Pansy Ho

Group Executive Chairman and Managing Director, Shun Tak Holdings Limited

Ms. Pansy Ho is Group Executive Chairman and Managing Director of Shun Tak Holdings Limited, a Hong Kong listed conglomerate with businesses in property, transportation, hospitality and investment sectors. Ms. Ho also holds a respectable number of executive roles in various tourism-related enterprises in Hong Kong and Macau including Co- Chairperson and Executive Director of MGM China Holdings Limited, Director of Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau, SA., Shun Tak – China Travel Shipping Investments Limited, Air Macau Company Limited, Macau International Airport Company Limited, and Macau Tower Convention & Entertainment Centre.

Ms. Ho is dedicated to the promotion of global tourism development and plays active roles in leading tourism organizations of the world. She is an Executive Committee Member of WTTC and Executive Chairman of China Chamber of Tourism. She was appointed as the first official PATA Foundation Ambassador, the first Ambassador for the Louvre in China, and a UNWTO Tourism Ambassador. In 2011, she founded the Global Tourism Economy Research Centre, which organizes the annual Global Tourism Economy Forum, an internationally renowned exchange and cooperation platform for the promotion of sustainable tourism development, and co-publishes an annual research report on Asia Tourism Trends with UNWTO.