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In view of addressing the challenges of the African tourism industry, tourism stakeholders om the continent have been making efforts at…

The Conference on Rethinking Africa: Rethinking Tourism for Africa: Addressing global challenges; Promoting investment and partnerships brought expert African perspectives to global challenges, highlighting the need of investments towards a greener tourism sector and access to finance within the sector and the need to further strengthen public-private collaboration at every level.

Tourism leaders place African focus on global challenges

UNWTO: Tourism leaders place African focus on global challenges

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness (right) at the UN SIDS Summit in 2019. “SIDS are a special case for sustainable development. They require concerted long-term attention and investment of the entire international community.” UN SG at 74th UNGA 2019 Guyana and Suriname, member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), are among the few countries globally which still have significant natural forest, having 60 per cent and 91 per cent coverage, respectively. In Jamaica, 26 per cent of the island is still covered by primary forest, and there is currently an ongoing controversy abou...