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FST Featured at the GTRCM Roundtable on Sargassum Threat to the Caribbean

" The unprecedented levels of sargassum seaweed that washed up on Caribbean beaches in 2018 resulted in estimated clean-up costs of US$120 million, according to Jamaica's Minister of Tourism and Co-Chair of the Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (GTRCM), Edmund Bartlett.

In addition to costly removal, tourism stakeholders have become increasingly concerned about the seaweed’s unsightly appearance, visitor complaints and the possibility of reputational damage, the tourism minister noted.

“As active stakeholders in the sector we understand the inestimable value of tourism to stable and prosperous Caribbean economies.  Tourism remains the single most important catalyst of sustained economic livelihoods in the region,” Bartlett said Friday in opening remarks at the GTRCM Roundtable on Sargassum at the University of the West Indies’ Region Headquarters, Mona. "

Published on 29 Jul, 2019

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