8:30
a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Signing of the Register |
Social
Sciences Lecture Theatre (SSLT) |
| 9:00
a.m. – 10:00 a.m. |
Presentation:
‘Tourism is Now the Global Leader:
Are we
Making the Most of it?
Mr. Allen Chastenet
Owner & Managing Director
CoCo Resorts
|
| 10:00
a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Round
Table
‘Travel &
Tourism’
|
| Chair: |
Mr.
James Samuels
Dir., Tourism & Hospitality Unit
Mona School of Business
The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
|
| Rapportuer:
|
Mr.
Harry Abrikian
Senior Lecturer, Mona School of Business
|
| Presenters: |
Mr.
Jean Holder
Chairman of LIAT
“Branding & Transportation” |
| |
Miss.
Alison Stone,
Assistant Director, Foreign Trade
Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade
“Liberalisation & GATS: Implications
for Tourism”
|
| |
Mrs.
Juliet Moss-Solomon
Chairman/CEO, Compact Travel
“Travel
Agents & Reservations Systems:
the Impact of Technology and the Internet”
|
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
|
COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:30
a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |
Presentations
‘Vulnerability Issues’
|
| Chair:
|
Professor Alvin Wint
Lecturer, Department of Management Studies
|
| Presenters:
|
Dr.
Ian Boxill
Head of Department,
Sociology, Psychology & Social Work
“HIV & Transportable Diseases:
Impact
on the Tourism Sector” |
| |
Dr.
Anthony Harriott
Senior Lecturer, Department of Government
“Crime & Violence in the Tourism
Sector:
Perception & Reality” |
| |
Dr.
Chandana Jayawardena
Professor, Niagara College, Canada
“Attitudes,
Beliefs & Customs: Assets or
Liabilities to Tourism?”
|
| 1:00
p.m.. – 2:30 p.m. |
Lunch
Break
The Undercroft
|
| 2:30
p.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
Presentations
‘The Value of Tourism to the
Jamaican Economy’
|
| Introduction:
|
Pro
Vice Chancellor and Principal,
The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
Professor The Hon. Kenneth Hall |
| Presenters:
|
Dr.
Wesley Hughes
Director General, Planning Institute of Jamaica
“Economics of Tourism: Are we Winning?”
|
| 4:30
p.m. – 5:30 p.m. |
Closing
Session
|
| Chair: |
Executive Director, Mona School of Business
The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
Dr. Neville Ying
|
| Speaker:
|
Vice
Chancellor Emeritus,
The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
The Honourable Sir. Alister McIntyre
|
| Closing
Remarks: |
Pro
Vice Chancellor and Principal, The University
of the West Indies, Mona Campus
Professor The Honourable Kenneth Hall
|
