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The Caribbean Tourism Organization headquarters. The CTO, with headquarters in Barbados, is the Caribbean’s tourism development agency. Its member countries and territories include the Dutch, English, French and Spanish, as well as a myriad of private sector allied members.
The Caribbean Community (abbreviated as CARICOM or CC) is an intergovernmental organisation that is a political and economic union of 15 member states (14 nation-states and one dependency) and five associated members throughout the Americas, The Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean. [12]
Caribbean Tourism Organization, for sustainable tourism; Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, a partnership between Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth governments, business, and civil society organisations; Cyprus Tourism Organisation, a semi-governmental organisation in Cyprus; CTO Hospital (Turin), a major medical center in Turin, Italy
The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) has joined the Haitian government in an effort to restore the island's image as a tourist destination. In 2001, 141,000 foreigners visited Haiti. Most came from the United States. To make tourism a major industry for Haiti, further improvements in hotels, restaurants and other infrastructure still are ...
Caribbean Tourism Organization: CTO: tourism observer Bridgetown, Barbados International Olympic Committee: IOC: sports full member Lausanne, Switzerland Organization of American States: OAS: continental observer Washington, D.C., United States United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean: ECLAC: regional associate ...
Tourism became an economically important industry as Caribbean bananas, sugar, and bauxite were no longer competitively priced with the advent of free-trade policies. [4] [10] Encouraged by the United Nations and World Bank, many governments in the Caribbean encouraged tourism beginning in the 1950s to boost their third-world economies. [11]
Caribbean immigrants. Then I re-visited the issue of Caribbean immigrant women and domestic workers’ rights, with the aim of expanding my opinion piece into a report. The narrative of the Caribbean nanny has been framed in a fictional or semi-autobiographical context. Some time ago, at the annual Brooklyn Book Festival, I met
In February 2013, the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Aviation Task Force (a committee established to facilitate air transportation into and throughout the Caribbean and to enhance airlift) recommended a review of visa regimes in member countries in order to improve the visitor experience following a recent meeting held in Antigua to ...