A few days ago, the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) announced that it is to restructure its operations in the face of rising costs and the need to “elevate tourism development in the region”.
Its Chairman, the Minister of Tourism of St Lucia, Dominic Fedee, said that the CTO would be closing its London and New York offices by the end of January 2020 and would undertake a comprehensive audit of the role of its head office in Barbados; a process that could well involve further redundancies.
Although one has to feel particularly sorry for its outstanding professional leadership and staff in London, the restructuring is expected to significantly reduce CTO’s operational expenditure, giving it greater capacity to focus on the functions that Minister Fedee and others involved have identified.
