Tourism Delegation Completes Successful Inaugural visit to the UK
As restrictions on travel within the United Kingdom continue to ease, Minister for Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture, and Information - Hon. Dr. Ernest Hilaire took the opportunity to visit the UK and host tourism industry discussions for 2022.
Attending World Travel Market London, from November 1-3, 2021, one of the most important events on the global travel industry’s calendar, the delegation met with UK airline partners British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and TUI along with leading tour operators, agents, and media.
Throughout the visit, Dr. Hilaire shared tourism developments including destination updates and new information on accommodation and excursions...Read More
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CARIBBEAN NATIONALS RECEIVE TOURISM SCHOLARSHIPS
CHTA Education Foundation and Les Roches announce scholarship recipients
The recently announced professional development program for Caribbean hospitality professionals, launched by the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association Education Foundation (CHTAEF) and Les Roches, the hospitality management institution, has named two dozen Caribbean scholarship recipients.
Designed to accelerate the trajectory of participants’ hospitality careers, the program attracted more than 150 applicants over the summer.
Eleven candidates received a joint scholarship, which covers more than 75 percent of the program cost, and Les Roches offered a 50 percent bursary to an additional 13 candidates whose qualifications and potential could not be overlooked by the evaluation committee.
Candidates were selected from across the Caribbean and include hospitality professionals from both independent hotels and globally recognized branded hotels.
Scholarship recipients hail from Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Guyana, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago, and Turks & Caicos...Read More
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW FEATURE
Acacia Dostalie’s Eventful Life on the Job
Planning events is not as easy as the finished product looks and feels. In some cases, even a one-day event can take up to weeks from the strategizing to executing stages. Meticulous planning must go into the planning stages to ensure that the clients get what they paid for and were promised. The common stages are usually research, design, proposal, organization, coordination, and evaluation.
Sounds like fun, right? Well, it’s more work than fun, really.
For Acacia Dostalie, planning events takes up most of her days. For the past 11 years, she’s been employed as an Administrative Manager at Serenity Vacations and Tours, a local company that specializes in creating the ultimate vacation experience. Her daily duties include a great deal of emailing, phone calls, vacation planning for weddings, engagements, anniversaries, accommodations, tours, galas, and dinners...Read More
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For all the water lovers, there’s nothing better than an eight-hour boat tour with snorkeling, island history, drinks, and sightseeing.
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View the famous green flash! Watch the sunset from the deck of a private catamaran in St. Lucia and relax onboard a spacious boat.
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SAINT LUCIA GETS READY TO WELCOME THE 2021 ATLANTIC RALLY FOR CRUISERS AS WELL AS THE NEWLY INTRODUCED ARC JANUARY
Saint Lucia Tourism Authority (SLTA), in collaboration with Events Company of Saint Lucia Inc. (ECSL) and the IGY Rodney Bay Marina, guided by the Ministries of Tourism, and Health and Wellness, will welcome the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers fleets to Saint Lucia, commencing early December.
The ARC fleet, of approximately 150 boats, gathered in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria as of November 8th, 2021. Participants are scheduled to partake in several activities, including fun and learning activities for children, Informative Seminars, Emergency Response Management training, Skippers Briefing Conference, and the customary ARC Flag Raising Ceremony...Read More
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CORAL REEF PROJECT SEEKS TO EMPOWER YOUNG DIVERS
The St. Lucia divers association and the Saint Lucia Hospitality and Tourism Association are helping to create careers in scuba diving. The association has empowered some 10 youngsters with the tools to jump-start a career in scuba diving through its major coral reef restoration effort dubbed: “North Project’.
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Developing Team Leadership for Travel & Tourism in Uncertain Times
All too often tourism professionals talk about “partnerships and team leadership”, but unfortunately what many of them actually mean by that phrase is: “let’s see what you can do for me.”
Agency-centric tourism, however, in this period of weather-related crisis, wars, political upheavals and pandemics is becoming more and more difficult to manage successfully. After 2020–2021 when tourism took an international pause, industry leaders in every aspect of travel and tourism, both in the private sector and in the public sector, have learned that in today’s unstable market, communities and even entire nations need to work together toward a common good.
About the Author
Dr. Peter E. Tarlow is the President of T&M, a founder of the Texas chapter of TTRA and a popular author and speaker on tourism. Tarlow is a specialist in the areas of sociology of tourism, economic development, tourism safety and security. Tarlow speaks at governors’ and state conferences on tourism and conducts seminars throughout the world and for numerous agencies and universities...Read More
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U.N. climate summit heads into extra time as negotiators work to strike deal
The U.N. climate summit has officially blown past its Friday-evening deadline as leaders and negotiators continue to work to strike a deal that could spare the world the most dire effects of global warming.
The British government promised to host a carbon-neutral climate conference, but even after all the showy sustainability — the reusable coffee cups, the low-flush loos, the paperless draft documents, the locally-sourced vegetarian haggis — COP26 may be the highest emitting United Nations environmental summit so far...Read More
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