TSTT Interviews 2026

TSTT Interviews: 2025 2024 and previous years

Index of interviewees for 2025 and previous years

Mileidys Nieves

A life shaped by cacao, engineering, and chocolate

Javier Félez

Director of Grimaldi Lines and GTOE in Spain

Graziano Porcu

President of the Alghero Foundation, Sardinia (Italy)

David Bigorra

Photographer, travel and tourism communications specialist, and CEO of QTRAVEL magazine

Silvia Avilés

Director of Tourism Innovation Summit 2026 (Seville, Spain)

Rodrigo Esponda

Managing Director of FITURCA Los Cabos, Baja California Sur (Mexico)

Jennifer Zhang

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ASIALINK

María Paz Lagos Valdivieso

Undersecretary of Tourism of Chile

Daniela Norambuena Borgheresi

Mayor of La Serena, Chile

Anamaria Patiño Salgado

Executive Director of the Fedecacao Foundation

Gloria de León

Minister of Tourism – Panama Tourism Authority

Josefina Rodríguez Zamora

Secretary of Tourism of the United Mexican States

Maria Abellanet i Meya

CETT Barcelona School of Tourism, Hospitality and Gastronomy

Maritza Rodríguez de Montero

President of the Organizing Committee of Peru Travel Mart 2026

Carlos A. Amaya Rodríguez

Governor of Boyacá – Colombia

José Jofré Bustos

President of the Association of Tourist Municipalities of Chile and Mayor of El Quisco – Valparaíso (Chile)

Miltón León

General Manager – Courtyard by Marriott Bogotá Airport

Rafael Isún

CEO Travel Advisors Guild

Yatan Ahluwalia

Secretary General Pacific Area Travel Writers Association (PATWA)

José Gerardo Guarisma Jr.

Rector-President – Florida Global University

Luis Alejandro Dávila Chávez

Vice President of Tourism - ProColombia

Morena I. Valdez Vigil

Minister of Tourism of El Salvador

Cinthia Martha Yáñez

Minister of Tourism, Culture, Folklore and Gastronomy of the Plurinational State of Bolivia

Eduardo Cruvinel

President of Belotur – Belo Horizonte Tourism Office (Brazil)

Why wine tourism is redefining the wine business

Sensory innovation, experience, and strategy: Zaida Semprún’s perspective on the present and future of wine Tourism

Karim Makhlouf

Royal Jordanian Chief Commercial Officer

Michele Zavoli

CEO and Founder of Travelware

Phun Kevin

Director of the International Centre for Responsible Tourism – Southeast Asia. Responsible Borneo

Eva Blasco

President - World Travel Agents Associations Alliance

Viktoria Kundi

Head of Tourism and Hospitality Department - Széchenyi István University

Maribel Rodríguez

President Women Leading Tourism (WLT)

Hugo Marcos

General Secretary of International Committee of Tourism Film Festivals

Senthil Gopinath

Chief Executive Officer - International Congress and Convention Association

Roula Jouny

CEO of Rocket International

Fahad Hasan

CEO of Al Mashreq Hospitality

Martina Bienenfeld

CEO of the Zagreb Tourist Board

The authors are responsible for the choice and presentation of the facts contained in this document and for the opinions expressed therein, which are not necessarily those of Tourism and Society Think Tank and do not commit the Organization, and should not be attributed to TSTT or its members.

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