Travel and touristry is key for the sustainability of Caribbean economies, driving recruitment and revenue era for many of the states. The ongoing COVID-19 universal, catalysed by travel, drastically debilitated the Caribbean frugalities, causing important economic and job misfortunes, disruptions of crucial services and endangered regional energy security. With the revealed need of integrating health in travel even prior to the COVID-19 universal, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) grown the Regional Tourism and Well-being Program (THP) with this in mind. The aim of this chapter search out highlight the crucial part of the THP in the recovery of the travel sector by improving the fitness and safety of Caribbean nation, contributing toward strengthened elasticity of Caribbean tourism and the sustainability of its savings. The research seeks to climax the impact that COVID-19 has had on specific industries center to Caribbean tourism, such as weakened tourist arrivals (by way of airlines and cruise ships), decline in travel and tourism GDP, closure of travel business and facilities and increases in inaction rate. It seeks to address these challenges through differing tools and products formed by the THP i.e. the exercise of a multifaceted approach - following and response, capacity construction, guidelines, policy, flags, advocacy and participations, a travellers’ health award and mobile app – and together with national, local and international travel and health stakeholders to addresses fitness, safety, and environmental cleanliness (HSE) threats to touristry whilst bolstering ethnic and regional health plans. Due to COVID-19, the Program has repurposed many of allure tools for a more robust answer, to boost travellers’ confidence and re-establish more active, safer resume travel in the Caribbean. This innovative program, the first global work of its kind, continues to aim toward bolstering tenable tourism and health protection, lending toward upgraded economic stability in the Caribbean. Through these forms, 7836 persons were trained, 789 trades were registered on THP’s land-located visitor surveillance plan, 1190 alerts on incoming cruise ships were issued to Appendage States and 108 tourist abilities received the Healthier, More reliable Tourism Award. This chapter will debate the tools inside the Program and illustrate how the THP can support the Caribbean’s readiness and response to COVID-19 and other community health threats and develop the recovery and sustainability of Caribbean tourism.
Author(s) Details:
Lisa Indar,
Caribbean
Public Health Agency, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Sastee
Kissoondan,
Caribbean
Public Health Agency, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Keston Daniel,
Caribbean Public Health Agency, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Rhonda Williams,
College of Public Health, East Tennessee State University (ETSU),
Johnson City, TN 37614, United States.
Frieda Mohammed,
Caribbean
Public Health Agency, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/AOBMER-V6/article/view/12670
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