Cayman will host large conference
The Florida Caribbean Cruise Association has chosen the Cayman Islands to host another large tourism conference in May 2007.
It is expected that the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s annual Sustainable Tourism Development Conference could attract some 300 to 400 delegates to Grand Cayman, which is about a 3rd of the size of the FCCA event held here in late October and early November.
Minister of Tourism, Charles Clifford, suggests that this conference is very significant. After attending the 2006 Sustainable Tourism Conference in Puerto Rico, he found issues addressed there often concerned far-reaching topics. The minister also noted that a large number of delegates had attended the previous year’s conference via cyberspace, and therefore he expects the same option to be available in Cayman.
The conference will take place in Cayman in May, and local tourism officials are going to use it to advertise the island’s Go-East initiative, aimed at enhancing the number of visits to East End and Bodden Town.