Zvine kusuwa kukuru kuti International Institute for Peace Through Tourism (IIPT) yakaziva nezvekushaya kwaMira Berman musi wa29 Chikumi 2010. Mira, muvambi uye mutungamiri weBradford Group uye director director weAfrica Travel Association kubva 1990 kusvika 2006. yaive kurudziro kune vese vaimuziva.
Pasi pehutungamiriri nehutungamiri hwaMira, Africa Travel Association - kuburikidza nemisangano yayo nekutaurirana- kunyanya Africa Travel Magazine uye webhusaiti, zvishoma nezvishoma yakaenzanisa mifananidzo yakaipa yeAfrica inoratidzwa munhepfenyuro huru nemifananidzo yakanaka yemarudzi akasiyana uye ane simba; nzvimbo dzinoyevedza dzine mhuka dzesango dzakawanda uye dzakasiyana-siyana; uye vanhu vane ushamwari, vanogamuchira vaeni zvakanaka sezvakaonekwa mavhiki apfuura aya nevose vakaona mitambo yeWorld Soccer.
Chiono nehutungamiriri hwaMira chave chiri chinhu chikuru chiri kubatsira mukukura kunoshamisa kwekushanya kwepasi rose muAfrica mumakore makumi maviri apfuura - uye kwemakore akati wandei emakore gumi apfuura, dunhu riri kutungamira pasi rose mukukura mukushanya kwepasirese. Sekutaura kwemupepeti weAfrica Travel Magazine Jerry Bird, “Mira Berman achadiwa zvakanyanya uye achazivikanwa zvakanyanya nebudiriro yake yakatanhamara mu‘Kuunza Nyika kuAfrica – neAfrica kuNyika.’”
Kubatanidzwa kwaMira zvakananga neIIPT kwakatanga nekuronga uye kushambadzira kwe1st IIPT Global Summit, uko Mira neBradford Group vaive mubatanidzwa wakakosha, pamwe nemutsigiri wezita reAmerican Express uye mugamuchiri weIIPT, Bazi reJordan Rezvekushanya uye Antiquities. Hukama hwepedyo uye hune zvibereko hweIIPT hwakaramba huchienderera mberi kubva ipapo kwemakore gumi asara nezviitiko zvepagore zveIIPT paWorld Travel Market, mimwe misangano miviri, misangano mina yemuAfrica, uye kuzvarwa kweAfrica Diaspora Heritage Trail. IIPT yakaremekedzwa zvikuru kuziva mipiro yakawanda yaMira kunyika ine runyararo uye yakagadzikana ine 1st IIPT Lifetime Achievement Award yakapihwa pa4th IIPT African Conference, Kampala, Uganda, 1997.
Mukupa mubairo uyu, muvambi weIIPT nemutungamiri wenyika, Louis D'Amore, akati: “Iropafadzo yangu huru kuziva nekushanda naMira kwemakore gumi nemashanu apfuura, uye kupa iyi yekutanga IIPT Lifetime Achievement Award kuna Mira Berman – uyo. akazvipira makore ekutanga ebasa rake rakanaka kusimudzira nyika, tsika, uye vanhu vakanakisa veAfrica kupasi rose, uye kuvaka sangano richaenderera mberi nekusimudzira kukura kwebudiriro yekushanya kwekondinendi yeAfrica.
“Kurasikirwa naMira kuchasiya dambudziko guru muhupenyu hwedu hwehunyanzvi uye hwepachedu. Tinoziva kuti Mira acharangarirwa neavo vese vane hupenyu hwaakabata nekuda kwerudo rwake uye rudo rweAfrica nevanhu vayo uye kuzvipira kwake kusimudzira hurongwa hwekuwedzera kushanya nekudyara kumakondinendi nenzira inoenderera uye ine chinangwa, "akadaro Karen. Hoffman, mutungamiri, The Bradford Group.
“Semukuru weATA kwemakore gumi nematanhatu, Mira akabatsira mukuvaka hwaro hwesangano redu, achipa nguva yake, shungu, zviwanikwa uye simba kuATA. Mira akazvipira upenyu hwake kuita kuti nyika ive nzvimbo iri nani uye acharangarirwa semumwe wevakadzi vanoshamisa venguva yedu,” akadaro Eddie Bergman, director director, Africa Travel Association.
Mira nenzira inoshamisa akapukunyuka kuparadzwa kukuru muma1940 achisvika kuUnited States naamai vake nehanzvadzi yake kuti atange hupenyu hutsva muNew York City. Aive mwana prodigy violinist, munyori, munyori - uye munguva pfupi aizova nyanzvi yekushambadzira uye yehukama neveruzhinji. Mira akanga achishanda pamativi akawanda, achishanda semutungamiri mukuru weThe Academy of Tourism Organizations (ATO) uye NOAH Awards Luncheon yayo; mutungamiriri mukuru weSosaiti Yekufambira Mberi Kwekufamba Kwevakaremara (SATH) uye Vhiki Yayo Yokuzivisa Vafambi Vane Hurema; mutevedzeri wasachigaro, Komiti Inoronga ye50th Anniversary Gala Dinner yeUnited Nations; uye komiti yepamusoro yeCelebrity Gala Ball kuti ibatsire United Negro College Fund.
Zvaakaita zvinoshamisa zvakabvumwa nemibairo inosanganisira Advertising Woman of the Year; Iyo International Firimu neTV Mutambo weTerevhizheni Menduru yeGoridhe uye Mubairo Mukuru; Mubairo Wehutungamiriri Hwakatanhamara weTanzania; uye International Institute for Peace kuburikidza neTourism Lifetime Achievement Award.
ZVOKUBVA MUNYAYA INO:
- “It is my great honor to have known and worked with Mira for the past 15 years, and to present this first IIPT Lifetime Achievement Award to Mira Berman – who devoted the prime years of her illustrious career to promoting the magnificent lands, cultures, and peoples of Africa to the world, and building an organization that will continue nurturing the growth of sustainable tourism development on the African continent.
- We know that Mira will be remembered by all those whose lives she has touched for her passion and love for Africa and its people and her commitment to pushing an agenda of increasing tourism and investment to the continent in a sustainable and meaningful way,” said Karen Hoffman, president, The Bradford Group.
- Mira's vision and leadership has been a major contributing factor in the dramatic growth of international tourism to Africa over the past 20 years – and for several of the last ten years, the world's leading region for growth in international tourism.
