Bruce Poon Tip to Keynote Caribbean Event for World Tourism Day

Caribbean News…
20 September 2021 8:50pm
Bruce Poon Tip

One of the world’s most recognizable tourism entrepreneurs, the Trinidad-born Canadian Bruce Poon Tip, will seek to help the region visualize and plan the future of tourism when he delivers the keynote address at a special virtual conference in observance of World Tourism Day on 27 September.

Themed, “The Future of Caribbean Tourism - Redefining the three S’s”, the day-long event – an unprecedented collaborative effort among nearly a dozen agencies and institutions related to tourism and key ancillary sectors - brings together a wide range of stakeholders across the tourism spectrum to discuss the outlook for the region’s primary revenue earner.

In presenting the keynote address, Poon Tip, a world-renowned advocate for sustainable tourism and environmental protection, will discuss three priority areas for the region: social inclusion, sustainability, and smart destinations and businesses.

“I am so encouraged about the direction and steps the Caribbean Tourism Organization and regional partners are taking to build travel back better in the region following the global pandemic. Community tourism is an incredible way to help make a difference and has the potential to have a hugely positive impact for the Caribbean and those who live there, when done right,” said the founder of G Adventures, the world's largest small group adventure travel company and pioneer of community tourism.

“I am humbled to be able to contribute to the conversation and hope that together we can all help change more lives through travel. As a proud, Trinidadian-born, travel professional and social entrepreneur, I am honoured to have been invited to speak and I look forward to connecting with the wider Caribbean tourism community," added Poon Tip, one of Canada’s most admired CEOs in social entrepreneurship, and the man behind Planeterra, G Adventures’ nonprofit partner, which harnesses the power of the tourism supply chain to channel travellers’ dollars into underserved communities around the world.

Organizers of the virtual event include the Caribbean Tourism Organization, The University of the West Indies, Association of Caribbean States, Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association, Caribbean Public Health Agency, Compete Caribbean Partnership Facility, Global Tourism Resilience & Crisis Management Centre, Inter-American Development Bank, Organisation of American States, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, and the United Nations Development Programme for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.

To register for the event visit: https://bit.ly/3AcqZhX. For further information, visit   https://bit.ly/3AsWS5J.

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