Celebrating the Tourism and Peace Nexus for World Tourism Day 2024
It is truly an honour to be a part of a discipline that recognizes the importance of peace. Tourism was universally recognized as a vehicle or tool for creating and sustaining …
Jamaica Election Day 2025 in Retrospect
Jamaica’s general election for 2025 has come and it has gone. When I look back to the elections of the 1970s, of the 1980s and of the 1990s, I have to …
Accelerating Green Investment For Sustainable Tourism Development
The following is a speech delivered in my capacity as keynote speaker at the annual Future Leaders of Tourism Conference held at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus on …
Employee burnout: Whose responsibility?
A recent research on staff turnover in the hotel sector, with reference to local and international contexts, finds that one of the main contributing variables to staff turnover is employee burnout. …
Gross National Happiness
In 2018 I attended a conference pertaining to sustainable development and sat in one of the sessions where research was presented on Gross National Happiness (GNH). The importance of this phenomenon …
Colourful Economy For Tourism in 2022
It is with mixed emotions that I write this article. I am wishing the management and all the readers of the Public Opinion a very prosperous 2022 and also saddened by …
Mandatory Vaccine For Tourism Workers – Is This Around The Corner?
The tourism ministry in Jamaica has been constantly encouraging workers in the industry to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. The seriousness of this matter led to the establishment of the …
Lessons From Gordon “Butch” Stewart
Congratulations to the Public Opinion on its 100th publication. I am honoured to contribute to the publication at this time and what better way to chronicle my thoughts on the late …
Tourism Today
Sunday, September 27, 2020 marked the celebration of World Tourism Day under the theme: “Tourism and Rural Development”. This according to the United Nation World Tourism Organization / UNWTO is in …
Yield… Be Responsible!
“If you cyah hear you must feel” ….”Who cyah hear will feel”…. “If you don’t listen you will not learn”. These Jamaican colloquial statements are understood by many children and grandchildren …
The Art Of War In Action
Having spent some time reflecting on the management of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Jamaica, my thoughts zeroed in on The Art of War, written over 2,000 years ago and …