Jubilee
Profile Index
"ATA
stands alone as the only world travel
industry association with African Tourism
Ministers as President, Vice Presidents
and Directors. These solid credentials
give Africa Travel Magazine an edge in
circulation via 23 African Tourism
Ministries and National Tourist Boards
that have hosted ATA events since 1976."
Editor
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Dave
Gibson
Co-Chair, ATA
Responsible Travel Committee
Chemonics International
Mr. Gibson has
supported natural resources and tourism management
programming in 40 countries across all regions
during the past 25 years. He has managed long-term
protected area and forestry projects in Ivory
Coast, Senegal and Rwanda and served as a forestry
and natural resources advisor to USAID's regional
programs in East Africa and Latin America from
1986-1994. He also helped organize and manage the
first and only airline dedicated to sustainable
tourism development (USAfrica Airways) where he
directed corporate responsibility and responsible
travel services. Since joining Chemonics
International seven years ago Dave has managed
numerous environment and natural resources
management projects across all regions with major
initiatives in community-based tourism development
by championing market-based approaches to
conservation programming.
He has also led
Chemonics interests in 3rd party certification
systems and manages numerous initiatives to support
development of food safety, forest certification,
and organic agriculture production standards. Dave
currently manages Chemonics Natural Resources
Management Practice Network which is active in more
than 15 countries. He has an M.S. in Land Use
Planning for the Yale School of Forestry &
Environmental Studies and B.S. in Wildlife Biology
and Forestry from Colorado State University. He is
a Certified auditor in Environmental Management
Systems (ISO 14001), Social Accountability (SA
8000), and the Forest Stewardship Council system.
He speaks fluent French and conversational
Spanish.
About
ATA
With the Africa
Travel Association's 30th Jubilee Congress in 2005,
the excitement is mounting as our magazine's
editors and New York office staff are going through
the archives in our effort to present a landmark
souvenir capsule of ATA's progress up to the
present time. The above profile is one important
step in that direction, as the association's great
strength is the caliber of people in its chapters
and on its Board of Directors.
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