OVER 100 micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are expected to benefit from an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) funded project that will lend technical support and capacity building to them, while creating more tourism-related jobs.
During a Press conference yesterday at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, it was pointed out that the multifaceted project, Â tripartite agreement between the IDB, the Ministry of Tourism and the Barbados Small Business Association (BSDA), was funded under the Multi-Lateral Investment Fund to the tune of US$240 500.
The project, themed Development Of Tourism Micro-Projects In Barbados, seeks to improve the quality of products offered to tourists in three main sectors of agro-processing, woodworks and the small hotels subsectors, and is expected to create over 400 jobs. (CT)
