74 February 2016 - Business View Caribbean
Caribbean Tourism Organization
London: Sector must utilize technology or risk losing business
If the Caribbean tourism industry is not prepared to
cater to visitors in a digital age, it will lose business to
destinations capable of doing so.
That according to Orville London, chief secretary in the
Tobago House of Assembly, during the opening cere-
mony of the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s seventh
Tourism Human Resources Conference in Tobago.
“We have to train and sensitize our employees, our
stakeholders and our citizens that if we do not get on
board with the technology the ship will sail to another
port,” he said.
More than 100 human resources professionals and
tourism industry partners gathered at the Magdalena
Grand Beach Resort for the conference which ran from
Oct. 29-31.
In sync with the conference theme, ‘Achieving High
Performance in Caribbean Tourism in the New Net-
worked Work Environment,’ London also lamented
