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Climate Smart Sustainable Tourism Forum 2017 - St Kitts

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PRESENTATIONS:

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1. Leading The Way – Destination St. Kitts
2. Tourism Resiliency through Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation
3. Innovative Models & Best Practices in Sustainable Tourism
4. Leading the Way – CTO in Action
5. S.M.A.R.T Destinations: Using Climate as an Opportunity
6. Tourism Recovery Roundtable
7. Climate and Disaster Management
8. Communicating Sustainability Workshop – To Be Supplied
9. Sustainable Tourism Enterprise Model – To Be Supplied

PHOTOS:

1. Opening Reception
2. Keynote Address & Day 1 Sessions
3. Day 2 Sessions:
4. Awards Dinner
5. CTO-CDB Strategic Consultations
6. St. Kitts Delegate Tours:

VIDEOS:

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1. Keynote Speaker Presentation
2. Interview Highlights Compilation – Day 1
3. Interview Highlights Compilation – Day 2
4. Individual Delegate Interviews
5. Forum Opening Ceremony

S.T. Technical Committee Presentations

Bermuda, April 2011

Regional Monitoring and Evaluation System for Disaster Risk Management & Climate Change Adaptation in the Caribbean Tourism Sector  — Joanne Persad – Project Coordinator, CDEMA

GEF-IWCAM: Linking Water Resources, Coastal Areas & the Tourism Product in the Caribbean

Caribbean Carnival Conference Championships —  Dr. Vijay Ramlal Rai, President World Carnival Commission (WCC)

Travel Forever –  The new global standard for sustainable tourism  —Global Sustainable Tourism Council

 October 2010

CCRIF: A Natural Catastrophe Risk Insurance Mechanism for Caribbean Nations

Remarks on Sustainable Tourism Marketing — Andy Dumaine, President, Shrinkingfootprint

Barbados, May 2010

What is CHENACT? —Loreto Duffy-Mayers, CHENACT Project Manager

The CARIBSAVE Partnerships & Climate Change: A Sectoral Approach to Vulnerability and Resilience — Dr. Murray Simpson, CEO & Co-Director CARIBSAVE Partnership

Rural Livelihoods and Agrotourism— Ena Harvey, Hemispheric Specialist – Agrotourism, IICA

Responsible Travel — Graham Mackenzie, Responsibletravel.com

The Travel Foundation at a Glance — Travel Foundation

STC 14: Trinidad 2013

Keynote Speech — Carlos Vogeler, Regional Director of the Americas, UNWTO

The Caribbean Fish Sanctuary Partnership Initiative — Judi Clarke,  The CARIBSAVE Partnership

Partnership strategies to Increase Profitability and Visitor Spending — Hugh Cresser & Associates

Towards Long Term Sustainability for Caribbean Tourism, Challenges and Opportunities — Willard Phillips, UN-ECLAC

Promoting Entrepreneurship through Festivals: Exploitation of the mango from seed to table — Gia Gaspard-Taylor, President Network of Rural Women Producers Trinidad & Tobago (NRWP)

Tourist-Flow Biological Biodiversity” in Small Island Developing States — Sonja S. Teelucksingh & Patrick K. Watson, UWI, Trinidad & Tobago

Bluefields Bay Fish Sanctuary: Now and Then — Wolde Kristos, Bluefields Bay Fishermen’s Friendly Society

Good Agro Tourism Practices — Alison Godwin, Grand Agro Tourism Ltd.

Creating & Managing Sustainable Caribbean Destinations: The Midtown St Petersburg Case Study — Shrimatee Ojah-Maharaj

A Green Globe Travelife Gold ISO 14001 Certified Resort — Ewald Biemans, Bucuti & Tara Resorts

Punta Cana Resort — Jake Kheel, Environmental Director, Grupo PUNTACANA

Advancing Destination Sustainability & Profitability During Economic Downturn — Dr. The Hon. Rufus W. Ewing, Premier and Minister of Tourism, Turks and Caicos Islands

The Case for Responsible Travel: Trends & Statistics — Martha Honey, Ph.D., Co-Director, Center for Responsible Travel (CREST)

Tourism – A tool for Conservation- A partnership Approach — Suzan Lakhan, Nature Seekers

Partnerships in the Development of Agrotourism — Ena Harvey, IICA

Marketing Responsible Tourism Products — Trudi Pearce, Head of Destination Partnerships, ResponsibleTravel.com

Building Sucessful Tourism Destination Network — Nildamarie Díaz Hiraldo, MBA Deputy Director, Sustainable Tourism, Tourism Quality and Educational Affairs, Puerto Rico Tourism Company

STC 14 Rapporteurs Report

The Seven Rules of Green Marketing — Green Team, Hugh Hough

Tourism, Sea Turtles and the Environment as a catalyst for Developing Sustainable Communities — Dr. Allan Bachan 

CTO Crest Symposium 2014

Presentations:

All presentations are available on the following website:
http://www.responsibletravel.org/events/3rd-Innovators-Symposium.html

Gail Henry: Opening Ceremony Remarks

CWA Agrotourism Seminar, 2013, Guyana

Final Report-Investing in Agrotourism Development in the Caribbean Region

Food Tourism in the Caribbean: Unlocking the Potential ~ Gail Henry, Sustainable Tourism Product Specialist, CTO

Linking Local Production with the Tourism Industry in the Caribbean ~ Gail Henry

CTO UNEP Sustainable Tourism Symposium 2012

Opening Remarks — Gail Henry, CTO Sustainable Tourism Specialist

EU Delegation to the Caribbean – Presentation to Symposium

Recommendations for Sustainable Tourism Activities in the Caribbean; Advancing Sustainable Tourism in the Caribbean: A Regional Progress Report — Gail Henry, Sustainable Tourism Specialist, CTO

A 3-Dimensional View of Sustainable Tourism:The Blue Print for Destinations — Deirdre Shurland, Senior Consultant, UNEP, Coordinator, Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism

Sustainable tourism makes business and economic sense — Eddy Silva, Conservation and Sustainable Tourism Specialist, The Nature Conservancy

Building Sustainable Tourism Worldwide — Global Partnership for Sustainable Tourism

OECS Common Tourism Policy – Sustainable Tourism Actions — Lorraine Nicholas

Innovations and Performance Sustainability in the Private Sector, The Crane

CDB: Financing Sustainable Tourism Projects — Andrew F. Dupigny, Divisional Chief (Ag.) Economic Infrastructure Division

IDB: Advancing Sustainable Tourism in the Caribbean Region — Mr. Desmond Thomas, Lead Economist

Sustainable Tourism Programming – Group Session — Sheree-Ann Adams, Leeds Metropolitan University

The Tourism Sector & the Green Economy — Mr. Allan Franklin, Ministry of Tourism, Senior Research Officer (a.g.)

Situation analysis of the sustainable tourism priorities of CTO member countries — Sherma Roberts, Janice Cumberbatch and Catrina Hinds

Small Tourism Enterprises Network (STEN) —OAS Representative to Barbados – Mr. Francis McBarnette

STC 12: Bermuda 2011

Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre—Dr U Trotz

Shirlene Nibbs, Managing Director of Nibbs and Associates

Bermuda Government presentation

Heritage Matters — Dr Edward Harris

Rapporteurs Report

Bermuda Cultural Map — Frances Marshall

Save the Planet, Save Your Money: Cutting Costs through Responsible Resource Use —Bill Meade

Haven’t Been There, Done That: How Experiential Tourism is Transforming the Travel Experience—Judy Karwacki, Small Planet Consulting

Making Green “Work” for Bermuda—Rita Healy, The Fairmont Southampton, Bermuda

The Sustainability Report Card: How to Avoid GreenWashing— Jacqueline Kuehnel, JK Consulting Enterprises

Tourism Master Plan for Barbados— Nicole Alleyne, Ag. Chief Tourism Development Office, Barbados

The Power of Partnerships — Thomas Meller, MARTI

Travel Forever The new global standard for sustainable tourism — Global Sustainable Tourism Council

STC 11: Barbados 2010

STC-11- Rapporteur’s Report

Terestella González Denton, Caribbean Round: Public-Private Sector Cooperation for Innovative & Sustainable Tourism

Maximizing the Potential of Heritage Tourism in the Caribbean — Dr. Keith Nurse, Director, Shridath Ramphal Centre

Keith Nurse, Part 1,   Keith Nurse Part 2;   Keith Nurse Part 3; Keith Nurse- Part 4

The Green Frontier—Andy Dumaine, Shrinking FootPrint

Path to World Heritage Designation: The Barbados Case Study— Alissandra Cummins, Director, Barbados Museum & Historical Society

UNESCO Opportunities for Cultural Heritage Tourism Development in the Caribbean — Kwame Boafo, Director UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean

The CARIBSAVE Partnership & Climate Change: A Sectoral Approach to Vulnerability & Resilience — Dr. Murray Simpson, CEO and Co-Director CARIBSAVE Partnership

Mary Mahon-Jones, President, Mahon & Jones Associates -–North American Tourist, Part 1 ;    North American Tourist (Part 2);

Global Standards for Tourism — Erika Harms, Executive Director, Tourism Sustainability Council (TSC), UN Foundation

Opportunities for Sustainable Investment and Financing in Tourism: The SIFT Network — Erica Allis, Consultant, UNEP’s Division of Technology,Industry and Economics

The Tsunami Experience: Are there Opportunities to be grabbed in a crisis or disaster ?— Jean-Marc Flambert, Director, Your Tourism Partner Limited

Jonathan Tourtellot, Director, and Geotourism Editor, National Geographic Traveler:
Keynote Address – Tourtellot Part 1,   Tourtellot Part 2,  Tourtellot Part 3,  Tourtellot Part 4, Tourtellot Part 5 (29MB total)

Turks & Caicos Since STC 10 — Brian Been, Senior Product Development Officer, TCI

STC 10: Turks & Caicos 2008 ; Heritage Development Workshop

The Sustainable Dive Market — Stephen Broadbelt

Climate Change and Sustainable Coastal Tourism in the Caribbean:Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation — Dr. Murray Simpson

Sustainability & The Cruise Lines — Ms. Elaine Heldewier

Disaster Risk Managment: Coastal Communities & Tourism Development — Jeremy Collymore, Coordinator, CDERA

Policies & Tools for Sustainable Tourism — Richard Denman

Nature’s Investment Bank: Marine Protected Areas & Poverty Reduction — Eleanor Phillips

Strategies for Managing Marine Sites and Attractions — James Azueta

Sustainability – The Tour Operator’s Role — Eileen Donnelly

The Turks & Caicos Conservation Fund: Financing the preservation effort of our National Treasures — Wesley Clerveaux

Turks & Caicos Government Policy perspective and Environmental Management — Judith Campbell

Preservation of Our National Treasures The Role of Non-governmental Organizations — Ms. Ethlyn Gibbs – Williams

Green Globe Presentation

Coral reef protection and management (Coral Reef Alliance, CORAL) — Rick MacPherson

Bonaire’s Award Acceptance Speech — Lieutenant Governor Herbert Domacasse

Audio– David Suzuki Keynote Speech

UWI/EBCCI Heritage Tourism Workshop: Barbados, March 2009

Good Practices in Community-Based Tourism in the Caribbean – Gail Henry, Sustainable Tourism Specialist, CTO

Heritage Tourism Workshop 2008, Barbados

Barbados Museum as Tourism Product— Kevin Farmer

Mapping the Journey to Success — Jo-Anne Tull

Perspectives and Challenges of Heritage Tourism Development — Dr. Michael Scantlebury

Sustainable Strategic Business Management Models —Keith Nurse

The Importance of Story in Heritage Tourism — Gladstone Yearwood

STC 9: Cayman Islands 2007

Paper on Recreational Carrying Capacity —Graham Barrow,  Tourism Enterprise and Management (TEAM)

Cayman Island’s Tourism Director at Closing News Conference (Statment on behalf of the minister)

Greening Your Business — Deirdre Shurland, Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism

Partnerships in Sustainable Tourism — Frank E. Roulstone III,  General Manager, National Trust for the Cayman Islands

The Economics of Greening Your Business — Peter Hillenbrand, Director at Walhill Farm, Cayman Islands

The Sandbar and Stingray City — Gina Ebanks-Petrie, Cayman Islands Dept. of Environment

Developing a Spa and Wellness Business — Gaudia Chevannes-Aquart

Recreational Carrying Capacity — Graham C Barrow

Basics of Ayurveda Tourism Development —Indiana Monteverde

Juan Carlos Vega Cidraz, Planning Director, PRTC, on Puerto Rico since STC-8

Standards and Accreditation for Alternative Medicine — Dr. Sylvia Mitchell, Medicinal Plant Research Group, Biotechnology Centre, UWI Jamaica

Health Tourism in Cuba (Spanish)

The Successes, Challenges and Opportunities in the Caribbean — Steve Andrews

STC 8: Puerto Rico 2006

Tourism & Biodiversity Conservation — Carl Bro, Intelligent Solutions

Towards an Economy Based on Knowledge, The Future of Puerto Rico’s Economic Development — Jan Modesti, Dept of Economics & Commerce

Successful Business Opportunities for Sustainable Tourism — Fernando Abruna, Abrua & Musgrave, Architects

Shades of Green – Paradores Perspective on Sustainability — Myma Hau

The Bank’s Role on Sustainable Tourism Development — Annette Montoto, CPA, President Economic Development Bank, Puerto Rico

Financing Sustainable Tourism Projects – Travel Foundation (Tobago) Experience — Chris James, Chairman, Steering Committee, Travel Foundation Tobago

Challenges and Lessons in Financing Community Based Tourism Projects — Sylvester Clauzel, CANAR

Perspectives on Financing Sustainable Tourism, Brand Caribbean Wellness Travel – Do’s & Don’ts — Wanda Fisher, Founder CAWS

STC8 Presentation: Environmental Improvements “A Self-Help Approach” — Hugh Cresser, Principal Consultant, PA Government Services

Heritage Tourism, Keeping the Right Balance:Economic Progress and Sustainable Tourism — Dr. Michael Scantlebury, Assistant Professor, Dept of Tourism Events & Attractions, Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida

Maximizing the local economic impact of tourism — Dr Harold Goodwin, Director, International Centre for Responsible Tourism, University of Greenwich

Community based tourism in sustainable livelihood-based poverty eradication — Dennis Pantin

The Price of Power (Abstract) – Keeping Tourism Competitive in the face of rising energy costs —Anton Edmunds, CCAA