One Earth One Family: Travel and Tourism -Serving a Higher Purpose is the theme of the 3rd Global Summit on Peace through Tourism being held at the Royal Cliff Beach Resort, Pattaya, Thailand, October 2 to 5.
The aim of the Summit is to develop a 21st Century Agenda for Peace through Tourism that addresses key global issues of our time.
The recently held 9th Caribbean Hotel Tourism Investment Conference (CHTIC) in Barbados has set the platform for a major investment boom in Caribbean tourism, stressed Bethia Parle, President of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA).
Ms Parle extolled the attendance and participation at the three-day conference last week as one of the best, with the association registering a record participation of companies and delegates.
New Yorkers dreaming of a Caribbean vacation will be exposed to one full week of the region’s pleasurable lifestyle during the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s (CTO) Caribbean Week 2005, from May 29 to June 4.
The weeklong series of consumer focused events and business meetings will offer thousands of New Yorkers and visitors to the city, a feel of life in the tropics, CTO has assured.
Some 150 travel and tourism wholesalers from 16 countries will huddle in Costa Rica´s EXPOTUR with a view to do business with impresarios from that Central American nation.
EXPOTUR is Latin America´s largest travel mart that gathers wholesalers interested in selling the Central American region as a travel destination. The event also pursues the opening of new markets and product diversification.
The Turks and Caicos Tourist Board, in association with BET Event Productions, has announced that the Islands´ Second Annual Music and Cultural Festival is scheduled for July 25-August 1, 2005 on the island of Providenciales.
Confirmed artists scheduled to perform include reggae dancehall pop star Shaggy, chart-topping RandB vocalist Ashanti, funky soul singer Jeffrey Osborne, legendary “cool” voice of reggae Gregory Isaacs, number one Haitian dance band Tabou Combo, gospel/disco queen Candi Staton, contemporary gospel crooner BeBe Winans, as well as some of the Turks and Caicos´ top local artists.
The President of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA), Berthia Parle, has warned that the regional tourism industry could collapse if investments were geared primarily towards hotel rooms without the requisite investment in human capital.
Ms Parle told the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Investment Conference (CHIC) and PROFIT Partnership meeting held in Bridgetown, Barbados, this week, that while investment in the human resource capacity of the Caribbean is not normally considered, it is the glue that holds it all together.