Guyana to Host Major CTO State of the Tourism Industry Conference in October 2026: Everything You Need to Know

The Caribbean Tourism Organization has chosen Georgetown as the host for the upcoming State of the Tourism Industry Conference, which will take place for the first time in Guyana. This year’s SOTIC will take place in Guyana from October 5-9. SOTIC will host many industry executives, policymakers, participants, youth, and members of the global media and will include a variety of sessions on issues related to Caribbean tourism and the latest developments.

The State of the Tourism Industry Conference is the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s (CTO) primary conference on industry developments, cooperative opportunities, and innovative leadership in Caribbean tourism. The decision to host SOTIC in Guyana reflects the country’s readiness for leadership and partnership at the global and regional levels and demonstrates the growing confidence in Guyana’s tourism sector.

Importance of Strategy for Guyana and the Local Tourism

Guyana Tourism is becoming more relevant as SOTIC 2026 encourages MICE Tourism in the Caribbean. Guyana’s MICE Tourism will showcase the country’s ecotourism, rich cultural adventure, and business travel infrastructure, which is necessary for the diversification in the Caribbean Tourism MICE activities.

Guyana is now viewed as a contributor to the Caribbean Tourism MICE activities. Guyana is in a position to influence strategic decision-making in the Caribbean MICE activities as tourism shifts.

Conference Theme: Innovation, Resilience and Inclusive Growth

The main themes of the CTO summit are expected to focus on innovation, sustainability, community, and policy of the Caribbean tourism sector. The 2026 edition will focus on the regional theme, One Caribbean: Infinite Experiences, as the CTO focuses on community tourism and growth in the market.

Industry experts provide specific analyses of the state of the tourism industry and what the future of the tourism industry will look like. Each of these critiques will offer some pattern analysis and critiques of what challenges tourism may face, and the critiques will offer counsel to tourism professionals on what models and ideas they can use to help tourism’s ever-changing challenges. Critiques will help formulate working models to help solve challenges in the ever-changing world of tourism. Critics will help shape working models to solve the challenges facing the ever-changing world of tourism. These critiques will offer models and ideas to tourism professionals on what they can use to help tourism. Based on each critic’s analysis, interactive workshops and critiques will help historiography focus on the various challenges posed by the world.

Industry experts provide specific analyses of the state of the tourism industry and what the future of the tourism industry will look like. Each of these critiques will offer some pattern analysis and critiques of what challenges tourism may face, and the critiques will offer counsel to tourism professionals on what models and ideas they can use to help tourism’s ever-changing challenges. Critiques will help formulate working models to help solve challenges in the ever-changing world of tourism. Critics will help shape working models to solve the challenges facing the ever-changing world of tourism. These critiques will offer models and ideas to tourism professionals on what they can use to help tourism.

Regional Context and Broader Industry Engagement

The CTO has confidence, and with good reason, in the successful hosting of SOTIC 2025 in Barbados, and especially because of the integration of research and tourism’s relevance and future directions in the Caribbean. That edition was very successful in bringing together all stakeholders to make data-driven and innovative arrangements.

Expected Effects and Basis of Planning

For SOTIC 2026, national tourism authorities, in collaboration with the CTO, will initiate SOTIC event registration, programming, and venues in the official updates as the event date nears. The event’s presence in Georgetown is expected to improve the economy and facilitate the branding of the destination before the event.

With the conference, Guyana is asserting itself as an emerging tourism destination and also as an active player in the regional tourism discussions and development frameworks that promote balanced, sustainable, and inclusive growth.

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