United Nations World Tourism Group (UNWTO) Secretary Common Zurab Pololikashvili will take part within the extremely anticipated second World Tourism Resilience Convention in Montego Bay, St James, from February 16 to 17.
The 2-day convention will probably be staged within the coronary heart of the bustling tourism capital on the Montego Bay Conference Centre.
The World Tourism Resilience Convention will embrace panel discussions, networking alternatives, shows and full of life debates on issues of constructing resilience in tourism. This group of specialists of their collective fields will collect to collaboratively focus on points which might be central to future-proofing journey and tourism to varied disruptions shifting ahead.
“We’re setting the stage for one more mega convention geared in direction of safeguarding our most precious tourism trade. Constructing the capability to answer and get better from disruptions has develop into much more essential and the matters and professional ideas that will probably be shared over two days will contribute to our resilience constructing,” mentioned Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett.
HE Zurab Pololikashvili will probably be a key professional on the primary day of the convention on Friday, February 16, on a panel that will probably be exploring ‘Funding Tourism Resilience’.
The panel can even embrace Dr Nigel Clarke, Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Jamaica; Sergio Díaz-Granados, Government President Growth Financial institution of Latin America and the Caribbean Ladies in tourism Resilience; Oscar Avalle, Nation Consultant, El Salvador and Northern Caribbean, Growth Financial institution of Latin America and the Caribbean; Dona RegisProsper, Secretary-Common, Caribbean Tourism Group and Nataliya Mylenko, Lead Economist for the Caribbean, World Financial institution.
“I’m trying ahead to contributing to this convention which isn’t nearly navigating challenges however about collectively shaping a future the place locations thrive amidst adversity, turning resilience into alternative,” mentioned HE Zurab Pololikashvili.
The primary world tourism resilience convention was held on the College of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica final yr.
“The World Tourism Resilience and Disaster Administration Centre continues to be a beacon of tourism resilience and this convention is an extra step in the correct route in constructing capability. World disruptions have proven the necessity for us to construct capability in tourism because it stays one of the weak industries,” mentioned Government Director of the World Tourism Resilience and Disaster Administration Centre, Professor Lloyd Waller.
As a part of the convention agenda, on February 17, World Tourism Resilience Day will probably be celebrated for the second time, recognizing the official adoption by the United Nations on February 6, 2022, of the decision to watch the day annually. There can even be a tourism resilience awards gala to acknowledge people and organisations which have contributed to- constructing tourism resilience globally.
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