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Speakers

Organisation

Position

Session

Bruce Taylor

BBTonline, Brussels

Journalist & Marketing specialist

Pan-European cooperation

Caroline de Maisonneuve

Galeries Lafayette

Marketing & Promotions Manager Asia

China Outbound Travel

Dorosthy Teng

Gullivers Travel Associates

Coordination     Manager

Outbound Travel

Harold Goodwin

Responsible Travel Partnership

Director

China Inbound Travel

Ken Kelling

Visit London

Communications Director

Pan-European cooperation

Dr. Kevin Lin

KL Communications

Managing Director

Outbound Travel

Mark Eadie

ERM China

Director

Heritage, Sports & Tourism

Martine Ainsworth-Wells

Visit London

Marketing Director

Bilateral Tourism

Matt Thompson

COTTM

Project Director

Business Travel

Paul Kennedy

Reed Travel Exhibitions’ Meetings & Incentives events

Group Exhibition Director, EIBTM, GIBTM, AIME, LACIME & CIBTM

Business Travel

Peter M.K. Wong

MK Corporation

Chairman

Heritage, Sports & Tourism

Ray Hole

Rh architects

Managing Director

Heritage, Sports & Tourism

Rohit Talwar

Fast Future

Managing Director

China Inbound Travel

Rosita Yiu

Accor Hotels

Sales Director Europe Incoming Asia

Outbound Travel

Wahida Ashiq

93 ½ PR agency

Founder

China Inbound Travel

William Ong

Pearl Foundation

Founder

 New Technologies

Prof. Wolfgang Arlt

China Outbound Project

Project Leader

China Outbound Travel

Prof. Zhang Guangrui

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Director of Tourism Research Centre

China Outbound Travel

Zhang Qing

Byecity.com

General Manager

New Technologies

Zvonomir Bednarcik

Global Refund UK

Managing Director

China Outbound Travel

Professor Dr. Wolfgang Georg Arlt

Professor

University for Applied Sciences Stralsund, Germany

Born and raised in West Berlin. Studies in Sinology, Sociology, Political Sciences in Berlin, Taiwan, Hong Kong. MA in Sinology, Ph.D. in Political Sciences. Professional work as consultant and entrepreneur in European-Asian cooperation in Transportation, Tourism, Cultural Management and Intercultural Relations.

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Prof. Zhang Guangrui is the Director of Tourism Research Centre of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS TRC), Beijing, China. After some 10 years of working in the tourist industry, he joined CASS in 1981, since then he has been working as a full-time researcher of tourism. During 1984-1986, he stayed in the Department Management for Hotel, Catering and Tourism Industries of Surrey University, UK, as a visiting scholar.

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Paul Kennedy MBE is Group Exhibition Director of Reed Travel Exhibitions’ Meetings and Incentives Events.  He joined EIBTM in December 2004 after its successful relocation to Barcelona. 

 Paul is well known for his former role as Managing Director of the Commonwealth Conference & Events Centre, launched under Paul’s direction in 1993. 

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Matt Thompson has been appointed to build on the success of the first two events. Matt brings with him 14 years of experience with Reed Exhibitions (organiser of World Travel Market), where he held a number of senior management positions in their travel and tourism division.
   
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Zhang Qing
General manager of Beijing Byecity Technology Development Co., Ltd.

Zhang Qing, started his travel career in 1984 for about more than 20 years. He is Experienced in China travel and tourism field for different business sections with professional knowledge and practical experiences. He has full understandings and rich experiences to integrate both travel business and advanced information technology....

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Dr Harold Goodwin
Director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism

Harold drafted the Cape Town Declaration on Responsible Tourism in Destinations in 2002 which defined the agenda for change and has written extensively on responsible tourism and worked with UK companies and with governments in Bhutan, South Africa and The Gambia to develop and implement responsible tourism policies.

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Martine Ainsworth-Wells is Marketing Director at Visit London, where she heads up Marketing - a team of 16, developing and promoting London as a visitor destination worldwide and Media – a team of 15 responsible for Visit London’s 13 websites and digital applications.
   
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William Ong
Founder of The Pearl Foundation

William Ong is Singapore-born Chinese, 50 years of age.  William’s career has focussed on media and communications. This includes over 25 years experience in marketing and advertising. This experience has involved working for leading advertising agencies in Singapore, Asia Pacific, Switzerland and the UK. 
 
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Wahida is the founder of 93½ - a PR agency that specialises in building brand awareness of Chinese services and products in the West. Wahida has been a PR practitioner for over 12 years, in which time she has worked with the Tourist Board of New Zealand and the Trade and Investment of Ontario, Canada to put both on the map, amongst UK audiences, as tourist and business destinations, respectively.
 
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Dr Kevin Lin
KL Communications

Dr Kevin Lin has been the Lead Interpreter (Chinese) of the British Foreign Office for many years. He interprets for the Queen, Prime Ministers and cabinet ministers at their meetings with Chinese Presidents and Premiers. He has accompanied Tony Blair to China three times and also interprets for the Irish government.
 
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Peter M.K. Wong
M.K. Corporation Ltd.

Mr Peter M.K. Wong, BBS, JP., a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, a Deputy of the 8^th, 9^th and 10^th National People’s Congress and was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong Government, an awardee of the “Young Industrialist Award of Hong Kong”.

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Zvono has spent over ten years working with Global Refund in many European countries to raise awareness among non-EU visitors and tourists of their eligibility to reclaim their VAT on their purchases. 

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Ken Kelling
Communications Director Visit London

Ken Kelling is Communications Director at Visit London where he heads up the organisation’s Public Relations and Public Affairs. Ken joined Visit London in October 2003. Immediately before joining Visit London, Ken was acting Head of Communications at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre where he was in charge of the Theatre’s press and marketing work.

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Raymond Hole
Rh architects

Ray Hole has over 25 years experience in the construction industry covering a variety of roles and responsibilities working on both the public and private sector. He has been involved in a rich diversity of projects, some of which have been very complex, many more relatively straight forward, being both structural/civil engineer and architect.

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Rosita YIU
Vice President Sales Development EMEA Incoming China and Korea, Accor

Ambassador of the Accor Group for the development of different activities in China, Represented Accor during the cross cultural year between France and China, 2004-2005, Innovating and setting up the Chinese Standard within Accor Group - 60 hotels in Europe already set up

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Caroline de Maisonneuve
Asia Marketing & Promotions Manager, Galeries Lafayette

Born in UK (of Scottish stock) but raised all over the world, Caroline has spent much time in the Asian region. After two years in Singapore working for Takashimaya, a Japanese retail giant she joined the Galeries Lafayette group in France. Combining retail and tourism in the golden years of Japanese tourism in Paris, she went on to develop Galeries Lafayette’s promotion strategy for the rest of Asia.

 
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Ed Dean
JETT Training, Director of Operations

Originally from London, Ed moved to China in spring 2003 and co-founded JETT Training in 2004. As Director of Operations he is responsible for ongoing client liaison, overseeing the development of all training material in line with client requirements, and the management of all projects and trainers.

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Dorosthy Teng started her career in hospitality industry in early 90’s before she joined the travel and tourism industry in 1995 in Malaysia. This was when the China market had just begun to emerge in Europe. She then been offer an opportunity to return to UK in 1996 and continue working in the travel and tourism industry for another year before she joined GTA in July 1997.  

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Mark Eadie is the Technical Director responsible for ERM’s social consulting practice in mainland China. He has twenty years experience covering a wide range of external relations, crisis management, marketing, commercial, logistics, procurement and consulting positions in countries as diverse as China, Madagascar, Oman and in western Europe.

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Six years ago, Albert assisted in starting up WildChina to satisfy the growing needs of providing high-end, stress-free travel to China’s off the beaten path destination.  Over the past 6 years, what started as a premium travel provider for individuals has grown into a company with a varied clientele, ranging from our original independent travelers to educational institutions, non-profit organizations, overseas travel partners, and corporations requiring top level conference programs. 

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Keith Beecham
General Manager, Asia Pacific, Visit Britain

Keith graduated with an MBA from Bradford University in 1982 and has since held a number of high-profile marketing related posts both in the UK and overseas, including a period as Senior Lecturer at Thames