Jamaica to Benefit from Hosting UNWTO Summit

• Jamaica is to benefit from hosting the upcoming United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Summit on Innovation, Resilience and Crisis Management.
• According to Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, the focus on resilience tops global agendas, and it is through capacity enhancement that the country will be able to respond meaningfully to “global disruptions that are coming at us daily”.
• “The response has to be not only just sustainability but resilience. It is to build capacity to be able to trap them (disruptions), to recover quickly from them, to build better, so that you can thrive,” the Minister said.
• The Minister also noted that start-ups will be a big feature at the Summit. “We are going to be looking at examples of start-ups in the Caribbean, and Jamaica as well,” adding that a number of young people from Jamaica will be showcasing their experience with start-ups at the Summit. 

(Source: JIS)