PowerPoint presentation by McHale Andrew, CTO/CRSTDP Advisor at the CTO/CRSTDP Statistics and Information Management Workshop, October 2005. Download
Best Practices in Tourism Information Managment
Part 1 - Introduction, Objectives & Methodology; Defining community based tourism
Part 2- Developments in Community based tourism; critical factors; lessons learnt; overview of critical factors
Part 3 , - Dominica case studies
Part 4 - Dominican Republic & Jamaica case studies
Part 5 - St. Lucia case studies
Part 6 : - Trinidad case studies
Part 7 - Additional information
This manual is an output of the 8th European Development Fund (EDF) Caribbean Regional Sustainable Tourism Development Programme (CRSTDP), which is a five-year (2003-2008) programme funded by the European Union. The overall objective of the Programme is to contribute to economic growth and poverty alleviation in the 15 CARIFORUM states through increased competitiveness and sustainability of the Caribbean tourism sector. CARIFORUM comprises Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Part 1 - Tourism and the local economy-building linkages; Bringing local producers into the supply chain; Building links with local farmers; Employing local staff
Part 2 - Involving local people in products, tours & packages; Encouraging tourists to spend in the local economy; Building neighbourhood partnerships;
Part 3 - Managing internal change for developing local linkages; Appendix
The purpose of these good practice guidelines is to assist tourism companies to contribute more to the local economy. The intended audience is tourism businesses of various sizes and operational types. Other guidelines already describe the ‘what and why’ of more responsible or sustainable tourism. These guidelines focus on practical tips on how to do it.
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Caribbean Tourism Legislation Database is intended primarily as a service to CTO members, although clearly it will also be of assistance to the numerous academic institutions and individual researchers who make use of the Organization’s Documentation Centre. It is meant to serve as a ready and easy-to-use reference source on regional tourism legislation available at CTO Headquarters for consultation. This first edition of the database contains 187 pieces of tourism-related legislation from 20 member countries. It is not a complete coverage of all CTO member countries; nor is it a full compendium of tourism legislation in the Caribbean. But it is perhaps the largest collection of its kind and, to that extent, it is also a unique resource.