Tourism Resilience Roundtable and Workshop
Day：2024.03.14
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Overview
Tourism Resilience Roundtable and Workshop“Tourism Futures: Resilience, Sustainability, and Development”
Date: February 7-8, 2024
Sponsors: Global Tourism Resilience & Crisis Management Centre and JICA
Location:Kingston, Jamaica
Moderators and panelists
- Minister Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism for Jamaica and Founder/Co-Chair for the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre
- Prof. Lloyd G. Waller, Professor of Digital Transformation and Executive Director for Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre
- Mr.Masato Takamatsu, President of Tourism Resilience Japan
- Key stakeholders from the tourism industry and government agencies from Barbados, Belize, Dominican Republic, Guyana, St.Kitts, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica and Japan.
- Representatives from international organizations(CARICOM, CTO, CDEMA, UN Tourism(HDQ and RSOAP).
- Mitsuyoshi Kawasaki, Resident Representative and Ai Kurimoto, Representative from JICA Jamaica Office
- Naoki Matsumura, Special Advisor of Disaster Risk Reduction from JICA
Primary objectives and outcomes
While the Caribbean is dependent on tourism, it is also known as one of the most vulnerable regions to natural disasters and climate change. By sharing its experience and knowledge in disaster risk management in the tourism sector, Japan and JICA is trying to contribute to improve the tourism crisis management capacity in the Caribbean region.
The Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center (GTRCMC) is an organization established at the University of the West Indies (UWI) in 2018 with the objective of playing a central role in disseminating crisis management practices in the tourism industry in the Caribbean region.JICA is received a request of technical cooperation from Jamaican government and is implementing a two-year capacity development project with the aim of strengthening collaboration in tourism crisis management among Caribbean countries.
Group photo of workshop participants
The two-day program provided participants with the practical knowledge to develop country-specific and agency-specific strategies for tourism resilience with the assistance of Mr. Takamatsu. Furthermore, workshop participants jointly analyzed the possible impact on tourists and tourism businesses in the event of a disaster, etc., and developed a possible action plan, then considered and discussed how to ensure the safety of visitors and continue tourism businesses.
A scene from the workshop (center: Mr. Takamatsu, President of Tourism Resilience Japan)
A scene from the workshop
The results of the event were presented to UN Tourism and other stakeholders at the Global Tourism Resilience Day Conference on February 16-17, and the lessons learned will be used in the next year's training program.
Group photo of Global Tourism Resilience Day Conference
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