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For the new fiscal year 2019-20, Tourism Trinidad Limited’s (TTL) main goals are to increase visitor arrivals by 7% to 380,000; attain an average hotel occupancy rate of 64% and grow visitor expenditure. This builds on the current year’s tourism performance as Trinidad has already recorded 276,269 international visitors (an increase of 2% over 2018) for the period January to September.
Howard Chin Lee, Chairman of the Tourism Trinidad said, “This is an ambitious agenda for Trinidad’s tourism. Our focus is on developing a clearly identifiable Trinidad ‘brand’ to raise awareness of the destination throughout the world, deliver an outstanding visitor experience and establish Trinidad as a destination of choice. To this end, we have developed a comprehensive roadmap on how we can partner with government and stakeholders to take our tourism sector to new heights.”
Tourism Trinidad is also developing a framework to assist local communities to build on their tourism offerings to attract more visitors to this destination, create more jobs and strengthen its overall contribution to the national economy. In this regard, a one-year Strategic Action Plan has been developed and 19 new hires have been on-boarded to the company, to help drive the strategic agenda of the organisation.
Three key niches have been identified to grow tourism: Sports, Events and Conferences (Business).
The company will soon launch its brand identity and website for Destination Trinidad with marketing campaigns rolling out in major international markets around the globe. These campaigns, including a Diaspora campaign, aim to boost arrivals in the coming months and in the lead up to Carnival 2020 and attract visitors year-round to the destination.
The company will also be working with key partners, including air carriers and international travel trade, to deliver better and more sustained connectivity, introduce new routes and airlines to the destination; therein facilitating growth in visitor arrivals.
Plans are underway to revamp the company’s digital platforms to allow for the targeting of potential visitors with personalised messages and offers; all designed to appeal to their specific interests. The aim is to attract a monthly average of 2,500 unique visitors to the website and attain a reach of 30 million views through powerful global influencers.
Source: travelnewsdigest.in