Ua hoʻokumu ka Organization of American States (OAS) i kahi papahana US $500,000 e kōkua i nā ʻoihana mākaʻikaʻi liʻiliʻi a me waena (SMTE) o ka ʻāina e kūkulu i ke kūpaʻa i nā pōʻino kūlohelohe.

Ua hoʻokumu ʻia ka papahana ma ka 2nd Global Conference on Jobs and Inclusive Growth: Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises (SMTEs), i mālama ʻia ma Montego Bay Convention Center e ke aupuni a me ka United Nations World Tourism Organization ma Ianuali 29.

Ma ke kamaʻilio ʻana ma mua o ka hoʻokuʻu ʻia ʻana, ua haʻi ʻo Kuhina Tourism Hon. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Edmund Bartlett, "ʻOliʻoli loa mākou i ka loaʻa ʻana o ka ʻike nui o ke Kakauolelo Nui o ka Hui o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa (OAS), ʻo Nestor Mendez, i ka hoʻomaka ʻana aʻu e hauʻoli nei e ʻōlelo aku e lawe mai ana i nā makana. ʻO kēia papahana hoʻoikaika koʻikoʻi koʻikoʻi no kā mākou SMTE e kōkua i ke kūkulu ʻana i ka hiki o kā mākou ʻāpana e kōkua maikaʻi iā mākou e lilo i mea kūpaʻa i ka wā e hiki mai ai nā pilikia.

Kākoʻo ʻia ka papahana e ke Keʻena Mokuʻāina o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa a mālama ʻia e ka OAS Secretariat for Integral Development. E kōkua ʻo ia i nā ʻoihana mākaʻikaʻi liʻiliʻi ma ka Caribbean e lanakila i nā pilikia like ʻole e pili ana i ka hiki o nā Aupuni a me nā ʻoihana like ke hoʻomau i kā lākou ʻoihana i ka wā a ma hope o nā hanana pōʻino ma ka Caribbean.

ʻO nā ʻāina i hoʻonohonoho ʻia e pōmaikaʻi: Antigua a me Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Haiti, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, a me Trinidad a me Tobago.

E hoʻokō ʻia i loko o ʻelua makahiki, me ka manaʻo nui e hōʻemi i ka paʻakikī, ka hopena a me ka lōʻihi o nā haunaele i hana ʻia e kahi pōʻino i nā hana o nā ʻoihana liʻiliʻi ma ka Caribbean.

"ʻO ka Caribbean kekahi o nā wahi i hilinaʻi nui ʻia i ka mākaʻikaʻi ma ka honua a ʻaʻohe wahi ʻē aʻe nona ka huakaʻi a me ka ʻoihana mākaʻikaʻi e pili ana i nā pōʻino e like me ka Caribbean. ʻAʻole hiki ke hōʻole ʻia ʻo ka hoʻololi ʻana i ke aniau e hōʻike nei i kahi hoʻoweliweli i nā mokupuni liʻiliʻi e ulu ana a me nā wahi kahakai haʻahaʻa, ʻo ia hoʻi nā ʻāina o ka Caribbean, "wahi a Nestor Mendez.

Ua hoʻomaopopo pū ʻo ia "Ua ʻike ʻia ka OAS, ma waena o nā pono lōʻihi o ka ʻāina, ka pono no ka hoʻomākaukau ʻana i ka pōʻino e pili ana i ka mākaʻikaʻi a me ka hoʻokele pilikia, nā hoʻolālā kamaʻilio a me nā ʻano hana e hahai ai ma mua a ma hope o kahi pōʻino."

ʻO kēia 2nd Global Conference on Jobs and Inclusive Growth: Small and Medium Tourism Enterprises (SMTEs), he pane pololei ia i ka hālāwai kūkā o ka honua e pili ana i nā hana a me ka ulu ulu ʻana i mālama ʻia ma Jamaica ma 2017, ka mea i lawe mai i mua o ka nui o nā paʻakikī paʻakikī e kū nei. Nā SMTE, me nā pilikia o ke komo ʻana i ka hōʻaiʻē, ke kūʻai aku ʻana, ka ʻenehana a me ka hoʻomohala ʻoihana.

No laila ua ʻike ka poʻe hoʻonohonoho hālāwai kūkā he mea naʻaupō ke hana i kekahi hanana hou i ka nānā wale ʻia ma SMTE a me nā hana ʻoi loa e pili pololei i kā lākou ulu ʻana.