ST JOHN’S, An­tigua — Caribbean tourism lead­ers are mov­ing to re­shape the re­gion’s tourism econ­o­my with a new push to build a re­gion­al lo­gis­tics and sup­ply chain frame­work aimed at keep­ing more tourism dol­lars with­in Caribbean economies.

The ini­tia­tive was un­veiled dur­ing a press con­fer­ence at the 44th edi­tion of the Caribbean Trav­el Mar­ket­place 2026 in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da, where re­gion­al of­fi­cials out­lined plans for a new work­ing com­mis­sion fo­cused on strength­en­ing tourism sup­ply chains, im­prov­ing busi­ness in­te­gra­tion and re­duc­ing de­pen­dence on im­ports.

Lead­ing the dis­cus­sions were Dona Reg­is-Pros­per, Ian Good­ing-Edghill and Ed­mund Bartlett.