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CTO
SECRETARY GENERAL WANTS REGION’S BRIGHTEST INVOLVED IN
TOURISM |
-- Delegates
attending 3rd Tourism HR Conference told it’s the only way
the Caribbean can remain competitive --
POINTE A PITRE, Guadeloupe (June 28, 2007) – The
Secretary General of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO),
Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, has made a strong plea for the
region’s brightest to get involved in the tourism industry.
Mr. Vanderpool-Wallace told delegates attending the 3rd
Tourism Human Resources Conference at the Arawak Hotel here
that while tourism is the Caribbean’s most important sector,
it is not the industry of choice for most of the region’s
best brains. |
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However, he said,
the Caribbean cannot take full advantage of the “natural
advantage” it has in tourism if the brightest people avoid
the industry.
“We have a natural advantage in the area of tourism. Tourism
chose us, we didn’t choose tourism,” the Secretary General
said. “The world told us ‘you guys are very good at
tourism,’ let’s listen to it and begin to do those things
that are very important for us to get better.
“If this is the most important part of our industry we have
to get the best people we have involved in the industry. We
have to identify them, select them, recruit them, then train
them in addition to the people who are already here.”
The CTO boss stressed that the region is facing mounting
competition from other tourism destinations and “the best of
our citizens” must be involved globally in order to
successfully face this competition.
More than 75 delegates from across the region are
participating in the three-day conference, organised by the
CTO in collaboration with the Guadeloupe Tourist Board,
the Guadeloupe Hospitality Institute and the Regional
Council of Guadeloupe.
Themed, “Leading Change in Tourism Within a
Dynamic, Global Environment,” the 3rd Tourism Human
Resources Conference targets tourism and hospitality
educators, trainers, human resource
professionals/consultants and managers with responsibility
for human resources across the region.
It is funded in part by the European Union within the
framework of the Caribbean Regional Sustainable Tourism
Development Programme. |
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