Caribbean Tourism sets students a sustainability challenge

CTO-USA Dir­ect­or Sylma Brown said: “Tour­ism edu­ca­tion is a crit­ic­al ele­ment of sus­tain­ab­il­ity in the Carib­bean and the CTO is com­mit­ted to ensur­ing that the bright­est and best lead the tour­ism industry into the future.”

Five schools will par­ti­cip­ate in the con­test, which will take place in New York at the sev­enth annu­al Carib­bean Stu­dents Col­loqui­um, June 7.

Each mem­ber of the win­ning team will received com­pli­ment­ary regis­tra­tion to the 2017 Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Con­fer­ence in St. Kitts, a trophy, and the title of 2017 Stu­dent Col­loqui­um Champion.

Brown said: “The Stu­dents Col­loqui­um allows stu­dents to shine and share their best ideas and ori­gin­al case studies.”

The event is part of Carib­bean Week New York (#CWNY17), June 4 – 10.

Full story at Hos­pit­al­ity Net.

Good for us. Better for all.

CTO is also part­ner­ing with St Kitts to host the Cli­mate Smart Sus­tain­able Tour­ism For­um, “Good for Us, Bet­ter for All”, Septem­ber 6 – 8.

St Kitts is one of the first des­tin­a­tions in the world to be accep­ted as an early adop­ter of the Glob­al Sus­tain­able Tour­ism Council’s cri­ter­ia for destinations.

It is also a found­ing mem­ber of the Sus­tain­able Des­tin­a­tion Alli­ance of the Amer­icas, the Organ­iz­a­tion of Amer­ic­an States, and Sus­tain­able Travel International.

What is the Caribbean Tourism Organization?

Accord­ing to its web­site, the Carib­bean Tour­ism Organ­iz­a­tion (CTO) is “the region’s tour­ism devel­op­ment agency, with 28 Dutch, Eng­lish, French and Span­ish coun­try mem­bers and a myri­ad of private sec­tor allied mem­bers. The CTO’s vis­ion is to pos­i­tion the Carib­bean as the most desir­able, year round, warm weath­er des­tin­a­tion. Its pur­pose is Lead­ing Sus­tain­able Tour­ism – One Sea, One Voice, One Caribbean.”