Objectives of the Council

The objectives of the Council shall include the following, (a) developing, establishing and monitoring plans and policies, procedures and guidelines, legislative measures and educational and training programmes necessary for the efficient management and development of 11 tourism in Belize in a manner beneficial to the public, tourists and members of the tourism industry; (b) identifying and adopting all such measures and policies that promote the favourable marketing of, and investment in, Belize as an international tourist destination; (c) developing, when necessary, draft legislative measures to regulate the growth and overall management of the tourism sector in a manner beneficial to the public, tourists and members of the tourism industry, and submitting such proposed legislation to the appropriate branches of Government for enactment; (d) ensuring that the tourism sector has an adequate supply of professionally trained and managerially capable persons who deliver high professional services to tourists who visit Belize; (e) developing, establishing and monitoring broad policy guidelines on public education and awareness programmes that will make the public more receptive to the economic, cultural, social and other benefits derived by Belize from tourism; (f) fostering and maintaining a strong interdependent partnership based on the principle of equal partnership and mutual respect between the nongovernmental organisations, statutory bodies and members of the tourism industry so as to create an enabling environment for 12 the full participation of these bodies in the development and management of tourism; (g) developing and implementing a Belize National Tourism Policy Plan based on the overall objectives of paragraphs (a) to (f) and disseminating in a continuous and timely manner, the contents of such a Policy Plan to enable the public, the Government, non- governmental organisations, statutory bodies and members of the tourism industry to appreciate the direction being taken in developing and managing tourism, and to make appropriate adjustments and changes consistent with the objectives of the Policy Plan.