A Future of Travel: Caribbean Comeback: A viritual conference presented by TravelWeek, Sept. 30, 2020

-Kathryn Folliott, editor from TravelWeek

-Neil Walter, Secretary general, Caribbean Tourism organization

-Ensure a safe transition to a new normal especially with cruise line industry

-All the destinations that are opened so far have taken the world health organization standards and requirements into consideration in creating their protocols and the CTO have worked with the Caribbean public health agency and the Caribban hotel and tourism association the organization of eastern Carribean states commission and the global center to create and distribute a set of guidelines and checklists for the European tourism sector.

-Cindy Sosroutomo, deputy editor, TravelWeek

-Virgilio Russo, Managing Director, of Sales, internationsl, Air Canada

-Air Canada is now offering COVID-19 protection

-From October to March Air Canada is planning 34 destinations in the Caribbean from Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Cayman islands, Cartagena, Colombia, 2 places in Costa Rica, OFur locations in Cuba, Curacao, Two locations in the DR, Granada, Guadalupe, Jamaica, Martinique, 7 locations in Mexico, Panama, Kits, Lucius, martin, Saint Vincent, Trinidad, Tobago, Turks, and Caicos

-The demand is about half from last year

-Air Canada is having quite the demand for Mexico, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahamas, and Barbados.

-Trend: People are going to travel for a longer term with a couple weeks of quarantine in Canada and at your destination the normal 1 week vacation is prohibited

-For business travel and Leisure Travel they are determined to get out of quarantine by taking a COVID-19 test

-Devin Kinasz, publisher, TravelWeek

-Honorablee Edmund Bartlett, Minister of Tourism, Jamaica

-In preparation for reopening we work closely with the national international organization to identify the best practices and develop an intensive array of safety mechanisms to be put in place at all tourism entities across the country these incluse all accommodations, transportations, beaches, bars, restaurants, shopping venues, and spas

-Canadians are welcomed on the island with a COVID-19 test but they have to preregister