The As­so­ci­a­tion of Caribbean States (ACS) is col­lab­o­rat­ing with re­gion­al agen­cies–Air­ports Coun­cil In­ter­na­tion­al (ACI), Latin Amer­i­ca and Caribbean Air Trans­port As­so­ci­a­tion (AL­TA), Caribbean Tourism Or­gan­i­sa­tion (CTO), and the In­ter­na­tion­al Air Trans­port As­so­ci­a­tion (IA­TA)–to host the Sec­ond Caribbean Avi­a­tion Day.This year's event will be cel­e­brat­ed un­der the theme Im­prov­ing the Pas­sen­ger Ex­pe­ri­ence and Se­cur­ing Sus­tain­able Mar­ket Growth in the Caribbean: A Re­view of the Lat­est Tech­no­log­i­cal Trends, Op­er­a­tional Best Prac­tices, Cost Im­pli­ca­tions and Strate­gies for 2014 and Be­yond.

Caribbean Avi­a­tion Day 2014 will be held on Sep­tem­ber 16 in St Thomas, US Vir­gin Is­lands, one day pri­or to the CTO State of the In­dus­try Con­fer­ence. This event will gath­er the re­gion­al tourism and trans­port au­thor­i­ties as well as CEOs and se­nior ex­ec­u­tives of air­lines op­er­at­ing with­in the Greater Caribbean. Avi­a­tion Day meet­ings are in­tend­ed to pro­vide a plat­form for di­a­logue among the re­gion­al tourism and trans­port sec­tors and fa­cil­i­tate the for­ma­tion of strate­gic al­liances among key re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al stake­hold­ers. In this re­gard, the meet­ing will dis­cuss im­por­tant mat­ters per­tain­ing to con­nec­tiv­i­ty, pas­sen­ger se­cu­ri­ty, bor­der con­trol tech­nolo­gies and air traf­fic man­age­ment among oth­ers, in­dica­tive of the op­por­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges fac­ing the re­gion.

The dis­cus­sions aim to en­hance the knowl­edge and aware­ness of re­gion­al pol­i­cy mak­ers in sup­port of de­vel­op­ment of strate­gies to ad­dress is­sues af­fect­ing in­tra-re­gion­al trav­el and air con­nec­tiv­i­ty among the coun­tries of the Greater Caribbean.Speak­ers in­clude civ­il avi­a­tion au­thor­i­ties, tourism and avi­a­tion in­dus­try ex­perts and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of re­gion­al tourism and air trans­port or­gan­i­sa­tions.