing things, thinking. So this is important to meet in order to strengthen the links. What I would like to highlight, here is the fact that with this long history, we have been in a process of being now recognized. And these are the 15 good reason to join us. We have been recognized, last week, as an official NGO from the United Nations with consultative status. So this is a brand new era for our Association. And it has been a long, long process that hopefully it is really now successful. You know, AMFORHT is an acronym. I just mentioned the next event would take place.
  We have a national conference in each country. So the next event will take place in November in Canada. This is our annual forum. And then we will have a national conference in Costa Rica. And in January we will have a national conference in Moscow, Russia. Of course, we will celebrate our new NGO status.

  What is important for me to notice at that stage is that foreign association. It is really important to have got good fathers and good mothers. And it is important to have strong parents and international relatives and sister associations. From an international point of view, this is very, very relevant. In that sense, we are really optimistic for this new IMTA. On behalf of the all the members, we would be really delighted to help you in many other ways. You know, in France, my Association is called AMFORHT. It’s an acronym, of course, for World Association for Tourism and Education and Training. But in France, AMFORHT means a word which is a strong soul for us. We hope you to join us in order to become yourself as well, a strong soul.
  Thank you.