Having regard to the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and its global impact on the well-being of the Caribbean and the institutions that sustain the economies of the region, the Caribbean Public Health Agency’s (CARPHA) primary focus for much of this year has been on reducing the economic impact which the pandemic has had on the tourism-dependent countries of the region.
One such measure has been to seek to help revitalise the globally debilitated tourism sector through the implementation of safety and health measures that will bring a measure of assurance to both nationals of the respective countries as well as visitors. This, in order to boost visitor arrivals to those Caribbean territories whose economies are almost entirely dependent on visitor arrivals and have already been hard hit by the ravages of the pandemic.