They got here from all around the Caribbean, high-level tourism thinkers gathered in Grand Cayman to debate what’s subsequent for the Caribbean’s most vital trade.
However no, I’m not speaking in regards to the Tourism Ministers, administrators and executives on the CTO’s State of the Business convention, which was held on the island final week.
These have been 12 younger tourism advocates from all throughout the area, introduced collectively for a singular occasion held in the course of the coronary heart of SOTIC: the Caribbean Tourism Group’s Regional Tourism Youth Congress.
For greater than 20 years, this particular occasion has introduced collectively secondary faculty college students, “dubbed “Junior Tourism Ministers,” to speak about the way forward for tourism within the Caribbean, with new concepts and modern options.
This yr was no totally different, in an occasion offered by Tropical Delivery on the Westin Grand Cayman resort.
The Congress, held beneath the theme of “By way of the Eyes of Tomorrow,” explored all the things from solo journeys to journey tourism and the more and more vital blue financial system.
The winner? Keyana Warner of Nevis, who was joined within the high three finishers by Anthurium Lewis from Tobago and Khari Gonsalves from St Kitts.
“The Congress, together with the actions main as much as this occasion, performs a vital function in introducing the following era to the numerous affect tourism has on our area,” mentioned Grasp of Ceremonies Sharon Banfield-Bovell, CTO’s Director of Useful resource Mobilization and Improvement. “It’s not only a competitors; it’s a gateway to nurturing the following era of tourism advocates and innovators who will form the way forward for the Caribbean tourism trade.”
