At a time when the OECS Secretariat is redirecting its work programs, with a view to bringing the OECS Economic Union into effect, OECS Tourism Ministers have focused their agenda on the strategic analysis of the single OECS tourism space.

Investing in the Caribbean region’s tourism sector will be the focus of a power breakfast this June, presented by the Caribbean Tourism Organization and Hard Beat Communications, Inc., in collaboration with the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The thousands of tour operators, journalists and travel suppliers attending the U.S. Travel Association’s International Pow Wow in San Francisco on May 21-25, 2011, will discover a very different city from the one they experienced when International Pow Wow was last held here in 1992.

Bucuti & Tara Beach Resorts owner and Chief Environmental Officer (CEO), Ewald Biemans, will be a featured speaker and panelist during the Green Globe Summit taking place May 27-30, 2011 in Paris, France. This global event brings together the world’s most important thinkers, industry leaders and activists to present their ideas, innovations and best practices for a more sustainable tourism industry.

Cancun is ready in case the Organizing Committee considers the destination as the future host of Mexico’s largest tradeshow, the Tianguis Turistico. Organizers of the tradeshow have recently decided to move its location from Acapulco. Cancun CVB chief Jesus Almaguer told organizers the best destinations to host Tianguis are Cancun and Riviera Maya.

Guyana will host the 13th annual Caribbean conference on sustainable tourism development next year. Bermuda’s director of tourism William Griffith passed the symbolic sustainable tourism scroll to the deputy director of the Guyana Tourism Authority, Tameca Sukhdeo-Singh, at the closing of STC-12 in Bermuda on April 6th.