KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Jamaica will host the second World Tourism Resilience Convention that includes panel discussions, networking alternatives, shows, and debates on constructing resilience in tourism.
The Ministry of Tourism and the World Tourism Resilience and Disaster Administration Centre (GTRCMC) mentioned the two-day occasion will start on Friday.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness will deal with the convention on Saturday, with the inaugural World Tourism Resilience Awards scheduled for later within the night.
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett advised reporters that the primary day of the convention will probably be devoted to educational and different thought-leadership discussions and discourses.
“The second day will probably be devoted to discussions on tourism resilience. The significance of that day …that the United Nations (UN) has designated as World Tourism Resilience Day.
“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 World 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,” Bartlett mentioned.
He mentioned Jamaica is the second growing nation that has enabled a date to be established globally for any self-discipline or financial or social exercise. For World World Tourism Resilience Day, there will probably be discussions on schooling and tourism to discover the prospect of building a Caribbean Tourism Academy.
The UN Tourism Govt Secretary, Natalia Bayona, may even focus on with the HEART/NSTA Belief, the Jamaica Centre for Tourism Innovation (JCTI), and a number of 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 big improvement for Caribbean tourism, not only for Jamaica, as a result of the ability of the human capital is what we should leverage for our wealth,” mentioned Bartlett, noting that because the world adjustments, it should require new expertise, “and so the standard… what we name informal work that has characterised tourism through the years, goes.
“A lot of that informal work will probably be changed by machine intelligence, and the ability of individuals to control machine intelligence will create relevance. We have to be on the reducing fringe of it, and this authorities is aware of that. For this reason schooling transformation is an integral a part of our coverage path.
“Tourism has to proceed. It’s the one business on this planet that may survive each technological advance,” Bartlett mentioned.
Associated
