Award for member of the World Tourism Forum Lucerne Advisory Board

Vijay Poonoosamy, Vice President International & Public Affairs of Etihad Airways, Chairman of the IATA Industry Affairs Committee and Member of the Advisory Board of the World Tourism Forum, received the International Intellectuals Award “The Great Son of the Soil” from the All-India Conference of Intellectuals during a ceremony at the India International Centre in New Delhi on Saturday 26 February 2011.

The All-India Conference of Intellectuals stated that the Award was “in recognition of the distinguished services rendered by Shri Vijay Poonoosamy to the Society at Large and to international civil aviation in particular.”

The Award was presented to Mr Poonoosamy by Dr B.P. Singh, Governor of Sikkim and former Home Secretary of India and Dr Busham Narain Singh (photo), President of the All-India Conference of Intellectuals and former Governor of 7 States in India, in the presence of Dr AR Kidwai, President of the Union Public Service Commission of India and former Governor of Harayana and Bihar.

All India Conference of Intellectuals was inaugurated in 1980 by late Srimati Indira Gandhi.

World Tourism Forum Lucerne relies on the support of an international advisory council whose members include Samih Sawiris (Chairman & CEO Orascom Development Holding), Thea Chiesa (Head of Aviation, Travel and Tourism World Economic Forum), Andreas Meyer (CEO of Swiss Federal Railways), Sir David Michels (Deputy Chairman Marks & Spencer Plc., former CEO of Hilton Group) and Geoffrey Lipman (Special Advisor to the Secretary General of UNWTO, Director of greenearth.travel). 

Sabine Biedermann, Primus Communications