Join the Skal International Members
The benefits of joining Skal are many and varied. Some of them are as follows:
· Contacts with more than 20,000 tourism related companies to choose from
· Speakers, Discussions, the annual Tourism Forum and many opportunities to attend seminars internationally, nationally and locally
· More than 23,000 tourism professionals worldwide with whom to network
· The ideal way to meet new professional contacts when starting a new business.
· An ideal opportunity to meet other tourism professionals when moving to a new city
· Worldwide opportunities through national and international congresses in 87 countries
· The opportunity to develop new friends in the travel and tourism industry
· The opportunity to meet local colleagues in the industry at special functions.
· The opportunity to entertain business colleagues in a travel and tourism friendly environment.
· Access to more than 23,000 other tourism professionals at your fingertips through the Skal International website www.skal.org and the Preferred Contacts.
· A benevolent fund for those members or their families who fall on hard times.
Skal International is aiming at quality in tourism and supports the alternative forms of tourism such as Sports, Cultural Tourism, Congresses and Conventions, Ecotourism and the sustainable development in tourism.
Skal International cares about the environment and following the United Nations declaration of 2002 as the Year of Ecotourism and the Mountains launched the Skal International Ecotourism Awards during the World Congress in Cairns in 2002 and are now in their fourth This year we expect a large number of entries spread over a number of categories and the winners will be announced in Zagreb during the World Congress in October. Sustainable development in Tourism is the key to the industries future success and good Ecotourism is but one area of the areas of sustainable development.
Skal International is an Affiliate member of the World Tourism Organisation Business Council, one of whose missions is to promote ethics in business, particularly the Global Code of Ethics issued by the World Tourism Organisation, which includes peace, environment, security, pollution, human contacts, respect for local culture and so on, things that matter in our everyday lives and in the world around us. All these things can be achieved, not just at international level, but also locally and nationally.
The Skal Presidential theme is “Tourism through Friendship and Peace”. Without friendship there can be no peace and without peace there cannot be real tourism. We must use all the membership resources we have to work toward the ideal of total world peace.
Skal International is a founding partner of the Coalition for Peace through Tourism drawn up by the International Institute for Peace through Tourism, which itself holds a number of conventions and seminars on this important subject. Skal International is also a member of the task force on the prevention of sexual exploitation of children in tourism and is proud to announce that it is one of the sponsors of the Code of Conduct drawn up as a result of this task force. Skal International also supports ST-EP (Sustainable tourism - eliminating poverty) recently announced by the World Tourism Organisation. Some studies show that a number of the conflicts affecting tourism can be connected to poverty. Eliminating poverty therefore will go some way to eliminating some of the conflicts and consequently the elimination of terrorism. Spend more on food and less on arms.
Skal is a perfect platform to “Do Business between Friends”
웹사이트: http://www.skal.org
연락처
Brian B. Connelly (T : 3466 7003)
President of SCAL & General Manager of Oakwood Premier Coex Center
