David Russell is the tourism specialist for CIDA’s CPEC project for the Caribbean. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he has 35 years experience in land use planning and tourism consulting. He was a Partner in one of Canada’s leading tourism consulting firms for 20 years and is now an independent tourism consultant for clients such as the OAS and International Finance Corporation. His tourism work has included tourism development strategies including eco and community tourism for Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Antigua and several destinations in Canada. In Asia, he was the lead tourism consultant for the development of tourism standards for Nepal in a wide variety of sectors including trekking, river rafting, nature walking tours and mountaineering. He has also completed feasibility and finance analysis for hotels, resorts and tourism attractions in Canada, the Caribbean, and Central America and designed the first self-financing ntional park in the Caribbean.

Abstract: 1.  OAS Small Tourism Enterpises Project
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