Published on : Friday, September 14, 2018
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, delivered the keynote address at the opening ceremony. The theme of the Summit was ‘Tourism Resilience through Global Synergies’.
Stakeholders from Jamaica, the Caribbean and wider Americas attended the Summit, which was spearheaded by the Ministry of Tourism, in partnership with the UWI.
The summit was held to build resilience across the Caribbean and globally to what Portfolio Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, said to counter wide-ranging disruptive challenges to the tourism industry. These include climate change, cybercrime, epidemics and pandemics, and terrorism.
The Summit will also serve as a precursor to next year’s official launch of the Government’s Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre, which will be housed at the UWI’s Mona Campus.
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