Press Release for UN Accredited Correspondents
Photo Credit” Devra Berkowitz
Airline Ambassadors International – 4/16/2024
Mr. Richard Jordan was chosen as the only invited presenter on tourism in the High-level Thematic Event organized by the President of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly, Mr. Dennis Francis.
Representing Airline Ambassadors International (AAI), the only relief and development organization of the airline industry and a pre-eminent humanitarian NGO over the last 35 years, Mr. Jordan’s intervention was in support of the Ministerial Roundtable held in the afternoon session.
The volunteers of AAI leverage their resources to help vulnerable women and children worldwide, and our focus is on the airline industry, especially anti-human trafficking training through INTERPOL, the hospitality and tourism industries, and other partners, to end the scourge of human trafficking and to alert tourists to the inhuman practices of traffickers.
Airline Ambassadors has also worked with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide Counter Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP) training at airports and partners worldwide.
As an ECOSOC-accredited NGO, Airline Ambassadors International (AAI) has shared its best multi-strategic and multi-sectoral approaches with the Intl. Civil Aviation Organization and in formal sessions in Vienna of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
AAI is an acknowledged NGO leader spearheading anti-human trafficking legislation and education to the airline industry, including providing transport, providing safe houses and educational support to victims as well.
In order to keep with the theme of the concept note for the High-level Event, Mr. Jordan emphasized the following points:
- The 1995 Lanzarote Declaration on Sustainable Tourism and the 2014 Patel College Communique on Resilient Tourism emphasize the need for wellbeing and benefits of the tourism and hospitality industries to accrue to local inhabitants and that tourism be developed with local partners;
- the senior tourism market has been emphasized by an industry leader, Intl. Council for Caring Communities, and the benefits of multiculturalism and multilingualism also can be associated with the senior market;
- tourism for the disabled should be a focus of the wellbeing, tourism and hospitality industries;
- private sector entities, as exemplified by The Chiles Hospitality Group on Anna Maria Island, Florida, is a world-class leader in promoting the decent work agenda not only for its employees but also for local and regional fisherfolk, along with research through the Gulf Shellfish Institute;
- lastly, regional initiatives, especially in the Caribbean as exemplified by Global Tourism Resilience Day, 17 February annually, as proclaimed in General Assembly Resolution A/RES/77/269, and commemorated twice through the work of the Hon. Edmund Bartlett, Tourism Minister of Jamaica, should become models for other similar regional fora.
For information on Airline Ambassadors International, please contact: Nancy Rivard, President, 415-359-8006 or Nancy@airlineamb.org
www.airlineamb.org provides full information on all AAI projects
For information on resilient tourism, or for information on The Chiles Hospitality Group or International Council for Caring Communities (ICCC), please contact:Mr. Richard Jordan, dpiconference@yahoo.com or 516-886-7778
