By Frank Martin As always, the new year is going fast, but the first quarter of 2023, at the end, has shown something crucial. That is that the recovery after the global pandemic is also going smoothly. The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), one of the most important entities in this world economic branch, has just announced that prospects for the recovery process have been extended from January to March. Nicola Madden-Greig, who chairs the CHTA, further published that "the Caribbean region as a whole is proving to be the fastest recovering sector globally, ahead of the Asian, US and European markets." For Madden-Creig , Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda are three tourist destinations in the Eastern Caribbean that are regionally leading the restoration of the leisure industry to the levels it had before the pandemic. Those islands have had the additional achievement of being the most resilient in this part [...]

by Frank Martin The First Global Tourism Film Festival (GTFF) to be held in the town of North Bay, Ontario, Canada, has made history since its call both in the leisure industry and in the so-called Seventh Art by launching a program of films, workshops and seminars tourism promotion that will surely captivate the public. Organizers have already announced films from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, including the Caribbean, for the April 27-30 festival. All categories of the big screen are contained: feature films, documentaries, short films and tourist commercials that even compete for the prestigious Global Cinema Awards. Excellent screening selections have been made, as noted by film critics, for GTFF 2023. Entities such as tourism boards and ministries from Canada, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Australia, Korea, Japan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Bhutan, Tanzania, Sudan, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Jordan, among others, are represented. The [...]