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Vanessa Ledesma, CEO of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), embarked on her inaugural visit to Grenada, graciously invited by the Grenada Hotel and Tourism Association (GHTA).

Her visit, aimed at fostering stronger ties and collaboration within the region’s hospitality industry, proved to be a resounding success, as she engaged with key stakeholders, shared insights, and explored opportunities for growth.

During her visit, Ledesma took centre stage at the GHTA’s Members Meeting, where she delivered a compelling presentation highlighting the myriad benefits and value of membership within the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association. Her insights shed light on the importance of collective action and cooperation in navigating challenges and maximising opportunities in the ever-evolving tourism landscape.

The GHTA extended a warm welcome to Ledesma through a reception held in her honour, providing a platform for intimate discussions and networking opportunities. Among the distinguished guests were  Sen. Hon. Adrian Thomas, Minister of Tourism, Sen. Hon. Salim Rahaman, Nikoyan Roberts, GTA Marketing Manager, GHTA board members and esteemed members of the GHTA. GHTA CEO, Arlene Friday remarked, “We are honoured to welcome Vanessa. Her visit symbolises a significant step forward in strengthening the relationship and fostering growth of the Grenadian hospitality sector. The GHTA looks forward to leveraging her expertise and insights to further elevate our industry.”

Throughout her visit, Ledesma embarked on insightful site visits with GHTA CEO to member hotels, actively listening to the concerns and aspirations of the local hospitality community. She offered pragmatic solutions and strategies to address challenges and enhance the competitiveness of Grenada’s tourism sector. In addition to her engagements with industry stakeholders, Vanessa Ledesma also had the opportunity to explore the beauty and charm of Grenada firsthand. Immersing herself in the local culture, she visited several memorable locations and met with key individuals, further deepening her understanding of the destination and its unique offerings.

Reflecting on her visit, Ledesma remarked, “Grenada holds immense potential as a premier tourism destination within the Caribbean, and I am truly inspired by the passion and dedication of its hospitality industry stakeholders. Through collaboration and a strong public private partnership, I am confident that the Grenada Hotel and Tourism Association and its members will continue to thrive and flourish.”

Ledesma’s visit to Grenada signifies a milestone in strengthening ties between the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association and the Grenada Hotel and Tourism Association, laying the groundwork for future collaboration and mutual success.

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It’s called Forward Together, and it’s an initiative which encourages industry stakeholders to join their colleagues in supporting the trade association.

Vanessa Ledesma, CHTA’s Acting CEO and Director General, posits that CHTA’s ability to continue responding to the pandemic and support an accelerated recovery depends on the support of existing and new members, both large and small.

“With the growing deployment of vaccines worldwide, we are encouraged by industry research indicating that travelers’ views towards international travel are increasingly favorable, and confirming that Caribbean countries and territories continue to be some of the most desired destinations for leisure travel,” said Ledesma.

“For the past year CHTA has directed much of its attention towards the pandemic response as we have developed resources and programs to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, restore the viability of the hospitality and tourism sector, promote public health measures, and bolster traveler and employee confidence,” Ledesma said.

In response to the needs of the industry, CHTA has developed an extensive collection of COVID-19 resources, including the Caribbean Tourism Health Safety Training Series, comprehensive industry health safety guidelines and related training endorsed by the Caribbean Public Health Agency. 

The association also has hosted more than 25 live webinars addressing issues ranging from trends in travel demand and concerns over travel safety to risk management, as well as Caribbean Tourism Fireworks, a series of virtual press conferences providing destination updates to the industry, media and consumers.

“CHTA remains committed to this dynamic and essential industry, and to ensure our collective success, we need the support of our members,” the CEO said..

Ledesma reminded stakeholders that for the first time in nearly 40 years, Caribbean Travel Marketplace, the premier annual gathering where Caribbean hospitality and tourism professionals meet with regional colleagues and international buyers and sellers, will be staged virtually this year.

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Serving and representing the hotel and tourism industry in the Caribbean region.

Business View Caribbean profiles The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association,serving and representing the hotel and tourism industry in the Caribbean region

Recently, Business View Caribbean talked with Frank Comito, the CEO and Director General of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA). The following is a transcript of a wide-ranging discussion that touched on many issues and activities in which the Association is engaged:

“The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association was originally called the Caribbean Hotel Association. It was founded in 1962, as part of a federation of national hotel and tourism associations in the region at that time. And we continue, to this day, being a federation of 32 national hotel and tourism associations with all of our respective memberships drawing from that number, as well as company members we garner from international sources. We have over 1,000 members today.  It was founded, originally, to help market the industry and to work collaboratively on issues that affect its ability to drum up business. So a lot of its emphasis, in the early stages, was on marketing. But as time evolved, in the late ‘70s, ‘80s, and early ‘90s, its mission expanded into other areas, in particular: advocacy, research and information dissemination, workforce development, and overall product development. And that expanded mission continues to today.

“About ten years ago, the Caribbean Hotel Association changed its name to the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association, in recognition of our diverse membership and the broad reach that tourism has on the economies of the Caribbean. Over the years, we’ve also established a few related organizations and institutions, including the CHTA Education Foundation, which has awarded over $5 million worth of scholarships to the region’s residents and has played an integral part in human resource development. We also established a group called the Caribbean Society of Hotel Association Executives, which is geared towards supporting the professional development and the coordination amongst the various national hotel association executives – information sharing, best practices, and strengthening the two-way links between the national hotel and tourism associations and CHTA. We also had a spin-off organization called the Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism in the late 1990s, which focuses primarily on encouraging sustainable tourism practices. It’s the umbrella for energy efficiency projects that we’ve done, energy efficiency policies that we’ve advanced, best practices on environmental standards, and a range of sustainable initiatives.”

Can you elaborate on the Association’s advocacy responsibilities and activities?

“It’s an ongoing challenge to make sure that our policies regionally, as well as in individual countries, are conducive to advancing the growth, development, and profitability of the industry, and recognizing that it’s the primary generator of employment and tax revenue for the region. That’s not necessarily fully acknowledged in practice by many governments in the region, and we’ve worked hard with our counterpart organization, the Caribbean Tourism Organization, which represents government interests in the tourism industry, to provide information and facts about its economic impact. We’ve worked closely over the years with the World Travel and Tourism Council and groups like Oxford Economics to garner and support the development of the necessary research to show the broad economic impact of tourism in our various jurisdictions in the Caribbean. That’s been absolutely necessary because we’re faced constantly with issues of high taxation and high costs of doing business in the Caribbean, which have corresponding effects on our rates and our profitability. We have to be on top of that all of the time and work hard to make sure governments are aware of how policies and regulatory matters affect our industry and their economies. So, advocacy plays a very key role in everything that we do. We operate under seven guiding strategy objectives and right in there is advocacy and representation.”

You also mentioned research and the dissemination of information as part of the Association’s mission. Any recent initiatives in that area?

“We’ve done research and position papers on the lifting of the U.S. embargo on Cuba and offered some positive and constructive ways in which individual jurisdictions in the region can address the impending changes. We’re finalizing an advocacy paper, right now, on the sharing economy – groups like Uber and AirBnB – and how they may be effectively integrated into the industry with standards, regulations, and some fair play on taxation, to not only protect the reputation of the industry, but also to help to develop that subsector of the accommodations sector, as well.

The Zika virus has been in the news lately and it’s realistic to think that it will have an impact on travel and tourism in the region. How has the Association responded?

Early in 2016 CHTA quickly put into gear a multi-pronged approach toward addressing the Zika matter.   It’s been a coordinated effort, a partnership between the public and private sectors, working in collaboration with the regional umbrella group, called CARPHA, the Caribbean Public Health Agency organization that represents ministries of health throughout the Caribbean. We’ve been working diligently on education, training, getting the right kind of information out there – mitigation and effective control techniques – and looking at it not only from the hotel and tourism industry’s point of view, but looking at it as an essential broader collaborative response by governments, communities, and our industry in the private sector, in dealing with a matter that, if it’s not handled as well as it could, might have broad consequences on our economies and our industry, and, quite frankly, the social health and welfare of the residents of the Caribbean.  To date we’ve seen an overwhelming positive response and the industry has quickly responded with stepped up vector controls, staff training, and public education efforts aimed at guests and employees.

Can you talk a little about the nuts and bolts of the Association? Who are your members and are their different tiers of membership?

We’re a federation of national hotel and tourism associations, so the region’s national hotel and tourism associations are members. We also have over 600 hotel members from the Caribbean and another 400 allied members, both within the Caribbean as well as external partners – tour operators, wholesalers, airlines, people who do business with the tourism industry, even banks and other kinds of financial institutions. We also have what we call partner organizations that we work with like the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association; the Caribbean and Central American Action, based out of Washington; the Caribbean Council, based out of the United Kingdom; and IATA, the International Air Transport Association. So we have a number of affiliated memberships, which are really reciprocal memberships – there’s quite a few of those.

What kind of events do you hold for your members?      

“We have four key events throughout the year. We just completed our annual marketing event called Caribbean Travel Marketplace, which was held in The Bahamas and had over a thousand participants. That’s the industry’s premier business gathering where we bring suppliers– suppliers being the hotels throughout the region, some of the local tour operators, attractions, and providers – together with buyers, which include, primarily, leading tour operators and wholesalers from around the world, for two days of intense appointments for buying, selling, negotiating, making new contacts, and so on. We have an education component layered in that’s very much directed to sales and marketing kinds of training and support, and this year, we also had 14 ministers or heads of tourism in governments throughout the Caribbean join us. So, that’s the primary event.

“We also do an event called CHIEF, the Caribbean Hospitality Industry Exchange Forum, which is very much professional development and education-oriented. We started that event last October at the El Conquistador Waldorf Astoria in Puerto Rico and it was very successful – the feedback was terrific. In that, we have household names from every kind of company imaginable doing workshops and seminars for our people, and a buying element for our allied members with a tradeshow component to it. We’ll be repeating that again, this year, in the same location, the first couple of days in October.

“The fourth signature event that we have is the Caribbean Hotel Investment Conference and Operations Summit that’s held in November. That’s done primarily by a company called HVS and we, along with the Caribbean Tourism Organization, are host sponsors, as well. Those make up the bulk of our major activities and events.”

How else do you communicate with the membership?

“We communicate with them about four or five times a week. We try to balance it so we don’t over-communicate, but we have various ways. We do webinars, email, and social media. At our Caribbean Travel Marketplace, we had over nine million social media hits on that event; it was quite exciting to see that kind of engagement.”

The Great Recession harmed tourism pretty much everywhere, but particularly in the Caribbean. What does the landscape look like for the industry over the next several years, and how do you see the Association continuing to be a viable voice for the sector?

“We just completed our first annual ‘Industry Performance and Outlook Study.’ The findings really showed that we’re continuing on an upward path that started about three years ago for the region as an aggregate. Some destinations did okay during the Recession, some struggled quite a bit, and some came out of it earlier than others. Collectively, the region really came out of it about three years ago, and we’ve seen a good upward trend line. More than half the hotels reported strong to moderate performance in 2015. With increased occupancies and arrivals, most hotels also increased their employment rolls. So there was some robust hiring, last year.

“Also, one of the things that happened during the Recession is we saw a retrenchment in capital expenditures. We’re starting to see people coming out of that, and last year, they came out of it quite significantly. So, capital expenditures and investments in hotel properties were up, last year, and are projected to increase in 2016. The profit picture is a little unsettling, yet, in part because of people still struggling. There are a lot of back payments and things that were put on hold. And because of the Recession, we were not able to move up our ADR, our Average Daily Rate, as quickly as we wanted to as an industry, but we’ve been seeing it move up four to six points each year over the last two years. Despite improved performance, one third of the hotels reported an anticipated loss in 2015. That’s not insignificant, but at the height of the Recession over half of them were reporting that. So we’ve seen some change, that way.

“90 percent of the hotels characterized the 2015 tourism industry as ‘strong to moderate.’ And the outlook for 2016 remains positive with some concerns. The outlook wasn’t as strong as 2015, but it’s still strong. We asked a few questions about those concerns and received comments that categorized a couple of areas – high operating costs, taxation pressures, air lift challenges, and, to a lesser extent, perceptions of crime and safety in the region.”

You mentioned “air lift challenges.” Are you alluding to the fact that air travel to the island is still too expensive for many people?

We’ve not engaged some our key people, including the airline stakeholders, as effectively in recent years. So, part of the mandate we’ve given ourselves is to reach out to them much more effectively and we’re doing that, right now. We’ve done some research on price elasticity and at one point we lose market share because of the high cost of airfare. So, one of our goals around advocacy is to reduce the high cost of airfare. One of the major contributors to the high airfare costs to the Caribbean are the high tax levels. Taxes and fees have gone up incredibly in the last several years. The U.S. taxes and fees have pretty much held their own, but, for example, if you buy a ticket to the Bahamas, which is a quick hop from Florida, over 51 percent of the cost of your ticket are taxes and fees. And that translates into most jurisdictions in the Caribbean – they can be quite high. So, when you factor that in, our argument has been that that adds to the increased costs of supply. The airlines’ cost have actually held their own or gone down a bit, but it’s the taxes and fees that are the big bugaboo, here. So, we started an outreach, working with our Caribbean Tourist Organization, to look at ways we can help to reduce the cost of travel to the region. It’s an advocacy initiative that’s part of a three-year plan. We won’t get it done overnight, but we have done a lot of groundwork, already; we’ve built some collaborative efforts around it both with the airline industry and with the Caribbean Tourism Organization to help address, not only the costs, but also the ease of travel, as well. It should be much easier than it is.

To sum up, what are some of the salient points that you would like our readers to take away from an article about the CHTA?

“The core of the message is that in the Caribbean, tourism is everyone’s business. And if people understand better the connection of how it affects everything – the socioeconomic aspect of everything in almost all the destinations in the Caribbean – they can see how we can better connect the dots. We need much more friendly policies and collaborative initiatives to protect and enhance the industry. It’s the single quickest way to generate employment and tax revenue for the governments of the Caribbean. Bumping up our arrivals and our occupancies a few points has tremendous value; the tourist dollar has a multiplier effect that touches just about every aspect of life. And the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association is an active and engaging partner, working at the local and regional levels to help market, develop, enhance, and protect the industry.”

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The Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association Education Foundation (CHTAEF) was established in 1986 as an independent non-profit organization offering tax-exempt status for donations. The charity offers scholarships and special assistance for the education of Caribbean tourism industry personnel and students pursuing tourism & hospitality careers. As part of its mission, the Education Foundation provides people throughout the Caribbean region with an awareness of the varied career opportunities in the industry, as well as technical and professional development.

Today, the CHTA Education Foundation volunteer trustees administer one of the largest scholarship programs available in the Caribbean Hospitality & Tourism Industry. Funds for these scholarships and grants are generated from corporate sponsorships, benefit auctions & special events. We also encourage the co-sponsorship of scholarships through businesses that do business with the Caribbean, National Hotel Associations and individual Resort sponsorship.

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The CHTAEF is an initiative of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association. The CHTAEF was established in 1986 as a non-profit, tax-exempt organization through which scholarships and special assistance are made available for the education of Caribbean hotel industry personnel and students pursuing careers in tourism. 

As part of its mission, the CHTAEF provides people throughout the region with an awareness of the industry’s varied career opportunities, as well as technical and professional development. Since its inception, CHTAEF has awarded over US$2.5 million in scholarships and grants.

  The CHTA Education Foundation evolved over the past few years from providing solely individual scholarships for Secondary School graduates  to including funding a series of programs which target the regions existing staff.  These programs focused on providing short courses for hospitality professionals who are the backbone of our industry to reenergize and reengage them, help them become better at their current jobs and potentially assist them to advance in their field.   In 2018, throughout 2019 and in early 2020, we held on-island training in one-day certification courses which were extremely well received.  Through these online training courses we reached more than 750 hospitality professionals in Barbados, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Maarten, and Tobago. The feedback from our colleagues who participated in these trainings was phenomenal.

The on-island training was made possible through the generous contributions of our long-time sponsors Virgin Holidays and Interval International. For more than a decade, these organizations have helped us transform the lives and careers of Caribbean hospitality professionals not only through individual scholarships, but now also through our on-island activities. We are deeply indebted to Virgin Holidays and Interval International for their commitment to the CHTAEF and to Caribbean hospitality education and training.

Donations from CHTA hotel members also contribute greatly to our success. CHTAEF thanks all those Caribbean properties that donate free stays for our raffles and auctions every year which serve as the foundation for our yearly operational funding. Sadly, the majority of our 2020 online training program was necessarily halted during the pandemic and we have focused on identifying funding for online courses until we can return to in-person learning in our Caribbean countries, which we believe is the best option for many of our hospitality team members.

In 2019, we awarded 20 scholarships to students from 10 different destinations: Anguilla, Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

In 2020, we funded 12 scholarships to students from nine different destinations: Anguilla, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Jamaica, St Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago, and the US Virgin Islands.

Our scholars are gaining hospitality knowledge, training and skills at some of the most prestigious institutions around the globe, including Les Roches, Johnson & Wales University, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Cornell University, The Culinary Institute of America, Edinburgh Napier University, Lynn University, Monroe College, University of Aruba, University of the Virgin Islands, University of the West Indies, and Vatel Hotel & Tourism Business School.We are grateful to all of these institutions for their collaboration with the CHTA Education Foundation.

2020 also saw the Foundation supporting a special scholarship, jointly funded with Johnson and Wales, for a Bahamian student from Abaco, who’s family was devastated by Hurricane Dorian in 2019 and using funds generated by a special fundraiser for school children of Grand Bahama and Abaco so decimated last year.

Working collaboratively with our member partners fuels our enthusiasm and creativity, and we look forward to continuing the good work we have begun.

If you interested in donating a hotel stay or becoming a sponsor or an affiliated institution, we would love to discuss with you how you can join your colleagues in building Caribbean success and unity by promoting and supporting travel to the region.  To learn more about these opportunities , email us at  [email protected]  or   [email protected]

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Tell world about Tobago

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THE EDITOR: Tobago Hotel and Tourism Association president Alpha Lorde has accused Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) of strangling the island’s economy by increasing flights to regional destinations at the expense of the domestic route.

Nothing can be further from the truth. The truth is many unused seats are not taken up by the domestic tourists. Figures reveal that in 2023, from Port of Spain to Tobago, there were 31,667 unused seats. For the same period from Tobago to Trinidad there were 37,509 unused seats. That’s a total of 69,176. Do the maths at $400 per seat. That’s a loss!

Lorde must liaise with the Tobago Tourism Authority to market the island. International tourists bring much needed foreign currency to the island. Apparently Tobago is not well known to international travellers. The cruise ship arrivals account for a drop in the bucket to assist the Tobago economy. But then again, what does Tobago have to offer the discerning international tourists? The usual suspects of the Buccoo Reef, Nylon Pool and No Man’s Land tours must be expanded and enhanced. They are also deep-sea diving, fishing tours, rainforest tours, Concordia Estate walking tour, Little Tobago tour and the character bioluminescence tour. How can we let the world know about these?

The Government spends $4.5 billion a month to run TT. Tobago receives $200 million monthly from the Treasury (Colm Imbert, Exodus panyard, Conversation’s with the Prime Minister). How much goes towards tourism?

In a recent survey of the 23 most popular Caribbean destinations, St Vincent, Dominica and St Kitts/Nevis made the cut. In fact, St Lucia came first and Antigua came second (YouTube).

Tobago did not make the cut. Why? International tourists do not want to go to Tobago. Why? Why aren’t we making the tourism experience phenomenal?

It’s much more than sun, sea and sand.

Come on THA, spend that monthly subvention of $200 million wisely. Let Tobago be known to the world.

JOHN JESSAMY

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Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau holds Roadshow in Moscow

On March 15, 2019 His Excellency Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka to the Russian Federation, joined by Madame Sanja Jayatilleka, attended the roadshow in Moscow, organized by the Sri Lankan Tourism Promotion Bureau with the assistance of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Russia, to promote Sri Lanka as a top tourist destination in the Russian market. A similar event will be held in St. Petersburg, the cultural capital of the Russian Federation.

The roadshow is a very useful platform for representatives of tourism sectors of both countries – Sri Lanka and Russia – to establish direct cooperation with each other, learn more about the respective markets and explore opportunities for mutual contribution towards further growth of the number of Russian tourists, visiting Sri Lanka.

The event began with the lighting of a traditional oil lamp by H. E. Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka, Madame Sanja Jayatilleka, Mrs. Madubhani Perera, Marketing Director of the SLTPB, Mr. Mahen Kariyawasam, Former President of the Sri Lanka Inbound Tour Operators Association, and Mr. Alexander Delezha, Deputy Head of the External Affairs Department at the Rossiya Airlines.

While welcoming more than 40 representatives of Russian travel agencies as well as 13 delegates of Sri Lankan destination management companies (DMC) and hotels that gathered at the seminar, Ambassador Jayatilleka drew particular attention to a huge potential of the Russian market as a destination, in which the SLTPB should carry out promotional activities. Ambassador Jayatilleka also encouraged the Russian tour operators and Sri Lankan travel agents to work closely together, as they represent one of the major ties between the two countries.

Further, Mrs. Madubhani Perera, SLTPB Marketing Director, delivered a presentation on the appeal of Sri Lanka as a tourist destination due to its cultural and historic heritages and various types of leisure, offered to visitors of the island. The official part concluded with Mr. Alexander Delezha addressing the gathering with a presentation.

The second part of the occasion was dedicated to B2B meetings between Sri Lankan and Russian travel agents and DMCs.

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