Earth Day22 and 23 April 2027Montego Bay, Jamaica

The Caribbean Climate Resilience Summit is the JHTA's flagship forum inside the UN International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism. Two days. Three hundred delegates. Commitments that are public, dated and measured for twelve months afterwards.

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The region does not lack climate conferences. It lacks one that is owned by the operators who carry the risk, that produces commitments rather than communiqués, and that returns a year later to report what was delivered.

One sharp question. Every session, partner and instrument exists to answer it.

COP negotiates. The WTTC summit sets industry positions. The CTO conference trains destinations. CCRS asks what Caribbean hotels will commit to, and deliver, on energy, waste and resilience in the next twelve months.

The 2024 edition proved the appetite: ministers, emergency managers and general managers in a member property on a working day. Its lesson was equally clear. The value of a room ends when the room empties, unless the event is built backwards from what it leaves behind.

Why April 2027

Four forces converge on one week in Montego Bay.

The calendar is doing the work for us. The summit sits inside a United Nations year, a national rebuild, a new regional framework and an open policy question that the industry alone can answer.

01

The UN International Year

2027 is the International Year of Sustainable and Resilient Tourism, proclaimed by the General Assembly and credited to a Jamaican initiative. A private-sector flagship inside that Year is a natural claim.

02

Build back better, visibly

With recovery from Hurricane Melissa at roughly seventy per cent and some 3,500 rooms returning in the first quarter, April is the moment the rebuild is most visible and most testable.

03

A new regional framework

The UN Caribbean cooperation framework begins on 1 January 2027 with economic and ecosystem resilience as its first pillar. The summit is the industry's first contribution to it.

04

A Fund without a response

The proposed Caribbean Tourism Resilience Fund has no private-sector reply yet. The policy dialogue on Day One is where the industry gives one.

Programme architecture

Day One is evidence. Day Two is commitment.

Short, rehearsed talks. No reading from slides. Everything recorded and published within thirty days. Every session has a named output that feeds the Action Brief.

Thursday 22 April · Earth Day

Day One

Evidence
Opening

Minister of Tourism, the environment and climate portfolio, the UN Resident Coordinator and the JHTA President. Member survey headline results in ten minutes: what members said they need.

Keynote: Rebuilding better

The national reconstruction programme and what it asks of the tourism sector.

Track plenaries, rotating

Three 45-minute blocks. Each opens with the evidence, then two ten-minute property case talks, then a moderated exchange.

The Finance Room

Pre-booked one-to-one meetings between properties and development banks, commercial lenders, insurers and solar-as-a-service providers. Runs all afternoon.

Property clinics

Practical sessions by property size: energy audit to financing; waste separation to supplier take-back; hurricane plan to insurance evidence. Checklists issued.

Policy dialogue

The industry's response to the proposed Caribbean Tourism Resilience Fund, the TEF ring-fence proposal and marine spatial planning. Ministers and agencies in the room.

Reception

Hosted by the host property. The youth track presents its three ideas.

Friday 23 April

Day Two

Commitment
Field visits

Three routes: a rebuilt coastal property; a solar and water retrofit; a mangrove or sanctuary site with its community partner.

Responsible Tourism Alliance signing

Signatory groups sign with the JHTA as Convener. Each signatory names one commitment per track, on stage.

Awards and closing

One award, independently judged. The commitments list is read and published live. The 2028 host is announced. Lunch closes the event.

Then: the twelve months

Six-month progress check on Global Tourism Resilience Day, 17 February 2028. Full scorecard read at the opening of the second edition.

Three tracks, one finance thread

Energy. Circularity. Resilience.

01

Renewable Energy and Resource Efficiency

From audit to financing. Solar capacity, water systems, efficiency retrofits and the business case that gets them approved.

  • Solar-as-a-service
  • Energy audits
  • Water
02

Waste and Circularity

Separation to supplier take-back. The reporting standard, the data call and the circular models that already work in member properties.

  • Take-back
  • Reporting standard
  • Diversion
03

Climate Risk and Business Resilience

Hurricane plan to insurance evidence. Coastal risk, mangroves, hardened roofs and the continuity planning that keeps rooms open.

  • Insurance evidence
  • Coastal risk
  • Continuity
Cross-cutting

The Finance Thread

Sell access to finance, not only exposure to an audience. Development banks, commercial lenders, insurers and reinsurers run through all three tracks and co-author the financing section of the Action Brief.

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Outcome instruments

Five things that make it a forum, not a conference.

Designed together, so that each feeds the next. Everything the event produces is published.

1

Responsible Tourism Alliance MoU

Each signatory sets a baseline and publishes at least one time-bound target in each track within ninety days of signing. Open accession for any JHTA member.

GovernanceJHTA-hosted secretariat; steering group of signatories plus one independent academic member. Signed Day Two.
2

The Montego Bay Action Brief

Six to ten pages: survey findings, three track recommendations, a policy asks list to Government, and the industry's formal response to the proposed Resilience Fund.

TimingDrafted through the webinars; published within thirty days of the event.
3

12-month Commitments Tracker

A public table: property or group, commitment, metric, baseline, target, deadline, status, evidence link.

TimingLive from the closing session; six-month check on 17 February 2028; full scorecard at the 2028 opening.
4

Resilient Property of the Year

One award, merit-judged against evidence, open to all sizes of member.

GovernanceIndependent academic jury; criteria published January 2027; presented Day Two.
5

Annual scorecard and footprint

Aggregate indicators: solar capacity installed, waste diverted, properties with tested hurricane plans. And the event's own measured footprint.

TimingFootprint published within thirty days; scorecard with the following year's Brief.
Model commitment clause

"Each Signatory shall, within ninety days of signature, set a baseline and publish at least one time-bound target in each of (a) renewable energy and efficiency, (b) waste reduction and circularity, and (c) climate and disaster resilience, and shall report progress to the Convener at six and twelve months for publication on the Alliance tracker."

Day Two · 07:30

Field visits are central, not optional.

Show the retrofit, the solar, the mangrove, the hardened roof. Three routes, each with alternates, each returning in time for the signing.

Coastal

A rebuilt coastal property

Build back better, walked room by room: what was lost, what was hardened, what the insurer asked for.

Energy and water

A solar and water retrofit

A heart-of-house tour of a working retrofit, with the numbers that justified it.

Nature

A mangrove or sanctuary site

With its community partner. The flood-protection value of a hectare, seen from the water.

Resilient Tourism Week

Two days at the centre. A week around it.

The two-day anchor sits inside a registered ring of affiliate events across the same week: utility, insurer, bank and NGO sessions, and property tours. Affiliates carry the official mark and feed the published report.

Propose an affiliate event
Utility sessionsGrid, tariffs and interconnection for properties going solar.
Insurer and reinsurer briefingsWhat evidence moves a premium.
Bank clinicsBlended finance and resilience facilities, explained for GMs.
Property toursMember-hosted, open to registered delegates.
Why it matters
The industry carries the risk. The region carries the consequences.
Commitments that are public, dated and measured
Voices in the room

Ministers, financiers, scientists and the operators who carry the risk.

Confirmed names are announced on Global Tourism Resilience Day, 17 February 2027. The roles below are those the programme is built around.

MT
Minister of TourismOpening address; International Year listing
Invited
UN
UN Resident CoordinatorTourism in the 2027 to 2031 cooperation framework
Invited
NR
National Recovery AuthorityKeynote: Rebuilding better
Invited
EC
Environment and Climate portfolioPolicy dialogue on the Resilience Fund
Invited
DB
Development finance institutionsThe Finance Room; financing section of the Brief
In discussion
GT
Tourism resilience research centreEvidence openers; independent award jury
Partner
GM
General managers, member propertiesTen-minute property case talks across three tracks
Confirmed format
Y
Youth trackThree ideas presented at the Day One reception
Confirmed
Partners and sponsorship

Buy a seat at the table, not a logo on a wall.

Every tier is tied to a working part of the event: a track, the finance room, a field visit, the award. Indicative ranges in US dollars; the prospectus carries the detail.

One available

Title Partner

$25,000 to $40,000
  • Presenting partner across the two days
  • Opening remarks and signing ceremony presence
  • Co-author of the Action Brief foreword
  • Twelve-month tracker partner
Three available

Track Partner

$12,000 to $18,000
  • Own one of the three tracks
  • Evidence opener co-presentation
  • Webinar co-host, January to March
  • Clinic participation
Plenary or finance room

Platinum

$8,000 to $12,000
  • Finance room table and pre-booked meetings
  • Plenary branding
  • Delegate places
Booth and webinar

Gold and Exhibitor

$1,500 to $7,500
  • Solutions showcase presence
  • Webinar co-host (Gold)
  • Field visit, youth and award sponsorships from $2,500
Government of JamaicaUnited Nations systemDevelopment banksCommercial banks and insurersRegional industry bodiesAcademic and research partnersCommunity and youth organisationsMedia partners
Registration

Curated. Capped at three hundred.

Admission is by tier so that the room stays senior and the places for youth and small members stay protected. Registration opens on Global Tourism Resilience Day, 17 February 2027.

By invitation

Invited

$0complimentary

Owners, general managers, ministers, agencies and financiers.

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Members

JHTA Member Delegate

$250to $350

Member properties and allied members. Includes field visits, clinics and the reception.

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Open

Non-member Delegate

$450to $600

Regional operators, suppliers and professionals, subject to curation.

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Protected places

Student and Youth

$50to $75

Tourism schools and youth climate projects. Reserved places; youth track participation.

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Fees are indicative planning figures in US dollars, calibrated to regional benchmarks, and will be confirmed with the prospectus. Partners and exhibitors register through the sponsorship desk. Media accreditation opens with registration.

Montego Bay · Rose Hall corridorA member property, chosen by host bid
Venue and dates

In a member property, on a working day.

The host is selected by a short bid among member groups, in the Montego Bay and Rose Hall corridor. The dates avoid Easter, the Caribbean Travel Marketplace and the GSTC conference, and sit before hurricane season. Every field-visit route carries an alternate and every plenary has a livestream fallback.

Anchor dates
Thursday 22 and Friday 23 April 2027
Fallback
14 and 15 April 2027
Format
Two days plus affiliate week
Announcement
17 February 2027, Global Tourism Resilience Day