Caribbean Tourism and Hospitality Investment Guide
We are presenting this fourth edition of the Caribbean Tourism and Hospitality Investment Guide at a time of a resurgence of growth in the region’s key foreign exchange earning tourism industry.
The tourism and hospitality sector has once again shown its resilience and is on a growth path for 2024. The region’s premier tourism development agency, the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), has reported that Caribbean tourism grew in 2023 with an estimated 14.3% increase in international stay-over arrivals to the region. The Caribbean hotel sector also experienced a “remarkable turnaround” in 2023.
The CTO has described the region’s tourism prospects for 2024 as highly promising with anticipated growth of between five and ten percent. The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is forecasting an average growth rate of 8.6 percent for its 19 Borrowing Member Countries in 2024, largely attributable to increased oil production in Guyana and the continued expansion of the region’s tourism industry.
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The Economic Importance of Coastal and Marine Resources in Barbados.
The Economic Importance of Coastal and Marine Resources in Barbados in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and World Resource Institute.
This report summarizes the results of an empirical study of tourists’ preferences, activities in the coastal zone, and willingness to pay conservation fees to manage coastal and marine resources in Barbados.
This information can be used to identify and develop financing mechanisms for sustainable tourism development and allocate budgetary resources to outcomes that provide the highest return on investment.
Caribbean Tourism Legislation Database
This 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.
View Caribbean Tourism Legislation Database
- Sustainable Tourism Development
Guide to Internet Resources on Sustainable Tourism
This is a list of sustainable tourism web resources throughout the region and internationally. It includes contact addresses and links to various environmental organisations nationally, regionally and internationally; NGOs, private sector organisations; important websites, conferences, research, sources of funding, research and training institutions etc on sustainable tourism development.
View Internet Resources on Sustainable Tourism Guide
Caribbean Sustainable Tourism Policy Framework
It is the intention of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) that this document provides its members, primarily the National Tourism Organisations (NTOs) in its 32 member states, with a Policy Framework to guide the sustainable development of tourism.
View Caribbean ST Policy Framework
Development of a Strategic Business Management Model for the Sustainable Development of Heritage Tourism Products in the Caribbean
- Human Resource Development
Quality Assurance
In April 2003, the Caribbean Tourism Human Resource Council (CTHRC) contracted Dr. Ethley D. London and Dr. Denis F. Paul to develop a Quality Assurance Framework for tourism and hospitality programmes in the region, which will ensure that the programmes and graduates meet acceptable standards and to promote a uniform and consistent level of educational quality.
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HR List of Publications
These include training modules and guides, workbooks and worksheet on subjects ranging from customer relations and supervisory management to managing sites and attractions. There are also CDs and children’s tourism magazines.
Common Core Curriculum Guides in Hospitality/Tourism Studies
The Common Core Curriculum, a component of the Caribbean Tourism Learning System (CTLS), has been developed in the core speciality areas: Hospitality Studies, Food & Beverage Studies, Resort Studies, Tourism Studies, Culinary Arts Studies, Business Core studies and the Elective courses.
Click here to view the Core Curriculum Guides.
Certificates
Certificate in Culinary Arts
Certificate in Tourism Studies
Certificate in Hospitality StudiesAssociate Degree Curriculum Guide – General Education Courses
The publication “The Associate Degree in the Caribbean with particular reference to the OECS”, co-ordinated by the TLIU of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, is proposed as the guide for the General Education courses. It can be obtained from the UWI, Cave Hill Campus website.
Click on the links below to view the Associate Degree Guides.
Food & Beverage Guide
Resort Studies Guide
Business Core Courses Guide
Culinary Arts Studies Guide
Elective Course Guide
Hospitality Studies Guide
Tourism Studies Guide
Proposed Customer Service CurriculumCompetency Manuals
Food Preparation and Production
Front Office
Food and Beverage
Tourism
Tourism – Notes for Instructors
Instructor Manual for Trainee CompetenciesGuidebooks
- Regional Air Transportation
- San Juan Accord: Memorandum on the Regional Air Transport Sector – Looking for a Better Way (San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2007)
- A Proposed Policy Regime for Ensuring the Sustainability of the Caribbean’s Air Transport Services Sector – Prepared by the CTO under the Research Component of The Caribbean Regional Sustainable Tourism Development Programme (CRSTDP)