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The show is considered the premier annual gathering in the region, where Caribbean hospitality and tourism professionals meet with colleagues and international buyers and sellers.
We recently released our annual travel industry trends forecast,
Skift Megatrends 2025. Because of the havoc that the pandemic triggered, we wrote Travel Megatrends 2025 as a vision of how travel industry dynamics could play out five years from now. You can read about each of the trends on Skift, or download a copy here.
Leisure travel as a whole in 2025 is close to surpassing historic 2019 levels. However, the global and regional patchwork responses in public health protocols and border restrictions back in Covid times means that this peak remains uneven across the world. It’s true that domestic tourism has taken on a sexier allure for the past five years, as travelers continue to invest part of their vacation time in backyard tourism. Less-stringent health requirements, such as the absence of domestic vaccine mandates or digital health passes, help push this local travel demand.
Grenada Hotel & Tourism Association announces new President
January 23, 2021
The new President of the Grenada Hotel & Tourism Association is taking over during a challenging time in the tourism sector. He and the GHTA Board and committees have committed to working to heal what has been damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Grenada Hotel & Tourism Association announced that Leo Garbutt of the owning family of Calabash Luxury Boutique Hotel has been voted in as the President of GHTA by his peers.
With over 30 years of experience in Grenada’s tourism industry and having undertaken previous leadership roles within the GHTA and Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA), Leo is picking up this role at a particularly challenging time for the tourism sector. Leo and the GHTA board & committees will work diligently and respectfully to heal the industry wounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, which will lead to further growth from where tourism left off in 2019.