India, March 25 -- On May 29-30, 2025, tourism ministers and their representatives from 20% of the UN Tourism member countries are scheduled to meet in Real Sitio de San Ildefonso, Segovia, Spain, to recommend a new UN Tourism Secretary General. Twenty percent of the UN Tourism members are rotating executive council members.

Their recommendation has to be confirmed by the full UN-Tourism General Assembly in Riyadh later this year. This is usually only a routine procedure, so the Executive Council decides for all 150+ member states making up for UN-Tourism, formerly UNWTO.

Even the name change was a sham, according to the former UNWTO Secretary-General Francesco Frangialli, to erase the failures under Zurab's leadership for UNWTO

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