Caribbean sets up new committee to support additional flights to islands
The Caribbean Tourism Organization has announced a new Aviation Committee to facilitate air transport into and throughout the region and to increase the number of flights to the islands. Particular emphasis will be placed on CTO member-countries.
The Committee is co-chaired by the former CTO chairman, Ricky Skerritt, who is minister of tourism and international transport of St. Kitts & Nevis.
During her inaugural news conference at the CTO State of the Industry Conference in St. Kitts in mid-October, the incoming chairman, Beverly Nicholson-Doty, the United States Virgin Islands’ commissioner of tourism, announced her intention to establish this committee within 30 days.
"The CTO recognises that air transportation is crucial to the success of Caribbean tourism and it is imperative that we seek convenient, affordable and reliable air service if we are to realise our vision of positioning the Caribbean as the world’s most desirable, year-round, warm weather destination in five years," said Nicholson-Doty.
The CTO Aviation Committee is charged with a number of responsibilities, including the development and implementation of strategies for increasing intra-Caribbean tourism; examining the volume and potential of air service into and within the Caribbean; reviewing the status of regulations governing air transport to and within the region and encouraging and facilitating the establishment of practices and procedures that ease the movement of passengers to and throughout the region.
In addition, the committee will encourage and develop relationships between carriers, regulators, airport authorities, customs, immigration, security and other relevant entities, with a view to removing barriers to cooperation; review aviation taxation and related fees and make recommendations where necessary.
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