IGlobal Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre ukusungula amaSathelayithi ama-5 ase-Afrika

Ezokuvakasha zaseJamaica UNgqongqoshe uMhlonishwa. U-Edmund Bartlett umemezele ukuthi I-Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre (i-GTRCM) izosungula izikhungo zesathelayithi eKenya, eSeychelles, eNingizimu Afrika, eNigeria, naseMorocco ukuze zandise ukufinyelela kwazo kuleli zwekazi.

Lesi sivumelwano sisuka ezingxoxweni ezibanjwe emaphethelweni eseshini yama-23 ye UNWTO I-General Assembly, okwamanje eSt. Petersburg, eRussia.

Izikhungo Zesathelayithi zizogxila ezindabeni zesifunda futhi zizokwabelana ngolwazi ngesikhathi se-Nano ne-Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre. Bazobe sebesebenza njengama- think tanks ukuthuthukisa izixazululo ezingaba khona.

UNgqongqoshe ngamunye unesibopho sokuhlonza inyuvesi emazweni abo, ukusebenzisana neYunivesithi yaseWest Indies nokwengeza iGlobal Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre.

Imemorandamu yokuqonda efanele iyaphothulwa ukuze kube lula lesi sivumelwano, kuqala ngeSikhungo Sesathelayithi eKenya.

Lokhu kuza ngemva kokuthatha kukaMongameli weRiphabhulikhi yaseKenya, uMhlonishwa u-Uhuru Kenyatta njengoSihlalo Ohloniphekile we-GCRCM yase-Afrika ngenyanga edlule.

UMongameli Kenyatta ungena ezikhundleni ezihlonishwayo zikaNdunankulu, uMhlonishwa Kakhulu. U-Andrew Holness kanye noMhlonishwa, uMarie-Louise Coleiro Preca, owayenguMongameli wase-Malta, futhi abangabambisene abahloniphekile be-GCRMM.

Ohulumeni base-Jamaica kanye neRiphabhulikhi yaseKenya nabo basanda kusayina iSivumelwano Sokusebenzisana (i-MOU) sokwandisa ukubambisana kwezokuvakasha. Phakathi kwezindawo eziningi ezisohlwini lohlaka lokubambisana ukugqugquzela ezokuvakasha eziphephile, eziqotho nezisimeme; ukusebenzisana ekuxazululeni ubungozi obuhlobene nokuqina kwezokuvakasha nokulawulwa kwezinhlekelele, ngocwaningo nokuthuthukiswa, ukumela inqubomgomo kanye nokuphathwa kwezokuxhumana, nokuqeqeshwa nokwakhiwa kwamakhono.

Ngenkathi eseRussia, uNgqongqoshe ubelwela imizamo ye-GTCM. Wasebenzisa inkundla yakhe ukuze akhulume noMhlangano Jikelele ukuze akhulume ngokuphazamiseka kweCaribbean, ikakhulukazi egxile eBahamas kanye nokuhlangenwe nakho kwayo kwakamuva ngeSiphepho uDorian. Inkulumo yakhe yamukelwe ngabakwa UNWTO I-General Assembly, yona eye yaveza ubumbano nohulumeni nabantu baseBahamas.

I-Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre, eyamenyezelwa okokuqala ngowezi-2017, isebenza emhlabeni jikelele engabonakali ngezinselelo ezintsha kuphela, kodwa namathuba amasha ezokuvakasha emzamweni wokuthuthukisa umkhiqizo wezokuvakasha kanye nokuqinisekisa ukuthi ukusimama kwezokuvakasha emhlabeni jikelele. Inhloso enkulu yalesi Sikhungo ukusiza ukulungela indawo okuyiwa kuyo, ukuphatha kanye nokululama eziphazamisweni kanye/noma ezinkingeni ezithinta ezokuvakasha nezisongela umnotho nempilo emhlabeni jikelele.

UNgqongqoshe nethimba lakhe kulindeleke ukuthi babuye bevela eRussia ngoSepthemba 14, 2019.