Jamaica Minister of Tourism continues his quest of guaranteeing Vacation spot Jamaica and the tourism sector stay prime of thoughts internationally.
The Hon. Edmund Bartlett departed for Germany on Sunday to be a key participant within the much-anticipated ITB Berlin Conference, now underway in Germany.
Having been impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic, that is the primary face-to-face staging of the world’s greatest journey conference because the onset of COVID-19 and is deliberate to showcase decisive tendencies and supply limitless alternatives for the journey enterprise.
The Berlin Conference, which runs from March 7-9, is the main journey trade assume tank, attracting tourism professionals, key determination makers, the foremost consumers and sellers within the worldwide journey commerce. “As the worldwide tourism sector continues to rebound from the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic we’re happy to have the ability to attend ITB Berlin in particular person, and we’ll use this chance to additional promote Vacation spot Jamaica, strengthen present partnerships and forge new ones as we search to foster continued development within the tourism sector,” Minister Bartlett mentioned.
The Minister’s participation will see him because the keynote speaker and panelist on the subject “New Narratives for Work in Journey.”
One of many highlights of Minister Bartlett’s participation sees him additionally giving the keynote deal with at an occasion celebrating International Tourism Resilience Day following final month’s approval by the United Nations for the day to be noticed every year. This after Jamaica’s efforts to bolster resilience in international tourism by proposing the official designation of February seventeenth as International Tourism Resilience Day yearly yielded nice success.
Mr. Bartlett’s itinerary additionally consists of quite a few high-level conferences on topic areas such because the: “International Employment Initiative,” new flights and different tourism developments. He will even take part in a number of media actions and applications in addition to a bilateral assembly with Minister of Tourism for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, His Excellency Ahmed Al Khateeb.
Moreover, Mr. Bartlett will likely be a particular visitor on the Pacific Space Journey Writers Affiliation (PATWA) Worldwide Journey Awards. On the ITB Conference in 2019, Jamaica was offered with PATWA’s award for vacation spot of the yr. The awards acknowledge people and organizations which have excelled and/or are concerned within the promotion of tourism from totally different sectors of the journey commerce and repair suppliers associated immediately or not directly to the trade.
Earlier than returning house on Saturday, March 11, the Minister will even meet with members of the Jamaican Neighborhood on the Embassy of Jamaica in Berlin.
