The 10th annual Sustainable Tourism Conference opened in the Turks and Caicos islands on 28th of April. The conference will touch upon sustainable tourism policies and programs of member states as well as consider different approaches that should be taken in order to bring new success to the region’s tourism.
The eTurbo News quotes Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, who thinks that the conference will help to enhance the region.
“The conference will provide an opportunity for you to help the region enhance, improve and sustain our coastal gifts,” said Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, Secretary General of the CTO as he stress the need for discussions to focus on the conference theme of “Keeping the Right Balance – Sustaining the Caribbean Coastal Product. “We at CTO recognizes the need to properly manage the natural environment and our coastal areas. It is only good business to do so because anything less means we run the risk of destroying the very thing that will sustain us,”
During his speech Wallace also stressed out one of the main purposes of sustainable tourism.
“The more we learn the more we have to learn and thus even though tourism has the potential to raise environmental awareness and protection, it can be view as undermining the very assets upon which its depends,”
Both regional and international tourism specialist, government ministers and different cultural experts from environmental and academic spheres took part in the conference in order to sort out the problems of sustainable tourism development.
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