Up to date: Jun 21, 2024 03:38 PM
Owen Darrell, the Minister of Tourism, Tradition and Sport with Donna Regis-Prosper, the Secretary Common of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation ({Photograph} equipped)
Regional leaders heard about developments in Bermuda’s tourism trade throughout a weeklong occasion in New York lately.
Owen Darrell, the Minister of Tourism, Tradition and Sport attended Caribbean Week, which was hosted by the Caribbean Tourism Organisation marking its thirty fifth anniversary, the Authorities stated.
Held underneath the theme Connecting the Globe, Celebrating Range, the occasion introduced collectively the area’s tourism representatives and trade leaders.
A authorities assertion stated that Mr Darrell had talks with regional leaders and highlighted “the numerous strides” the Bermuda Tourism Authority has made to market the island globally.
Discussions included “participating conversations on the airline and cruise trade developments”.
Mr Darrell stated: “Bermuda’s relationship with the CTO is integral to our tourism growth.
“We collaborate and share methods to maneuver ahead collectively as main regional locations. We accomplish much more collectively than we will aside.
“I’m inspired by the extent of engagement between ministers and tourism commissioners at trade conferences, together with the CTO’s flagship occasion, which builds investor confidence in our tourism product in the long term.”
He added: “The way forward for tourism for Bermuda is shiny.
“We count on accelerated development in customer arrivals and the event of participating tourism merchandise on the island to cater to a various vary of travellers.”
Mr Darrell took half in a number of occasions throughout his journey, together with a enterprise and tourism advertising and marketing symposium, Caribbean Tourism: Shaping the Future, which highlighted the newest market traits directing the area.
The federal government assertion stated: “There was additionally a discussion board centered on the trade’s trajectory with respect to leveraging the usage of synthetic intelligence in tourism advertising and marketing.”
The discussion board included shows from I. Chester Cooper, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism of The Bahamas, Edmund Bartlett, the Minister of Tourism in Jamaica, and Kenneth Bryan, the Minister of Tourism and Ports for the Cayman Islands, and the CTO chairman.
The assertion added that Mr Bryan lately visited the island for Bermuda Day festivities as a part of a regional cultural change.
Samal Duggins, the Minister of the Inventive Economic system, Leisure, and the Arts of St Kitts & Nevis additionally attended the Bermuda Day occasions.