The Aldo Papone Endownment, in honour of a former President of American
Express, has provided funding to schools from ten countries, whose Travel &
Tourism Programmes are joined together as the GTTP. Each school won its
country's competition for the best project on Heritage Tourism. Representatives of these schools will present their winning projects at the Global Travel and Tourism Student Conference in Nice, France. Learners will get the opportunity to present their case study, and discuss ways of encouraging tourism to their respective countries through Heritage. Each school has also prepared a case study on Heritage Tourism which will be posted on a web site, www.gttp.org, so that the 78 000 GTTP students around the world can benefit from this research.

The competition was launched to learners in ten countries around the world. The
participating countries are: Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Russia, Ireland, the UK, the USA, Jamaica, Hungary and South Africa.

This year's conference in Nice is hosted by Amadeus and the Accor  group of
hotels.

The South African delegation is transported to Nice by    

A special word of thanks to the NBI (National Business Initiative) who has awarded a R4000 grant to support the case study research and writing and has managed the development of the case study.  To Darryn von Maltitz, thank you for your encouragement and  support throughout the the whole process.  You are the best! 

Our Global Partners must also be thanked. These are industry leaders whose
continued support make our global education effort possible: Amadeus, American Express, British Midland Airways (BMI), Budget Car Rental, Galileo, Hertz, KLM, Lufthansa and the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC).
 

To Oom Piet Karsten and the employees of Karsten Farms,  Klein Pella, South Africa,  thank you for the encouragement and financial support to complete this research project.

We would also wish to thank Derick van Wyk (16), a fellow student at Duineveld  High School for the hours of hard work to create this web document.

Last, but not least, we thank our Heavenly Father for the talents He had given us.