Pariwisata Jamaika Menteri, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, njaluk pangembangan strategi pertumbuhan khusus kanggo negara-negara Persemakmuran supaya bisa pulih saka pengaruh pandemik COVID-19.
Dheweke ngomong sajrone Forum Bisnis Persemakmuran 2022 sing bubar rampung ing Kigali, Rwanda, sing fokus ing Pariwisata lan Lelungan Lestari.
Menteri nyathet yen "pariwisata minangka garis urip negara Persemakmuran sing ana ing wilayah sing paling gumantung ing pariwisata, kalebu Karibia. Dheweke nambahake manawa "rumusan pemulihan ekonomi lan strategi pertumbuhan pasca-COVID-19 kanggo negara-negara persemakmuran bakal dadi gamechanger."
Nanging, Menteri Pariwisata negesake manawa kanggo negara-negara Persemakmuran bakal "mbutuhake supaya dheweke cepet-cepet mikir maneh kerangka kerja kemitraan ekonomi sing wis ana kanthi tujuan nyelarasake maneh karo wates perdagangan internasional sing dikarepake."
Pak Bartlett ujar manawa pamindhahan kasebut bakal "nyumbangake ijol-ijolan ekonomi sing tambah nilai ing antarane negara-negara cilik lan negara-negara Persemakmuran sing luwih gedhe," lan uga nyatakake yen "iki bakal nambah kapasitas intra-regional kanggo ngasilake surplus ekonomi lan nahan luwih akeh entuk manfaat saka pembangunan mikroekonomi."
Pak Bartlett uga ngajak negara-negara Persemakmuran supaya njupuk langkah-langkah proaktif kanggo ningkatake konvergensi pariwisata lan perdagangan supaya bisa entuk keuntungan ekonomi.
Iki minangka Menteri Bartlett nyatakake keprihatinan manawa sanajan pangembangan pariwisata sajrone pirang-pirang taun, negara-negara Persemakmuran durung entuk hadiah sing nyata.
Dheweke nerangake manawa industri pariwisata duweni potensi kanggo nambah konvergensi ekonomi ing antarane negara-negara Persemakmuran, nanging sanajan "laju fenomena pertumbuhan lan ekspansi pariwisata sajrone pirang-pirang taun, iki ora menehi keuntungan sing cukup kanggo negara-negara persemakmuran."
Dheweke negesake manawa umume negara-negara Persemakmuran ngekspor utamane menyang negara-negara sing ana ing zona geografis langsung, lan nambahake manawa iki "nyegah supaya ora nahan akeh bathi saka industri pariwisata." Iki dheweke duka, nyumbang kanggo tingkat perdagangan pariwisata sing murah kanthi ekonomi sing luwih gedhe.
Pak Bartlett nandheske yen nuwuhake konvergensi ekonomi sing luwih gedhe ing antarane negara-negara Persemakmuran bisa mbantu nyepetake pembangunan ekonomi Persemakmuran, sing sacara kolektif dadi pasar sing cukup gedhe adhedhasar populasi donya. Dheweke uga nyathet yen iki bisa digunakake kanggo ningkatake wutah ing wilayah perdagangan ekspor.
APA sing kudu dijupuk saka ARTIKEL INI:
- He explained that the tourism industry has the potential to significantly boost economic convergence among Commonwealth countries, noting however that despite “the phenomenal pace of tourism growth and expansion over the years, it has delivered insufficient benefits to commonwealth states.
- The Tourism Minister stressed however, that for Commonwealth nations it would “require that they urgently rethink the existing framework of economic partnership with the goal of realigning it with the boundaries of international trade in their favor.
- Bartlett said that the move will “contribute to more value-added economic exchanges among smaller countries and with larger countries of the Commonwealth,” noting too that “this will enhance their intra-regional capacity to generate economic surpluses and retain more of the benefits derived from microeconomic development.
