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OAS and Jamaica to Host High-Level Policy Forum on Tourism Resilience

  July 18, 2022

The Organization of American States (OAS), the Ministry of Tourism of Jamaica, as the Chair of the Inter-American Committee on Tourism (CITUR) and the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association will host on July 20-21, the High-Level Forum for Building the Disaster Resilience of Small Tourism Enterprises (STE) in the Caribbean.

The event will explore how to build the resilience of STEs in the Caribbean to disasters, and will review and respond to the findings and recommendations from more than 500 enterprises and stakeholders to help accelerate business continuity in future crises.

During the two-day gathering, attendees will analyze ways to forge collaboration among all stakeholders, public and private entities, and small and big businesses.

The Forum will be inaugurated by the Minister of Tourism, Jamaica, Edmund Bartlett, the OAS Executive Secretary for Integral Development, Kim Osborne and the U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica, Nick Perry and will be one of the first activities of the CITUR’s Work Plan coming out of the Twenty-fifth Inter-American Congress of Ministers and High-level Authorities of Tourism held last October.


Press Contact: Gina Ochoa ([email protected]).

WHAT: High-Level Policy Forum on Tourism Resilience

WHEN: July 20 -21, 2022

WHERE: Holiday Inn Resort, Montego Bay, Jamaica

Reference: AVI-106/22