GGDD19:
October 8 – 12, Croatia
Meet our speakers
Host

Ognjen Golubić
Conference Host
Keynote speakers

Gari Cappelli
Croatian Minister of Tourism
Croatia
Welcome and opening presentation

Albert Salman
President of Green Destinations | Founder of the Global Leaders initiative
The Netherlands
Opening presentation: Destinations, Profitability and Sustainability

Slavija Jačan Obratov
Croatian National Tourism Board
Keynote Speaker
Susan Santos de Cardenas
President of Society for Sustainable Tourism & Development Inc. (SST)
The Philippines
The Southeast Asian Experience
Keynote Speaker
Beatriz Barreal
Founder and CEO of Riviera Maya Sostenible I Co-creator of México Sostenible
Mexico

Hrvoje Carić
Institute for Tourism
Croatia
The Croatian Experience

Jelka Tepšić
Deputy Mayor City of Dubrovnik / Honorary consul to the Kingdom of Spain
Croatia

Ana Kučić
Mayor of Mali Lošinj
Croatia
Opening presentation in Mali Lošinj
Spreading tourism over space and time: destinations management & marketing
Hugo de Jong
Green Destinations Awards & Certification Manager
The Netherlands
Certification programs to manage destinations in a sustainable way

Albert Folch
Deputy Director of the TarragonaTourist Board, for the Terres de l’Ebre Region
Catalonia

Josep Capellà
Consultant in Torroella de Montgrí-L’Estartit
Catalonia
Overtourism/conservation and local development in Medes Islands MR

Maša Klemenčič
Slovenian Tourist Board
Slovenia
Karsten Palme
General Manager, COMPASS
Germany

Sandra Fernandes

IamaGoodTraveller
Cristina Del Favero and Loris Bondio
Canada / Italy

Inma Ballbé
DCB – Turisme I Desevolvement local
Catalonia

Izidora Marković Vukadin
Institute for Tourism
Croatia
Measuring tourism sustainability in practice, example of Croatia

Yoang-Goang Lin
Sun Moon Lake National Scenic Area Administration
Taiwan
How to benefit from the dramatic increase of tourists instead, the case of Sun Moon Lake

Paul Peeters
Professor at Breda University of Applied Sciences
The Netherlands
Panel Chair: Facing the carbon & climate challenge in tourism, incl. soft mobility
Thierry Joubert
Green Visions Ecotours / Via Dinarica
Slovenia
Via Dinarica Hiking Trail – Connecting Naturally the
Mountain Communities in the Western Balkans

Albert Salman
President of Green Destinations | Founder of the Global Leaders initiative
The Netherlands
Beatriz Barreal
Founder and CEO of Riviera Maya Sostenible I Co-creator of México Sostenible
Mexico
PLAYACAR
Water & Waste management and how to reduce the use of plastics
Henrique Ramos
Green Destinations Auditor
Portugal
Marine Debris/Waste Managment – Think Global, Act Local
Panel Chair: Waste management and how to reduce the use of plastics

Romana Purkart
Head of the Public Relations, Bled Tourist Board.
Slovenia

Emil Selse
Responsible for sustainability and sustainable product development, Region Östergötland
Sweden
How to reduce waste in the Östergötland archipelago by cooperation between private and public sector

Valentina Bračanov
Kornati National Park
Croatia

Antoine Delaunay Belleville
Make Sense Organisation
France
Tourism to support local communities, culture & tradition
Pekka Alhojärvi
GD Representative in Finland
Finland
Success stories of Fiskars Village and GD in Finland
Panel Chair: Communities & Culture (1)

Kari Selkälä
Director of Fiskars Village
Finland

Anne de Jong
Africa Coordinator, Green Destinations
The Netherlands
Community development through tourism in before isolated Karamoja Region in Uganda

Gregory Bakunzi
Red Rocks Sustainable Initiatives
Rwanda
Monique Chen
Sustainable Travel Taiwan (STT)
Taiwan
Fulong Coastal area, an historical tunnel transforming to a bike lane
Masaru Takayama
Founder of the Asian Ecotourism Network (AEN)
Japan
Passing Island Culture and Values to the Next Generation through Community-benefit Tourism

Carlos Bernardes
Mayor of Torres Vedras
Portugal
The case of Castro do Zambujal – A 5,000 Year Old Destination

Drejc Kokošar
Idrija tourism board
Slovenia
Sustainable gastronomy trips in UNESCO Geopark Idrija – a new opportunity for local communities

Carla Chandra
Ahmet Aras
Mayor of Bodrum
Turkey
Improving public access to coastal beaches: The effect of the municipality effort

Mrs. Irena Peršić Živadinov
Managing Director of the Kvarner County Tourist Board
Croatia

Seyma Bayazit
Researcher and Lecturer at Bandirma Faculty of Maritime, Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University
Turkey
Tourism to support nature and biodiversity

Mallory Morgan
National Coral Reef Management Fellow, Guam Bureau of Statistics and Plans
Guam
Tourism for Tasi (Ocean): Leveraging Stakeholders for the Benefit of Nature and Business

Irene Estaún
Director of the Menorca Biosphere Reserve Agency
Spain

Viorela Chiper
Asociatia Tinutul Zimbrului
Romania
Bison Land – the place where the legends and the bisons are living in the wild

Karin Nilsson
Destination Åsnen
Sweden
Protecting nature and wildlife with conscious tourism development

João Cardoso de Melo
Ecological Infrastructure Management Director, Cascais Ambiente
Portugal
Quinta do Pisão – Nature Park: A landscape-scale conservation project that links wildlife and people

Klemen Langus
Tourism Bohinj Board
Slovenia
The Wild Flower Festival, a small festival with global impact

Petra Stijelja
Priroda Public Institution
Croatia
Coexistence of tourism development and biodiversity preservation – Beli Visitor Centre

Peter Mackelworth
Blue World Institute
Croatia
Ensuring environmental resilience in the face of tourism development
Facing the carbon & climate challenge in tourism, incl. soft mobility

Tomaz Rogelj
Alpine Pearls
Slovenia
Alpine Pearls E-Tour – 1.000 miles from Cogne (Italy) to Bled (Slovenia) with electric cars

José Romana
DGE | Gabinete de Turismo Natureza, Cascais Ambiente
Portugal

Dominika Mazurkiewicz
Klimapatenschaft Tourismus
Germany

Lidija Srnec
DHMZ, Zagreb
Croatia
Present and future climate potential for tourism development in Mali Lošinj

Ariana B. Suhadolnik
Turizem Miren-Kostanjevica
Slovenia
Green scheme- a lighthouse in the developement of Miren Kras destination/ E-mobility project