President Nicola Madden-Greig experiences sturdy purchaser curiosity in landmark tourism assembly.
KINGSTON, JAMAICA – The forty second staging of the Caribbean Lodge and Tourism Affiliation (CHTA)’s Caribbean Journey Market, scheduled to happen on the Montego Bay Conference Heart from Might 20-23, 2024, will function new new additions and three devoted tracks, promising an much more dynamic and interesting expertise for attendees.
Throughout a current “Caribbean Fireworks” press convention in Kingston, CHTA President Nicola Madden-Greig acknowledged, “This yr we will likely be taking the occasion to a brand new stage with three distinct tracks – The Enterprise of Tourism: within the type of the Caribbean Journey Discussion board; the Advertising and marketing of Tourism: CHTA Caribbean Journey Market; and the Neighborhood of Tourism: with our first ever Accountable Tourism Day.”
Caribbean Journey Market will kick off with the Caribbean Journey Discussion board on Might 20, specializing in “Visioning a New Tourism Panorama for the Caribbean”. The discussion board will function an awards luncheon to honor the Caribbean Hotelier of the Yr and current Vacation spot Resilience honors and the President’s Award for Excellence in Caribbean Tourism.
Accountable Tourism Day, which can coincide with Jamaica’s Labour Day on Might 23, will embrace a give attention to addressing local weather change, sustainable growth, and agricultural linkages to emphasise accountable stewardship of tourism communities.
CHTA President Nicola Madden-Greig, OD ultimately week’s press convention.
Madden-Greig highlighted the introduction of a devoted Conferences, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions (MICE) itinerary for the primary time, with 20 assembly planners attending the inaugural Caribbean MICE Trade. She emphasised the numerous potential of the MICE market, which generated over US$900 billion globally in 2023 and is predicted to double by 2032. “It’s time for the Caribbean to give attention to getting an even bigger slice of that very important pie,” she asserted.
The occasion can even welcome 50 regional and worldwide media representatives, a handful of whom will take part within the first multi-destination media familiarization journey to the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Cayman Islands, aimed toward showcasing the wealthy cultural variety of those nations and selling multi-destination journey inside the Caribbean.
Madden-Greig reported that 150 purchaser firms are anticipated to attend Market with important curiosity from Asia, Europe, and Latin America. So far, 86 purchaser firms have registered, surpassing the quantity from final yr’s occasion by greater than double at this stage. Amongst these, 14 new firms from nations together with Estonia, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, the UK, and the US have registered.
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