OCHO RIOS, Jamaica – Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Hon Edmund Bartlett has hailed as transformational the transfer by native grown resort chain, Sandals Resorts Worldwide, to leverage Synthetic Intelligence (AI) to coach its workers, by way of the usage of digital and augmented actuality.
Noting that the initiative had the potential to dramatically reshape the training and coaching panorama within the tourism sector and different industries Minister Bartlett stated: “This platform provides the potential to advance training and coaching outcomes to unprecedented ranges, thereby guaranteeing that our workforce isn’t just educated but additionally well-equipped to fulfill the long run wants and challenges of a dynamic trade that operates in a quickly altering surroundings.”
International Partnership
Minister Bartlett was making the keynote deal with at yesterday’s launch (October 5) of a partnership between the Sandals Company College (SCU) and EON Actuality, a worldwide pioneer in digital and augmented actuality software program growth, at Sandals Royal Plantation resort. He stated “in a dynamic and consistently altering world panorama, it’s by the use of improvements such because the SCU-EON XR Platform that we will assure our continued relevance and preserve a aggressive edge.”
He opined that such endeavours would assure the sustained place of tourism as a worldwide chief in training and coaching benchmarks, including that “the aim is to not merely set up a platform, however extra importantly it’s to herald the arrival of a brand new paradigm in training transformation.”
Sandals has begun utilizing the know-how to coach its over 16,000 workers throughout the Caribbean. Terming the launch of the SCU-EON XR Platform a milestone innovation, Minister Bartlett acknowledged that the enterprise will mark the beginning of Jamaica’s tourism employees transitioning into a brand new technological age.
Revolutionary Platform
Terming the platform as revolutionary, Mr. Bartlett stated “the utilization of synthetic intelligence and prolonged actuality might be employed to redefine coaching and capability constructing, significantly throughout the tourism trade.”
He additionally noticed the digital platform taking part in a pivotal position in making certain the resilience of the tourism sector and maintained that “in pursuit of excellence in tourism, it’s all the time essential to acknowledge and have fun initiatives and innovators who push the boundaries past the transformative capabilities of contemporary know-how.”
Additionally participating within the launch have been Government Chairman, Sandals Resorts Worldwide, Adam Stewart; Senior Company Director, SCU, Dr Luz Longsworth; Chairman, SCU Advisory Board, Wayne Cummings; and Co-Founder and President of EON Actuality, Mats Johannson, who demonstrated the usage of the EON XR, with Minister Bartlett and Mr. Stewart personally collaborating.
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Originally posted 2023-10-07 01:05:34.