All over the world, tourism workers are leaving the industry to find more lucrative and flexible opportunities elsewhere, warned Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Hon Edmund Bartlett, at the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA’s) Travel Marketplace in Puerto Rico on October 3rd. The Caribbean, as the most tourism-dependent region in the world, is not unaffected by these recent trends. Now, after the pandemic is finally over and tourism is back in full force, retaining staff is one of the biggest challenges for companies in the tourism industry. And since the Caribbean small island states receive a large chunk of their GDP and foreign exchange currencies (like US Dollars) from tourism, the problem is of national interest. Statistics illustrate how important … Continued