A researcher has said Jamaica and other Caribbean countries could experience a decline in tourist arrivals from Europe due to climate change and measures to address the global phenomenon.

Indi McLymont Lafayette, researcher at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, said there will be fewer incentives for visitors to travel to the Caribbean due to climate change.

She said as Europe gets warmer, some persons will no longer see the need to vacation in the Caribbean for sun.

The Caribbean School of Media and Communication (CARIMAC) has been contracted to develop a new online course aimed at training persons in the Caribbean region on how to prepare for natural disasters and to manage communication in the aftermath.

Offered by the Disaster Risk Reduction Centre of the Institute for Sustainable Development at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, the contract calls for the development of a course called, ‘Communication Planning and Media Relations for Disaster Risk Reduction’.