This is the third time Zambia is in the Center of Peace Through Tourism in the last year.
This is the third time Zambia is in the Center of Peace Through Tourism in the last year. After hosting two international events for the International Institute for Peace of Tourism (IIPT), and after dedicating Victoria Falls as a Peace Park 3 years ago, Zambia is firm on its commitment to support peace and tourism. On the day prior to the opening of the UNWTO General Assembly in Zambia and Zimbabwe, the President of the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism, Louis D’Amore, said at the re-dedication of Victoria Falls as a peace park and tree planting.
Without question Zambia has been taking a leading role in tourism over the years and plans to continue this commitment.
“We are most honored to have with us today, His Royal Highness Chief Mukuni of the Leya people on whose lands Victoria Falls is located; Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, First President of Zambia; and Dr. Taleb Rifai, Secretary General of the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). And IIPT expresses its sincere appreciation to H.E. Senator Akel Biltaji of Jordan for traveling to Livingstone to join us in this re-dedication of the Victoria Falls IIPT International Peace Park with six olive trees from Bethany Beyond the Jordan, site of Christ’s baptism, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site and where IIPT dedicated an International Peace Park on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the first year of the new millennium as a legacy of its First Global Summit. With the planting of these six olive trees to day, Jordan and Zambia – Victoria Falls, and Bethany Beyond the Jordan are now symbolically linked as ‘places of peace,’” D’Amore said.
“I am also pleased to announce that as we re-dedicate this Peace Park today, some thirty more peace parks are being dedicated in South Africa, the Caribbean, and India as these towns and villages dedicate themselves to peace as part of IIPT’s new Peace Town initiative recently launched with Skal International. Dr. Kalifungwa and I would like to thank you all for coming and joining us on the re-dedication of the IIPT Victoria Falls International Peace Park, and God bless you all,” D’Amore concluded.
