CARIBBEAN RESEARCH AND STATISTICAL OFFICERS ENHANCE DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS SKILLS
~ 20 senior officers CTO member countries participate in five-day workshop organised by the region’s tourism development agency ~
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Dec 7, 2009) – A five-day workshop aimed at helping member countries of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) strengthen their capacity to collect and analyse tourism data opens here today.
The 7-11 December workshop will augment the technical abilities of CTO members in their quest to expand and diversify their tourism research and data pool, said Winfield Griffith, CTO’s director of research and information technology.
The workshop will focus on executing and managing tourism surveys; processing and presenting data from the surveys; scientific analysis and use of tourism surveys and other data in private and public research and planning ; and use of modern technology in tourism research and data dissemination.
“It is important that we advance the research programme in the Caribbean in a consistent and coordinated manner to ensure that the economic and social contribution and impacts of tourism are measured accurately,” said Mr. Griffith.
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