{"id":198065,"date":"2025-05-14T05:47:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T03:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/north-africa-tunisia-makes-historic-bid-for-unwto-s-g-banking-on-its-internationally-recognised-experience-habib-ammar\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T05:47:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T03:47:44","slug":"north-africa-tunisia-makes-historic-bid-for-unwto-s-g-banking-on-its-internationally-recognised-experience-habib-ammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/north-africa-tunisia-makes-historic-bid-for-unwto-s-g-banking-on-its-internationally-recognised-experience-habib-ammar\/","title":{"rendered":"North Africa: Tunisia Makes Historic Bid for Unwto S-G. Banking On Its Internationally Recognised Experience (Habib Ammar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Tunis \u2014 &#8211; Tunisia is vying for the Secretary-General position of the United Nations Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) for the 2026-2029 term, presenting Habib Ammar as its candidate for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">He will compete against five nominees from Georgia (represented by the current Secretary-General), Ghana, Greece, Mexico, and the UAE. Ammar&#8217;s campaign is built on a 7-point programme under the slogan &#8220;Together We Make Tourism an Engine of Prosperity for All.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Ammar&#8217;s career began in Tunisia&#8217;s public&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505130509.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis \u2014 &#8211; Tunisia is vying for the Secretary-General position of the United Nations Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) for the 2026-2029 term, presenting Habib Ammar as its candidate for the first time. He will compete against five nominees from Georgia (represented by the current Secretary-General), Ghana, Greece, Mexico, and the UAE. Ammar&#8217;s campaign is built on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":198066,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,48969,10023,10798,8086,7351,13203,45962,257,6732,22957,254,4703,653,6368],"class_list":["post-198065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ammar","tag-banking","tag-bid","tag-experience","tag-habib","tag-historic","tag-internationally","tag-news","tag-north","tag-recognised","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-unwto"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}