CARIBBEAN: Professor Nettleford For Tourism confab In USVI

Professor Nettleford For Tourism confab In USVI – Talk Tourism - Thursday 25, 
September-2003
by Cheryl Harewood 

Well-known and dynamic Caribbean scholar, trade union educator, social and 
cultural historian and Rhodes Scholar Professor Rex Nettleford, will be the 
keynote speaker at the 26th annual Caribbean Tourism Conference (CTC-26) 
which takes place at the Marriott’ Frenchman’s Reef Hotel, in St Thomas, 
United States Virgin Islands from October 16 to 18. 

According to Johnson Johnrose, communications specialist at Caribbean Tourism 
Organisation, Professor Nettleford is expected to enthuse, animate and 
inspire hundreds of travel agents, regional dignitaries, tourism industry 
partners and regional and international media with a stimulating address that 
will set the pace for the conference, themed: Recovery And Growth In A 
Fiercely Competitive Environment. 

Caribbean tourism professionals will explore various strategies to build on 
the positive signs of recovery that are emerging in the region’s tourism 
industry during the conference, considered the Caribbean region’s premier 
tourism educational and networking event, the Caribbean Tourism Conference. 

The Caribbean’s tourism industry has shown some signs of recovery after two 
difficult years, with stayover arrivals to the region increasing by an 
estimated seven per cent during the winter of 2003 over the same period last 
year, while cruise passenger visits were up approximately five per cent. 

Packed with dynamic speakers, seminars and workshops, CTC-26 will focus on 
practical approaches to sustaining and building on this recovery. 

CTC-26 is organised by CTO in collaboration with the USVI Department of 
Tourism. 


SOURCE: Barbados Nation