Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan has said he plans to run as a candidate to chair the Caribbean Tourism Organisation when the regional body holds its annual conference in Cayman next month.
Bryan, speaking on the Cayman Compass Facebook talkshow The Resh Hour Wednesday night, said some of the leaders in the CTO had suggested he run for the post during the conference, which runs from 12-15 Sept. at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Grand Cayman.
“The CTO chairman can be someone who can reinvigorate what the Caribbean region is about, and on a global scale can bring the tourists back to the region and help with this connectivity,” he said.
He said the suggestion that he run had been made “not just because of me but because of Cayman’s strength and always being a regional leader”.
The post is currently held by Barbados tourism minister Lisa Cummins, whose two-year term ends next month, when an election for the chairmanship of the CTO’s Council of Ministers will be held.
The conference, which will be the first major in-person event for the CTO since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, will feature discussions on regional matters relating to tourism and travel among other issues.
The CTO is the region’s tourism development agency, with 24 Dutch, English, Spanish and French country members and a myriad of private sector allied members, its official website states.
The Cayman Islands Ministry and Department of Tourism are partnering with the CTO to host the organisation’s Business Meetings and Caribbean Tourism Youth Congress next month.
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