The Hon Edmund Bartlett, Founder & Co-Chair, Global Tourism Resilience & Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC) has signed a letter of intent with Bournemouth University’s Richard Gordon MBE, Head of the Department of Disaster & Crisis Management, and Professor Lee Miles.
The two centers will share academic and practical project development and implementation, as well as data sharing and analytics, focussing on safeguarding tourism in Africa and the Caribbean. They also aim to foster public-private partnerships in tourism resilience.
The center is based at the University of the West Indies and is the first academic resource center dedicated to addressing crises and resilience for the travel industry in the Caribbean.
The body assists destinations in preparedness, management, and recovery from disruptions and/or crises that impact tourism and threaten economies and livelihoods globally.
Since its inception, several Satellite Centres have been launched in Kenya, Canada, Jordan, and Bulgaria. Others are in the process of inscription in Costa Rica, Nigeria, Spain, Greece, and Ghana.