Quality Tourism for the Caribbean (QTC): CAST and the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC) are currently developing a second QTC project which will implement the seven (7) health, safety and environment (HSE) standards developed during 1999-2002 under the first QTC project.

The second QTC project will feature four major components:

Component 1: Awareness-raising and Consensus Building. This component will achieve region-wide recognition of the HSE standards through promotion, marketing and negotiation with relevant national and international agencies.

Component 2: Training. This component will provide adequate training to the tourism industry staff who are expected to deploy the skills learned in their day to day job routines.  Training of consultants to provide assistance to participating tourism businesses and auditors, who will audit properties against the QTC standards, will also be provided.

Component 3: Implementation and Certification.  This component will develop and implement an accessible, regional QTC certification system with matching auditing and certification procedures and routines.

Component 4: Dissemination of Lessons Learned and Sustainability of QTC.  The purpose of this component is to disseminate the lessons learned from the implementation and certification process and provide valuable project monitoring and evaluation.