In a groundbreaking achievement for Caribbean tourism, Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has turn out to be the primary lodge chain to have all 19 of its resorts awarded the Caribbean Public Well being Company’s (CARPHA) More healthy Safer Tourism (HST) travellers’ well being assurance award. The group additionally obtained designation as a More healthy Safer Tourism Vacation spot, cementing its management in prioritizing public well being and security throughout the area.
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The HST plaques had been introduced by Dr. Lisa Indar, Govt Director of CARPHA, throughout a ceremony titled “Celebrating Excellence in More healthy and Safer Tourism” held at Sandals Montego Bay. The occasion honored people and establishments driving well being and security in Caribbean tourism.
“CARPHA has a long-standing, private and non-private relationship with SRI, collaborating since 2012 on selling well being and security in tourism,” Dr. Indar mentioned. “This historic milestone underscores SRI’s unwavering dedication to tourism well being, security, and environmental duty throughout the Caribbean in addition to demonstrates its novel, trusting, robust partnership with CARPHA. Mr. Adam Stewart, Govt Chairman of SRI, totally endorsed the HST award in 2022 as a crucial characteristic in holding the Caribbean Safer and More healthy. At this time, fittingly, SRI is the primary resort chain with all its resorts receiving this auspicious award, giving Sandals the distinctive recognition of a more healthy, safer vacation spot. It’s not simply one other award, however a exceptional recognition concerning Tourism Well being and Security. The SRI model has now offered tangible proof of SRI enhancing its repute as a more healthy, safer vacation spot, growing its aggressive benefit over non-HST tourism entities.”
The HST award, launched in 2020 underneath CARPHA’s Tourism and Well being Program (THP), is designed to acknowledge tourism companies that actively implement well being surveillance techniques, practice employees in illness prevention, and decide to meals and environmental security. The award is supported by regional and world companions together with the Caribbean Tourism Group (CTO), the Caribbean Lodge and Tourism Affiliation (CHTA), and the World Tourism Resilience and Disaster Administration Centre (GTRCMC).
Every Sandals resort met the award standards by registering and actively reporting via CARPHA’s confidential Tourism and Well being Info System (THiS), and by certifying not less than 10% of frontline employees in infectious illness prevention. Greater than 1,500 workforce members throughout Sandals’ properties have accomplished the coaching thus far.
Jeremy Jones, Regional Managing Director of SRI, emphasised the significance of the partnership: “CARPHA gives a secure setting for reporting and helps the hospitality and tourism trade within the most-tourism dependent area on this planet as a result of at any time when one thing goes incorrect with tourism within the Caribbean, all of us get nervous; all of us begin to surprise what’s the finest resolution and what CARPHA does for our resorts is to supply that degree of security and luxury. I need to thank Dr. Indar for the work she has achieved in offering a more healthy, safer choice for Sandals Resorts Worldwide.”
Gavin Palmer, Company Supervisor of Surroundings, Well being and Security at SRI, highlighted the collaborative journey: “Our long-standing relationship with CARPHA has performed a useful function in serving to us to champion the tradition of well being, security and well-being throughout all our resorts. Collectively we’ve got strengthened our techniques, empowered our workforce members and set excessive requirements to make sure that our visitors, workforce members and neighborhood members are at all times protected. This ongoing collaboration reminds us that well being and security aren’t simply insurance policies, they’re shared commitments that carry us collectively, encourage confidence and construct a stronger extra resilient tourism trade. Thanks as soon as once more CARPHA.”
With this milestone, Sandals units a brand new benchmark for regional tourism well being assurance, serving to increase traveler confidence whereas reinforcing the Caribbean’s repute as a premier — and now licensed safer — vacation spot.
