The Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) has embarked on a series of sensitisation workshops to highlight coronavirus (COVID-19) protocols, which will govern the tourism sector when it reopens on June 15.
These workshops target tourism workers as well as other stakeholders in the sector and will be held over the course of sixdays, from June 8 to June 15, with the exception of Saturday (June 13) and Sunday (June 14).
The sessions are being held both virtually, via Microsoft Teams, and face-to-face at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St. James, beginning at 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., and the Ocho Rios Cruise Pierin St. Ann at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
Training Manager for the TPDCo, Western Region, Megan Mollison, shared that the protocols set in place are necessary to ensure the safety of tourism stakeholders.
“We have to go back into the industry, and we have to try to be as safe as possible. We have our families, we have our communities and we have to protect ourselves,” she said.
Ms. Mollison implored tourism workers to wear proper COVID-19 prevention gear to stave the spread of the illness to their families.
She added that returning to the industry under the new protocols will be a “mammoth task, but we have to go back out there, we have to go back to our jobs, but we have to be safe”.
