Caribbean Tourism Organization Hosting Turks and Caicos Conference

By: - August 11th, 2023
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The Caribbean Tourism Organization is bringing back its popular State of the Tourism Industry Conference this fall, Caribbean Journal has learned. 

The Barbados-based organization is relaunching SOTIC, as it’s known, this October in Turks and Caicos. 

The event, which brings together stakeholders from across the Caribbean’s most important industry, will run from Oct. 8-13. 

It will be the first time SOTIC will have been held since 2018, part of a renewed push to reenergize the Caribbean Tourism Organization. 

For more, visit the Caribbean Tourism Organization

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