These will be among the questions at the 14th Annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development, which officially begins in Port of Spain, Trinidad on Monday. The event, which is organized by the Caribbean Tourism Organization, first launched in 1997. Last year’s event was held in Guyana.

“The cruise industry needs to play its part in fighting visa bureaucracy and deterring more taxation,” according to World Travel & Tourism Council president David Scowsill. Speaking at the Cruise Shipping Miami Conference, Scowsill complimented the cruise sector for making a vital and rapidly growing contribution to the global tourism industry.

Haiti will be the host country for the Caribbean’s regional CARIFESTA cultural festival in 2015, the country’s Ministries of Culture and Tourism said on Tuesday. CARIFESTA, the Caribbean Festival of the Arts, is being hosted in Suriname this year, following a five-year hiatus. Suriname also hosted the event in 2003.

That will be the strong message from world-renowned environmental speakers to more than eight hundred senior private and public executives from the tourism industry at the World Travel & Tourism Council Global Summit in Abu Dhabi.

The Caribbean Tourism Organization has been staging its Annual Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development, also known as the Sustainable Tourism Conference (STC) since 1997. This is a Conference from which everyone involved in tourism in the Caribbean travel industry can benefit from.

CULTOURFAIR’s, International Cultural Travel Fair 2013 edition will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, October 2nd to 4th, sponsored by Guadalajara Convention & Visitors Bureau, inviting international wholesaler companies and travel agencies to attend as hosted buyers.