{"id":244847,"date":"2004-01-20T18:20:48","date_gmt":"2004-01-20T23:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/01\/preparations-for-tourism-conference"},"modified":"2004-01-20T18:20:48","modified_gmt":"2004-01-20T23:20:48","slug":"preparations-for-tourism-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/01\/preparations-for-tourism-conference","title":{"rendered":"Preparations For Tourism Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was stated by Director General of Tourism, Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><\/p>\n<p>Several committees convened during the planning stages to address some important agenda items. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>One panel, headed by Frank Comito, Executive Vice President of the Bahamas Hotel Association, and Beverly Saunders, VP, Organisation Development &#038; Training at Atlantis Resort, also comprised representatives from The Bahamas&#8217; major hotel properties, education institutions, trade unions, and other tourism affiliates to collaborate on the role of education in a tourism-based economy. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The final step for the group was a meeting with the conference&#8217;s planning committee and the Director of Education, Iris Pinder, to discuss the Ministry of Education&#8217;s national education plan and its compatibility with the country&#8217;s current and projected needs. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;One of the most important things about the coming conference is that because of the planning committee&#8217;s thorough background work and consultation with all interested parties, we&#8217;re going to spend the week discussing practical and informed solutions for moving forward &#8211; not just talking about existing problems,&#8221; said Mr. Vanderpool-Wallace. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The conference is scheduled for January 26-30 at the Wyndham Nassau Resort, and will be opened by Prime Minister Perry G Christie. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparations for the First National Tourism Conference began months ago with detailed research into factors contributing to some of the industry&#8217;s biggest problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}