Jamaica will host the second International Tourism Resilience Convention on the Montego Bay Conference Centre in St James from February 16 to 17.
The Ministry of Tourism and the International Tourism Resilience and Disaster Administration Centre (GTRCMC) are collaborating to stage the two-day occasion.
It’ll characteristic panel discussions, networking alternatives, displays, and vigorous debates on issues regarding constructing resilience in tourism.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, will tackle the convention on Saturday, February 17, with the inaugural International Tourism Resilience Awards slated to be held later that night.
In his remarks throughout a media briefing on the Jamaica Vacationer Board (JTB) in New Kingston on Tuesday (February 13), Portfolio Minister Edmund Bartlett, mentioned the primary day of the convention might be devoted to the tutorial and different thought-leadership discussions and discourses.
“The second day would be the day devoted to discussions on tourism resilience. Now the significance of that day is the [date, the] seventeenth of February, and that’s the day that the United Nations (UN) has designated as International Tourism Resilience Day,” he acknowledged.
“Jamaica is especially pleased with this designation, as it’s due to our Prime Minister’s speech to the UN in September of final 12 months calling for a International Tourism Resilience Day, [which] adopted my presentation to the UN… on the sixth of February 2023, at which 94 nations instantly supported and co-sponsored the decision,” the minister added.
Bartlett identified that this was a “great feat” and achievement for a small nation like Jamaica.
Moreover, he mentioned Jamaica is the second growing nation that has enabled a date to be established globally for any self-discipline or any type of financial or social exercise.
Bartlett knowledgeable that for World International Tourism Resilience Day, there might be discussions on schooling and tourism, with the aim of exploring the prospect of creating a Caribbean Tourism Academy.
He suggested that UN Tourism Govt Secretary, Natalia Bayona, may even be having discussions with the HEART/NSTA Belief, the Jamaica Centre for Tourism Innovation (JCTI) and several other lecturers, together with GTRCMC Director, Professor Lloyd Waller.
“They’ll be visiting the Centre on the College of the West Indies, and that is going to be a vital improvement for Caribbean tourism, not only for Jamaica, as a result of the facility of the human capital is what we should leverage for our wealth,” Bartlett acknowledged.
He famous that because the world modifications, it’ll require new abilities, “and so the normal… what we name informal work that has characterised tourism over time, goes”.
“A lot of that informal work goes to get replaced by machine intelligence, and the facility of individuals to control machine intelligence is what will create relevance. We should be on the reducing fringe of it, and this Authorities is aware of that; and that is why schooling transformation is such an essential a part of our coverage path. Tourism has to proceed. It’s the one business on the earth that can survive each technological advance,” Bartlett mentioned.
The much-anticipated convention might be attended by authorities ministers from a number of nations, coverage advisors, lecturers, executives of a number of worldwide organisations, and world enterprise leaders, amongst different key stakeholders.
-JIS
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