Membership of Professional Organisations
• UNESCAP – United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific
• Global Travel & Tourism Resilience Council
• PATA – Pacific Asia Travel Association
• SKAL International – Professional organisation of tourism leaders
• IIPT – The International Institute for Peace Through Tourism
• Ambassador – African Tourism Board

Tony Smyth hails from County Cork in Ireland and has lived in Hong Kong for 30 years.

Tony is Senior Vice President with iFREE GROUP in charge of business development, corporate communications and establishing worldwide partnerships for this global consortium providing cuttingedge connectivity solutions.

iFREE GROUP investments span across sectors, including Travel & Leisure, Telecommunications, Smart Technologies, Health & Medical Technologies, Biotech, Healthcare & Well-being, Real Estate, Robotics, Entertainment, Financial Services, Retail & eCommerce, Security and Education. Tony works with the group’s international divisions and partners on the group’s core technological capabilities of Edge Computing, Internet of Things, 5G & Connectivity, Artificial intelligence and Facial Recognition.

He also leads a team developing Ebbly, a next generation, app-based Online Travel Portal integrating AI capabilities.

Tony is the Co-Founder of MCI Group of Companies with business interests in Asia, India and Africa.

He was founder and publisher the acclaimed HA+D/Hospitality Architecture + Design magazine. Tony is also a regular contributor to The Peninsula Hotels Magazine. He is a popular conference moderator around the world on a wide variety of subjects but specialises in travel, environment, mobile technology and connectivity.

Tony was Group Publisher, Asia Pacific and the Middle East for The Nielsen Company, a US$12bn global media and analytics company, charged with creating new markets in China, S.E. Asia and the Middle East for hospitality management and travel publications and events. Prior to entering the wild world of publishing in 1996, he owned companies involved in property and golf course development, fast food franchising and finance based in Hong Kong, China, the Philippines and Singapore. He is extremely experienced in forming unique and focussed networking platforms.