Ignasi de Delàs i de Ugarte

Name: Ignasi de Delàs i de Ugarte

Nationality: Spain

Position: Committee Member

Introduction: Ignasi de Delàs i de Ugarte is Graduated in Economic and Management Sciences by the University of Barcelona, focused on company and specialized in funding.

From 1983 to 1988 he was member of the Planning Studies Center and permanent consultant in the Centre d’Etudes des Transports pour la Méditerranée Occidentale, organism which depended on the United Nations.

Later he worked in THR, the leading tourist consultancy company in Spain, as a consultant to companies on issues of hotel management and restaurant industry, and he was an international consultant of the WTO (World Tourism Organization) and the UNDP (United Nations Development Program).

In 1992 he was the Director for Trade and Tourism of the Official Chamber of Trade, Industry and Navigation of Barcelona. After and until 2000 he was the Director of planning and management control of the Consortium Turisme de Barcelona, a private-public company created in 1993 by the Town hall of Barcelona and the Official Chamber of Trade, Industry and Navigation of Barcelona.

From 2000 to his designation as CEO of the Consortium Turisme de Catalunya, he was the Deputy General Director of Turisme de Barcelona.

Also related to the tourism sector, he has been member of the Executive Committee of the Barcelona Convention Bureau of the Executive Committee and the General Council of the Diputació de Barcelona Promotion Tourist Agency. He has also occupied the Vice-presidency of the ECT (European Cities Tourism) Administration Board (2002-2004).

As the CEO of the Catalan Tourism Board (2004-2011), he contributed to launch the Catalan Agency of Tourism, whose aim is Catalonia’s tourist promotion and the positioning of the brand Catalonia as a leading destination.

From 2013 to 2017 he was President of the ECM board (European Cities Marketing) and he was also member of the ECM administration Board (2012-2013) and Vice-president of ECT (European Cities Tourism, that after became ECM) (2002-2004)

At the present time he is the Deputy General Manager of Turisme de Barcelona organism responsible for the promotion of a worldwide recognized tourist destination, treasurer of the ECM board (European Cities Marketing), since June 2017 and member of UNWTO Affiliate Members Government Board

Also Mr. de Delàs is member of the Délice Executive committee meeting. Délice is a global network gathering cities whose culinary heritage & gastronomic offer define them as great food destinations.