{"id":691,"date":"2020-03-22T09:39:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T09:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=25092"},"modified":"2020-04-17T07:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T07:23:24","slug":"taleb-rifai-alain-st-ange-leading-tourism-task-force-for-africa-on-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/taleb-rifai-alain-st-ange-leading-tourism-task-force-for-africa-on-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Taleb Rifai &amp; Alain St. Ange Leading Tourism Task Force for Africa on COVID 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/destinations\/africa\/taleb-rifai-alain-st-ange-leading-tourism-task-force-for-africa-on-covid-19\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Taleb Rifai &amp; Alain St. Ange Leading Tourism Task Force for Africa on COVID 19-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Taleb-Rifai-Alain-St.-Ange-Leading-Tourism-Task-Force-for-Africa-on-COVID-19-TRAVELINDEX-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"Taleb Rifai &#038; Alain St. Ange Leading Tourism Task Force for Africa on COVID 19\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>Victoria, Mah\u00e9 (Seychelles) &#8211; March 22, 2020 (<a href=\"http:\/\/travelindex.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">travelindex.com<\/a>) &#8211; With COVID-19 cases now spreading in many African countries African Interests are going all out against the threat of the deadly coronavirus and destroying the continent&#8217;s travel and tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>With the launch of the COVID 19 Tourism Task Force for Africa, Taleb Rifai and Alain St.Ange are taking an important step to give Africa a strong voice on a global stage.<\/p>\n<p>Africa expert Cuthbert Ncube said: \u201cI see our role as having the interest of our African travel and tourism industry in mind. The victim in the coronavirus situation clearly is the travel and tourism industry. We are more fragile in Africa than anyplace else in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this task force will be to act efficiently and fast, giving African stakeholders an important voice and help to minimize the impact of this global challenge .\u201d The task force will be able to react to this emerging crisis on a daily basis. It will be flexible enough to adjust its activities constantly without having to delay the process by a time-consuming decision making process.<\/p>\n<p>Joining the growing team of this newly established task force are known tourism celebrities operating under the leadership of\u00a0Dr. Taleb Rifai, patron, who was the Secretary-General of the\u00a0World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)\u00a0for almost 8 years.\u00a0Joining also is former Minister of Tourism for Seychelles Alain St. Ange,\u00a0and\u00a0Dr Peter Tarlow\u00a0a renowned international expert in travel, tourism, and health.\u00a0Dr. Tarlow has managed tourism safety and security projects for\u00a0Safertourism.com\u00a0as well as training of tourism police around the globe. Dr. Tarlow also teaches medicine at the University in Texas, USA.<\/p>\n<p>The COVID 19 Tourism Task Force for Africa is in direct contact with sitting ministers and heads of African National and Regional Tourism Boards and tourism associations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tourismafrica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">For the largest resource on tourism in Africa visit TourismAfrica.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria, Mah\u00e9 (Seychelles) &#8211; March 22, 2020 (<a href=\"http:\/\/travelindex.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">travelindex.com<\/a>) &#8211; With COVID-19 cases now spreading in many African countries African Interests are going all out against the threat of the deadly coronavirus and destroying the continent&#8217;s travel and tourism industry. With the launch of the COVID 19 Tourism Task Force for Africa, Taleb Rifai and Alain &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}