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industry stakeholders from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica,
Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis,
Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago will participate in a two-day
workshop organized by the Organization of American States (OAS).
Titled, “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Caribbean Tourism
Industry: Opportunities for Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises,”
the workshop will take place Wednesday, September, 8, 2010, at the
Grenada Grand Beach resort.
This workshop forms part of a
wider initiative developed by the OAS Executive Secretariat for
Integral Development (SEDI) with the support of the Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA) and in partnership with the
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean (ECLAC) and the Young Americas Business Trust (YABT). It
is aimed at promoting Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) among
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America and the
Caribbean.
The objectives of the training are to create
awareness of CSR and its relevance to the Caribbean tourism
industry; to build the capacity of the public and private sectors in
the tourism industry to support and promote CSR; to build the
capacity of tourism practitioners in the Caribbean to engage in CSR
activities and integrate these into their operations; and to provide
tools and resources to enable the implementation of CSR
initiatives.
As part of the CSR program, a regional
initiative was developed to deliver CSR training to public- and
private-sector tourism representatives in the 14 OAS Member States
participating in the Small Tourism Enterprise Program (STEP) managed
by the OAS Department of Economic Development, Trade and Tourism.
Three workshops were planned as part of this initiative: the first
was successfully executed in Saint Lucia in mid-September 2009, the
second was held in The Bahamas in November 2009, and the one in
Grenada will be the final installment of this initiative.
For more information, visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.
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