“My Caribbean” Essay Contest is an annual contest designed to introduce the benefits of tourism to children of the Caribbean, as well as broaden their spectrum of life’s opportunities. Each participant is required to write and submit one essay, approximately 250 words and no more than 500 hundred words, on different topics chosen each year. The annual contest is part of a tourism awareness program for school children between the ages of 8 and 12. The contest, sponsored by Condé Nast Traveler, the Caribbean Tourism Organization, and American Airlines, educates elementary school children in the Caribbean islands about the importance of tourism to their country’s economy.
Topic: Imagine you are the Minister of Tourism for your island. What would you do, and what projects could you create, to help bring locals and tourists closer together?”
Anguilla, Antigua, Aruba
Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,
Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Curacao
British Virgin Islands
Dominica, Grenada, Guyana
Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique
Montserrat, Nevis, Puerto Rico
St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, St. Lucia
St. Maarten, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos, USVI
Topic: “Imagine that you are a travel journalist and you have been assigned to write a story about your country. Remember that our editorial mission is Truth in Travel, and we like to go beneath the surface to show people more than just the usual tourist spots.”
Anguilla, Aruba, Bahamas
Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, BVI
Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic
Grenada, Guyana, Haiti
Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat
Nevis, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts
St. Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname
Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos, USVI