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“Let’s do it in the Caribbean,” the marketing<br />
and PR partner/Representative for the Caribbean<br />
Community Tourism family and all IIPT/SKAL<br />
Villages will be marketing the ‘Caribbean Community<br />
Experience’ through the Countrystyle Caribbean<br />
Vacations and Tours (COCAVAT) in partnership with<br />
Caribic/Olympia Tours Jamaica and Anchorage Ltd/<br />
Dominica Tours.<br />
At the recent IIPT Caribbean Community-based<br />
Tourism Study Tour and Conference held in Jamaica<br />
in November 2013, the Organization of Eastern<br />
Caribbean States (OECS) sponsored over 25<br />
community tourism entrepreneurs to participate,<br />
including representatives from Dominica. The IIPT in<br />
association with the Countrystyle Community Tourism<br />
Network branded Jamaica and the Caribbean as ‘the<br />
Home of Community Tourism’ which has now paved<br />
the way forward for the marketing of the Caribbean<br />
Community Experience vacations and tours.<br />
In June 2014, the Heart of Dominica community<br />
hosted an OECS Business Mission delegation to a<br />
fi eld trip and community lunch experience, aimed at<br />
giving a taste of the Heart of Dominica’s products<br />
and services.<br />
Leslassa Armour-Shillingford, Miss Dominica 2013,<br />
Miss Dominica World, and a three-titled Caribbean<br />
Queen was appointed as the IIPT Caribbean Youth<br />
Ambassador based on her local, regional and global<br />
sensitization work that promotes the ideals of the IIPT,<br />
and her outstanding representation and promotion<br />
of Dominica and the Caribbean.<br />
For further information, visit our websites at:<br />
www.accesscommunitytourism.com<br />
www.iipt.org<br />
Newtown Bay<br />
Photo: Dafar Armour Shillingford<br />
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