Index of interviewees 2025 and previous years

Alessandra Priante — President of the Italian National Tourism Authority (ENIT) (2025)

Alfredo Grande — Curator of SACRUM 2024 (2024 and previous years)

Álvaro Carmona López — SACRUM’24 – Technical Director (2024 and previous years)

Angel Nokonoko Micoso — President of the Bioko Chamber of Commerce (Equatorial Guinea) (2024 and previous years)

Ángeles Moreno — Congress Curator of the Tourism Innovation Global Summit Tis – 2023 (2024 and previous years)

Ayush Das — Photographer: traveling through life behind a camera (2024 and previous years)

Boris Iraheta — Secretary General of the Central America Tourism Agency (CATA) (2024 and previous years)

Carl Themes — The future of tourism in the Americas (2025)

Carlos Añaños — From adversity to prosperity: Ayacucho’s transformation (2024 and previous years)

Carlos E. Díaz-Rosillo — Americas Tourism Summit 2024 (2025) (2024 and previous years)

Catalina Osorio — Chef (Colombia) (2024 and previous years)

Dimitrios Buhalis — Professor and international expert (2025)

Dr. Eduard Baquero López — Executive President of the National Federation of Cocoa Growers of Colombia (2025)

Eduardo Cruvinel — President of Belotur – Belo Horizonte Tourism Office (Brazil) (2025)

Eduardo Parra López — Summit Chairman: Tourism The State of the Art ’2024 (2024 and previous years)

Eduardo Sanguinetti — Minister of Tourism of Uruguay (2024 and previous years)

Erkan Yildirim — Managing Director of Rixos Hotels Egypt (2024 and previous years)

Erzi Espinoza — Director of tourism product development at the Guatemalan Tourism Institute (INGUAT) (2024 and previous years)

Eugenio Yunis — International expert (2024 and previous years)

Eva Blasco — President – World Travel Agents Associations Alliance (2025)

Fahad Hasan — CEO of Al Mashreq Hospitality (2025)

Fernando Molina — Author of the Tourist, Regenerative and Circular Intelligence System (2024 and previous years)

Gloria Guevara Manzo — Candidate for Secretary General of the World Tourism Organisation (2025)

Gustavo Riveiro D’Angelo — Dept. of Tourism Pastoral, Spanish Episcopal Conference (2024 and previous years)

Gustavo Santos — Director for the Americas of the UNWTO (2024 and previous years)

Harris Whitbeck — Minister of Tourism of Guatemala (2024 and previous years)

Harry Theoharis — Official candidate for the post of Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) (2025)

Heidi Hammel — Vice President for Science, AURA and scientist in the James Webb Telescope Project (2024 and previous years)

Idries Ambedkar — India’s booming spiritual tourism as a growing economic engine (2024 and previous years)

Jean-Guy de Gabriac — CEO and founder of World Wellness Weekend (2024 and previous years)

José Jiménez — To talk about Astrotourism is to talk about Chile (2024 and previous years)

José Luis Pérez — Producer and director of Casa Rivera del Cacao (Colombia) (2024 and previous years)

Juan Manrique Camargo — Vice-Minister of Tourism of Colombia (2025)

Liu Wong — Journalist, researcher and professor of tourism marketing (2025)

Liuba Vega Viera — Chef of Cabaret Tropicana (Cuba) (2024 and previous years)

Luis Fernando Ramírez Dávila — An innovative and visionary chef (2024 and previous years)

Manuel Panadero López — Director of Institutional Relations at Globalia Corporación Empresarial (2025)

Maria Nchama Nzoho — Director General of the International Tourism Fair of Central Africa (FITAC) (2024 and previous years)

Martina Bienenfeld — CEO of the Zagreb Tourist Board (2025)

Mateo Estrella-Durán — Minister of Tourism of Ecuador (2025)

Matteo Ferraro — Expert in the phenomenon of tourismophobia (2024 and previous years)

Mohamed M. Mahmoud — CEO Sama Travel (2024 and previous years)

Monsignor José Mario Bacci — Bishop of the Diocese of Santa Marta, the historic cradle of evangelization in Colombia (2025)

Mulemwa Moongwa — Governing Council Chairperson, Zambia Institute for Tourism and Hospitality Studies (2025)

Nathalie Desplas — Secretary of Tourism of Mexico City (2024 and previous years)

Nayer Prasad — Artificial Intelligence applied to the Tourism Industry (2024 and previous years)

Norbert Onkelbach — Chief Commercial Officer, Lima Airport (2024 and previous years)

Nuria Lucia Beholi Epesi — Secretary of State for Tourism and Tourism Infrastructures – Equatorial Guinea (2025)

Pablo Menoni — Minister of Tourism of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (2025)

Pepijn Grau — CEO of Go Local Travel (2025)

Raimond Torrents — Event Management Institute (2024 and previous years)

Roula Jouny — CEO of Rocket International (2025)

Santi Valldepérez — Director of the Terres Travel Festival (2025)

Senthil Gopinath — Chief Executive Officer – International Congress and Convention Association (2025)

Susana da Graça — Sama Travel – Tour Operator (2024 and previous years)

Thomas Carl — “Africa is not only ready to welcome the world—it is ready to inspire it” (2025)

Viktoria Kundi — Head of Tourism and Hospitality Department – Széchenyi István University (2025)

Winston Wolf — International consultant, university doctorate and governance expert (2024 and previous years)