BY JOHN HOUANIHAU
Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has shared the GNUT’s vision for the tourism industry at the recent World Government Summit held in Dubai.
The theme for this year’s summit is Shaping Future Governments.
Speaking to local media after his return on Sunday Manele said in his remarks at the tourism roundtable, that he shares the government’s vision for tourism in the coming decades to foster a model of tourism that ensures environmental sustainability, cultural preservation and community empowerment while driving economic growth.
He said he also highlighted the GNUT 2035 goals to increase visitor arrivals to 100,000 per annum, secondly, boost tourism’s contributions contribution to GDP, thirdly increase employment opportunities for local Solomon Islanders in the tourism sector, expand and improve quality room inventory and build a highly trained and skilled tourism workforce.
He said that he also further highlighted to partners present that to achieve these targets the government has prioritised six pillars of interventions.
He said that the six pillars are an investment in infrastructure and connectivity, sustainable tourism development, destination marketing and promotion, regulatory and policy reforms, public-private partnerships and international collaboration and invite global partnership and investment.
He said that more than 30 heads of state and governments, over 80 international organisations, 140 government delegations, and 6,000 participants, including leading global experts, attended the summit.
He said that the third edition of the WGS focused on six key themes including effective governance and accountability, financing the future and the global economy, climate crisis mitigation, and resilient cities, human-centric futures and capacity building, global health transformations and emerging frontiers and the future.
PM Manele said that addressing various aspects of these themes were eight plenary sessions with each plenary covering between four to six topics and speakers with 21 forums with each forum covering six to eight different topics presented by multiple speakers.
More than 40 roundtable sessions and multiple dialogue sessions according to PM.
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