SVG to celebrate Tourism Month from Tomorrow

The Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Sustainable Development and Culture joins the rest of the Caribbean region in celebrating Caribbean Tourism Month in November, 2025.

The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), is referred in a release from the Ministry of Tourism as indicating that Caribbean Tourism Month celebrations aim:

• To raise awareness among Caribbean people of the importance of tourism in the Caribbean,

• To enhance the profile of the Caribbean tourism sector in the marketplace.

• To reflect on the invaluable impact of tourism on the economic, social and cultural well being in the Caribbean,

• To attract positive media coverage for and of the Caribbean and the local tourism product, and,

• To celebrate the diversity of what the Caribbean offers.

This year, the CTO has launched of a regional storytelling initiative that will anchor Caribbean Tourism Month in November and celebrate the theme “Caribbean Cultural Mosaic:

Rejuvenating Heritage and Authenticity”.

Under the subtheme “Our Cultural Gem”, the initiative will showcase short features from CTO’s member destinations that highlight the

traditions, creativity and resilience that make the Caribbean a world leader in culture-based tourism.

Tourism month activities in St. Vincent and the Grenadines will be held under the local tourism awareness slogan ‘Tourism is Everyone’s Business: Live it, Love it, Embrace it’. The month long activities coordinated by the Department of Tourism in conjunction with the SVG Tourism

Authority and SVG Hotel and Tourism Association will seek to heighten local awareness on the significant contribution of sustainable tourism to the well-being of the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Activities for Tourism Month 2025 include tourism education school visits and field trips, a “Know Your Country” tour, a workshop on hotel maintenance, tourism chit-chat programmes on radio, as well as visitor appreciation days at the Kingstown Cruise Terminal and Argyle

International Airport. The month will officially commence with a Church Service at the Streams of Power Church in Sion Hill where staff and stakeholders will come together for corporate worship.