Bartlett Again Calls For A Global Tourism Resilience Fund  

• Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has renewed his call for the establishment of a global resilience fund to aid in boosting tourism.
• Mr Bartlett said the initiative would encourage tourists to take personal responsibility for bolstering the ability to respond, mitigate, adapt, and recover from the impacts of climate-related shocks.
• He was addressing the joint 5th Urban Economy Forum and 59th ISOCARP World Planning Congress which ended on Thursday.
• Bartlett said it is important for Small Island Developing States, including Jamaica, to receive international support in their efforts to build resilience and pursue sustainable development in the face of these extraordinary challenges.
• The proposed fund would offer support to tourist-dependent destinations by helping these countries to respond to their own crises and disasters. Each country would manage its own tourism resilience fund and employ the resources to enforce its tourism resilience, thus guaranteeing the sustainability of international travel and tourism.

(Source: RJR News)