The Team
Kwakye Donkor
CEO, Africa Tourism Partners (ATP) and Founding Director, ATLF.
Kwakye Donkor is an astute international marketing and tourism expert with a wealth of international experience and solid global network. He is the CEO of African Tourism Partners. Prior to joining ATP, Kwakye was the Marketing and Communications Director of the Regional Tourism Organization of Southern Africa (RETOSA). He also worked, among others, as the Marketing Director at Fancourt, National Marketing and Communications Manager at Provident Financial – UK / South Africa and Senior Corporate Marketing Officer at Africa Bank Investment Limited and is a guest lecturer at TUT Business School. He is an award winning Chartered Marketer and has undertaken projects with international organisations and spoken at numerous International fora including UNWTO, SADC, EU, GIZ, JICA, ECOWAS, World Tourism Safety and SAT Tourism Conferences, Events and Workshops. He is also a guest lecturer at the TUT Business School in South Africa.
Jerome Touze
CMO, Travelstart Group and Co-Founding Non-Exec Director of ATLF.
Jerome Touze is the CMO of the Travelstart Group, a leading OTA in Africa and the Middle East. Prior to joining Travelstart, Jerome was the co-Founder and co-CEO of WAYN.com (part of the lastminute.com group), the largest travel and lifestyle social media platform with over 25 million members worldwide.
In 2006, he led a partial sale of the business to DFJ Esprit, a Venture Capitalist firm based in Cambridge, attracting investment from eminent Internet Founders such as Brent Hoberman (lastminute.com), Hugo Burge (Cheapflights.co.uk), and Andy Phillips (Active Hotels). He was responsible for implementing the main revenue channels and signing key strategic partnerships with Booking.com, Google and India Today Group. He also led the Sale of WAYN.com in September 2016 to the lastminute.com group.
Miller Motola
CEO, Millvest and Director, ATLF
With a Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of the North, Miller Matola began his career as a lecturer at Vista University where he worked for four years. During this time, he obtained a BA Honours (Cum Laude) from the University of Potchefstroom. Thereafter he took on a project management course whilst working as a Project Manager at a Technikon in South Africa.
He was then awarded a scholarship by the United States Agency, for International Development, to travel to the US amongst others as part of the USAID South Africa – Namibia Institute. Upon his return to South Africa in 1996, Miller was appointed to design a tourism course, which fuelled his interest in the tourism sector. Since then he has worked with various organizations in executive positions in the tourism and hospitality industries, including working with the Department of Tourism, Tourism KwaZulu-Natal, Wildlife KZN, Tourism Grading Council of SA, Durban Chamber of Commerce and the International Convention Center Durban, amongst others.
Tes Proos
Founder, Crystal Events Africa and Director, ATLF
Tes has been in the hotel and hospitality industry for nearly 30 years, having started out as a hotel management trainee with the Southern Sun group of hotels in 1985. She spent 5 years at Sandton Sun Hotel before joining the opening team of Gallagher Estate in 1993. From there she had a 5 year stint with Sun International and started working as a DMC from July 2000.
Tes is the owner and founder of Crystal Events and Incentives, which was founded in 2008 and is also the proud winner of the 2014 Crystal Award for Best Motivational Progamme.
She served as president of the SITE Southern Africa chapter from 2012 until March 2018. Tes has extensive experience in hotel, operations and event management as well as sales and marketing within the tourism industry. She thoroughly enjoys sharing her knowledge and passion at all levels and consults to the industry on a regular basis.
Abrafi Luntu
Events Co-ordinator and Director at ATLF
Abrafi Luntu is currently a 2nd year LLB undergrad at the University of Cape Town and works for Africa Tourism Partners as an event co-ordinator responsible for supporting all ATP’s leadership as well as the annual planning and co-ordination of Masterclasses, Coaching, The Beijing International Travel Mart, The Africa Tourism Leadership Forum & Awards to name but a few. Abrafi was a Representative on the Council of Leaders for 2 years (2012 -2013) and was voted in the position of Head RCL for a further 2 years (2014-2015). She was voted the Head Girl of Sutherland High School which gave her the opportunity to plan further events such as the Matric Tea, Veld Fliek and The Lip Sync Battle. She enjoys cultural activities and has participated in numerous public speaking and cheerleading competitions for which she received colours and honours. She also received honours in leadership.
