As the Caribbean continues to wrestle with the global pandemic and its unprecedented impacts on Caribbean tourism, it is critical that regional tourism stakeholders, related businesses, academia, and development partners directly and indirectly attached to the Caribbean tourism value chain work together to further deliberate on current and pressing issues facing the growth of Caribbean tourism.
This virtual one-day conference will commemorate World Tourism Day 2021 through an unprecedented collaborative approach among agencies that play in role in contributing to the social and economic development of the region, thus demonstrating a major commitment to the sustainability and inclusive growth of the Caribbean tourism sector in this period and beyond.
Partners
Various regional development partners will present a united front and showcase the strong support for Caribbean tourism recovery and future resilience.
Organizers of the virtual event include
- The Caribbean Tourism Organization
- University of the West Indies
- Association of Caribbean States
- Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association
- Caribbean Public Health Agency
- Compete Caribbean Partnership Facility
- Global Tourism Resilience & Crisis Management Centre
- Inter-American Development Bank, Organisation of American States
- Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
- The United Nations Development Programme for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean
Register for the event here