Community Tourism Training A Success
Nine Community Tourism Entities benefitted from a three day training activity in August at the
Knutsford Court Hotel. The highly interactive training activity introduced participants to the
Community Tourism Toolkit which offers guidelines to marketing, licensing and maintaining a
community Tourism business. The toolkit was designed through the partnership of the Minis-
try of Tourism, the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), The Jamaica Tourist Board and TPDCo.
The trainers for the workshop were; Mr. Hugh Shim, Executive Director of the Montego Bay Ma-
rine Park Trust (who was also instrumental in the implementation of the Team Jamaica Pro-
gramme) Ms. Judy Karwacki, expert Tourism professional, lead consultant for the Community Tour-
ism Toolkit and owner of Small Planet Consulting and Mr. Terry Hood, consultant and Principal of
the Northshore Leadership Project, both of whose businesses are based in Vancouver, Canada.
The production of the workshop was successful due to the hard work of the Prod-
uct Development and Community Tourism team at TPDCo, a hearty thank you to them.
Dr. Andrew Spencer(centre) joins the facilitators, trainers and participants on the final
day of the Jamaica Community Tourism Development Workshop