Tourism Panel – What is the future of Caribbean tourism?

Tourism to the Caribbean is thriving, with the region expected to attract close to 30 million visitors from the Americas in 2025. Having achieved remarkable recent growth, the Caribbean is now looking to build on this success while also overcoming problems of rapid growth.

• Should the Caribbean be taking a pan-regional approach to tourism marketing, or is each destination for itself?

• How do tourism destinations in the region build resilience into their operations, balancing growth in arrivals with protecting the region's prized environmental attractions?

• Are there options to build better intra-regional air connections and more capacity into developing Latin American source markets?

• What do trends around personalisation, luxury travel and sustainability mean for Caribbean destinations?