With the onset of the pandemic, the world stopped. A previously unknown threat made us drastically change our way of living. This is the first entry in a series of blogposts about the structural changes that the pandemic brought to the tourism sector in the Caribbean. Countries where the sector represented 30%, 40%, 50%, or even more of their GDP saw their tourist activity … [Read more...] about Has the region’s tourism sector already overcome the pandemic’s impact?
Olga Gomez Garcia
Olga Gomez Garcia is a development economist specializing in the travel and tourism sector. She currently works as an Operations Lead Specialist for the Tourism Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank. Olga is the tourism focal point for several Central American and Caribbean countries. She coordinates the tourism sector policy dialogue and leads the sustainable tourism development policy, investment, and research projects for the countries assigned. Olga has a Master in Business Administration specializing in the tourism sector from Cornell University (Ithaca, USA) and ESSEC Business School (Paris, France) and a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management from Carlos III University (Madrid, Spain). Olga has been working at the IDB since 2008. Previously, she worked as an economic and tourism sector advisor for several years for the Spanish Parliament; and as a technical director for the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in various tourism development projects. Olga has also worked for several private sector companies, such as Mazars Tourism, Procter and Gamble, Groupe Le Duff, Pizza Hut, Olara Música, and Ferrovial. Olga taught Tourism Economics, Business Management, Corporate Strategy and Strategic Marketing at Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (Madrid, Spain) at their Master and undergraduate tourism programs and Tourism Governance and Destination Management at the Spanish National Public Administration Institute.
Imagining a Post-COVID Tourism Recovery
Countries around the world have endured over a year of extreme uncertainty in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, and economies in the Caribbean have suffered more than most. But with the increasing availability of vaccines and prospects for a resumption of international travel, light is emerging at the end of the Pandemic tunnel. With this in mind, The Inter-American … [Read more...] about Imagining a Post-COVID Tourism Recovery