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STH’s Gifty Koufie excels at the 2020/21 World Tourism Forum The 2021 World Tourism Forum Lucerne ended remarkably for Gifty Efua Koufie, a Ghanaian hotelier and alumni of the University of Johannesburg who recently participated at the Forum’s Innovation Festival in Adermatt, Switzerland.
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s Koufie clenched the top prize under the Diversity category of the Young Talent Programme; after delivering an upbeat pitch on the use of nutrition apps in the hospitality industry to combat obesity and non-communicable diseases. The World Tourism Forum Lucerne (WTFL) is the only global platform where leaders and decision-makers in government,
academia and the tourism and hospitality industry converge to address imminent challenges while exploring cutting-edge and disruptive ideas to propel the industry. Themed ‘Moving Forward’, this year’s event probed the future of tourism and hospitality in a post Covid-19 world, featuring a series of high-powered panel discussions and pitches in the first hybrid – virtual and physical – experience. The
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high-profile guest list included chief executive officers of leading hotel groups such as Puneet Chhatwal, chief executive officer of Taj Hotels, Resorts and Palaces; Martin Barth, chief executive officer of WTFL; Laura Meyer, chief executive officer of Hotelplan Group and Koen Deryckere, global industry lead at Accenture, just to mention a few. The programme also saw the participation of students, hoteliers and
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