Dubai, CMC: Belize will host the inaugural World Sustainable Journey and Hospitality Awards subsequent yr, permitting the nation to showcase its sustainability practices on the worldwide stage.
“There’s a actual alternative for Belize to share this finest follow with the world. It is just going to be via that sharing and that storytelling of the sort of how everyone knows that. Everyone knows the why,” stated Justin Cooke, the chief president of World Journey Awards.
“We don’t know the way, and that’s, I suppose, what Belize can convey to the world. It’s like that is how we will do it. And by sharing these tales, we can assist others inform their story,” he informed the occasion on the sidelines of the United Nations Local weather Change Convention (COP 28).
Chief Govt Officer of the Sustainable Hospitality Alliance, Glenn Mandziuk, stated, “What higher place on earth to showcase sustainability at its highest,”
He stated he was acknowledged by the journey business’s premier awards program, the World Journey Awards, which honors trailblazers in international tourism, airways, accommodations, and hospitality. He stated the worldwide occasion is anticipated to place Belize on the worldwide stage for its sustainability practices in tourism.
“Having this occur in a rustic that showcases it the best, with members from the hospitality business, a dedication to tourism and tourism improvement, is the best place. And it’s the proper message from the place we have to take sustainability into the longer term as a result of it has to start out on the grassroots for it to blossom into the entire world embracing it.
“The tourism business has a compelling alternative to be the guardians of the planet and the stewards, and Belize has showcased how it may be performed and ought to be performed. And so, I feel that’s why this is a chance to convey the world to Belize to see it in motion,” he added.
The Belize Ministry of Tourism and Diaspora Relations chief govt officer, Nicole Solano stated the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) nation is acknowledged as a vacation spot with a strong dedication to accountable tourism.
“That is the primary of its form underneath the World Journey Awards banner. The significance of getting sustainable corporations in tourism characteristic via this award is what the target is. So, they had been searching for a vacation spot that’s identified or is exemplary by way of sustainable tourism, and what different vacation spot is best than Belize?
“Belize isn’t identified globally for that as a result of now we have been restricted in our attain. However, being concerned in an award like it will elevate us and produce visibility on a worldwide scale,” she added..”
The award will happen on SSept 27, World Tourism Day. It’ll embrace over 40 classes.
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