The Caribbean Public Well being Company (CARPHA) is proud to hitch its companions, the Caribbean Tourism Group (CTO), the Caribbean Lodge and Tourism Affiliation (CHTA) and different regional tourism stakeholders in celebrating Caribbean Tourism Month 2024. Noticed every November, this yr’s theme, “ONE CARIBBEAN: Constructing a Resilient Future,” highlights the area’s dedication to unity, restoration, and sustainable improvement, strengthening the Caribbean tourism sector’s resilience and sustainability for generations to come.
Tourism stays the lifeblood of Caribbean economies, making the area one of the crucial tourism-dependent on the earth. Nevertheless, the rise in worldwide journey sadly additionally will increase the danger of introduction of rising ailments, akin to COVID-19. This actuality, mixed with the truth that the Caribbean area consists of small island growing states (SIDs) which have extremely interconnected and porous borders and are more and more weak to local weather change and pure disasters, impacts on the resilience of the area’s tourism product. Regardless of these challenges, Caribbean tourism has demonstrated exceptional resilience. The area’s tourism sector led the world in restoration charges, welcoming roughly 32.2 million guests in 2023.
CARPHA, by its novel Regional Tourism and Well being Program (THP), supported by CTO and CHTA, performs an important position in advancing the well being, security, and sustainability of Caribbean tourism by strengthening well being and security measures to advertise safer, more healthy experiences for each residents and guests.
Dr. Lisa Indar, Advert Interim Government Director of CARPHA, remarked, “As we rejoice Caribbean Tourism Month, CARPHA stays devoted to advancing well being and security for each residents and guests. The implementation of the THP within the Caribbean gives the area with a definite and aggressive benefit over different locations as a measurable more healthy safer vacation spot. Guests now have the liberty of selecting a tourism vacation spot or entity with a THP ‘More healthy Safer Tourism Award’ – an award granted to an entity that has implemented proactive health and safety measures.”
The THP is an internationally acknowledged programme that makes use of a complete strategy to boost well being, security, and environmental requirements throughout the Caribbean. Via a real-time confidential monitoring and response system, capability constructing, well being and security tips, operational requirements, and partnerships, the THP goals to bolster traveller confidence and create a sustainable, resilient tourism product. This multi-sectoral program is a primary of its type globally, setting a brand new normal for tourism security and well being, and contributing to a resilient Caribbean tourism sector.
