Jamaica was home to the region’s first joint World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) event in over 10 years at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort and Spa, Ocho Rios this past weekend.
St. Maarten has announced that international travel to meetings and conventions held in the Dutch colony are now 100 percent tax deductible for U.S. companies.
Five months ahead of the event and with 24 confirmed exhibitors, the MPI Technology Village @ EIBTM has now sold out. The Events Services Village @ EIBTM will accommodate 21 exhibitors this year, representing an increase of 30 percent compared to EIBTM 2006 and over half of the stands have already been booked.
The Regional Policy Dialogue on Tourist Safety and Security, organized jointly by the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) and the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA), with the technical and financial support of PROINVEST, commenced Thursday at the Cascadia Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Eight leading international experts in the responsible tourism sector are joining forces on an advisory panel set up by World Travel Market to support the inaugural WTM World Responsible Tourism Day on 14 November, 2007.
The Caribbean tourism sector can no longer be content with the traditional sea, sun and sand and the industry must contribute to the quality of life of the region’s peoples, tourism human resource professionals and managers were told late last week.