The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, will be the one to inaugurate the 41st edition of the Caribbean Travel Marketplace.

The speech will mark the opening of the annual Caribbean Travel Forum, at the Sandals Royal Barbados hotel under the theme "Tourism: The Key Driver of Generational Wealth for Caribbean Citizens."

The Caribbean Travel Forum focuses on the tourism business in the Caribbean with discussions of current issues such as multi-destination marketing, intra-Caribbean travel with an emphasis on air connectivity, sustainability, technological innovation, labor market concerns , taxes and tourist links.

Mia Mottley will encourage captains of the travel industry, CEOs, thought leaders and government officials to take advantage of the Caribbean Travel Marketplace, hosting Barbados for the first time, to showcase the strengths, resilience and attractiveness of the Caribbean region at a global level. world. buyers, media and potential investors.

In addition to the business round and appointments at the Travel Marketplace, press conferences from Barbados, Jamaica, US Virgin Islands, Dominica, Margaritaville Beach Resort Nassau, the Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board were announced on the first day. Other destinations, such as Antigua and Barbuda, Turks and Caicos, St. Kitts, Anguilla, will also offer their news to the specialized press.

Another topic to be discussed is Crisis Management and Global Tourism Resilience and CHTA, a few days after the WHO determined that the COVID pandemic has ended.
 

Three regional tourism ministers have confirmed their participation, including Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) President Kenneth Bryan, who is also the Cayman Islands Minister of Tourism and Ports; the Jamaican Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett; and Host Minister Ian Gooding Edghill, Minister of Tourism and International Transport of Barbados.

 
 Nicola Madden-Greig, CHTA President, will deliver a keynote address on the state of the industry and the region, while Olivier Ponti, Vice President of Insights for ForwardKeys, will share the latest data on how the Caribbean stacks up against the rest. of the world. Panels focusing on public-private partnerships, destination resilience and the impact of technology on tourism are expected to feature lively and solution-oriented discussions.

Other confirmed speakers for the Forum include Avinash Persaud, Special Advisor to Prime Minister Mottley; Charlie Osmond, co-founder of Triptease; Crescenzia Biemans, General Director of Public Relations and Legal for Bucuti and Tara Beach Resort; John Byles, Managing Partner of Chukka Caribbean Adventures; Kyle Mais, President of the Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST); Marie McKenzie, Senior Vice President of Destination and Government Affairs for Carnival Corporation; Neil Foster, President of Hospitality Finance and Technology Professionals (HFTP); Sanovnik Destang, CEO of Bay Gardens Resorts; Dr. Shelly-Ann Cox, Director of Fisheries for Barbados; and Vanessa Ledesma, CHTA Interim CEO and CEO.