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What is Skål International? Skål is a professional organization of tourism leaders around the world, promoting global tourism and friendship. It is the only international group uniting all branches of the travel and tourism industry. Its members, the industry's managers and executives, meet at local, national, regional, and international levels to discuss and pursue topics of common interest. The first Club was founded in 1932 in Paris by travel managers, following an educational tour of Scandinavia. The idea of international goodwill and friendship grew and, in 1934, the "Association Internationale des Skål Clubs" was formed with Florimond Volckaert as its first President, who is considered the "Father of Skål". Skål International today has approximately 22,000 members in more than 525 Clubs throughout 80 nations. Most activities occur at local levels, moving up through National Committees and Area Committees, under the umbrella of Skål International, headquartered at the General Secretariat in Torremolinos, Spain. Skål International is governed by an Executive Committee of seven members, elected by delegates to an annual General Assembly, held during the World Congress, hosted by a different club each year. This allows members first-hand observation of the travel and tourism potential around the world. Thirty-six Years of Skål in Taipei The Skål movement has a history of more than 36 years in Taipei (and Taiwan). The process of organizing the Taipei club began in 1968, when a Taiwanese tourism promotion mission encountered Canadian Skål members during a visit to Vancouver. The movement gained force at a PATA Annual Congress in Taiwan, when representatives from Skål International urged the formation of a club in Taipei. Skål International Taipei came into being in May 1970. Two of the original members, founder Dawson Kwak and charter member May Tseng, are still active in the club. Skål Taipei has grown steadily in recent years and has a membership that now exceeds 80, comprised mainly of travel agents and hoteliers with smaller numbers of airline executives, PCOs, NTO representatives, and journalists, among others.. It has also helped to form two younger clubs in Taiwan, in Kaohsiung and Taichung; both are much smaller than Taipei, but both are also growing. The next target is Taiwan's relatively undeveloped east coast, where an effort is under way to organize a club in Hualien-also known as Marble City, and the point of departure for visits to the world-famous Taroko Gorge. The annual membership dues for Skål Taipei buy the members 11 annual functions: nine monthly luncheon meetings (held a different hotel each month, on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday) and two evening parties, one for Christmas and one for the Chinese New Year. There is also an annual National Assembly and Outing which the three Taiwan clubs take turns organizing. This is an evening event, and it also involves day tours in and around whichever city is hosting. Taipei regularly sends delegates to the Skål World Congress and the Asian Area Assembly; it has hosted the assembly twice, in 1982 and 1992, and two of its members have served as president of Skål Asia. The next big event for Skål Taipei-the biggest ever-is the Skål World Congress in 2008, for which all the club's members are now engaged in vigorous preparations. |
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