Each year, Caribbean Week — a largest informal tourism eventuality in New York — is filled with events for both a tourism attention and consumers. The many critical objectives of a jubilee are:
• Meetings and a business of Caribbean Tourism
• Engaging a Caribbean Diaspora
• Providing a height for sales of Caribbean vacations
• Creating an event for member countries to take advantage of a spotlight on a region
At a press discussion on Thursday, a Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) expelled a year-to-date Caribbean tourism numbers — and things are looking good. There has been fast expansion in arrivals in a initial entertain of 2015, adult 6 percent over 2014 and it’s a fifth uninterrupted year of growth. The segment also strike a chronological high for hotel occupancy in a 1st quarter: 77.8 percent. Both investment in a segment and journey arrivals are adult as well.
But expansion in and of itself is not a aim — a segment needs tolerable growth, in both a ecosystem and economics. Nine Caribbean countries are now partial of a Sustainable Destinations Alliance for a Americas, a tellurian NGO and public/private zone partnership, focusing on progressing and restoring a region’s natural, informative and mercantile integrity. Each nation faces opposite hurdles and a Alliance’s regionalized proceed to problem-solving will be key.
Plenty of Caribbean cuisine was accessible via a week. The Caribbean Chef Program hosted tastings, demonstrations and cooking classes during locations around a city including Williams-Sonoma and Bloomingdales. The Rum and Rhythm Benefit and Auction offering a far-reaching array of culinary offerings to attendees during Tribeca Three-Sixty.
Of course, this year a Caribbean nation on everyone’s mind is Cuba. However for many of a universe Cuba tourism is not a new thing. Cuba has enjoyed clever arrivals from Canada and Europe for many years. Now Americans are penetrating to visit, and while there is still time indispensable for adjustment, any CTO member nation attracting new visitors is a good thing for a whole region. Jet Blue is expanding a moody offerings within a segment including a licence moody from New York to Havana, as good as new routes to Antigua and Barabados.
Caribbean Tourism Organization, www.onecaribbean.org
Caribbean Week in New York, www.caribbeanweek.com
