Edmund Bartlett, stepped to the podium at the Canadian-Caribbean Tourism Resilience Symposium in Canada today, he did something few tourism ministers attempt. Bartlett also became the driving force behind the United Nations’ adoption of Global Tourism Resilience Day, observed annually on February 17—a landmark recognition that resilience had become an international tourism priority. The Global Tourism Resilience FundInstead, he renews his call for a Global Tourism Resilience Fund. Over the past decade, he has consistently pushed ideas that initially appeared ambitious—from creating a Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre to persuading the United Nations to establish Global Tourism Resilience Day. Today’s speech suggests his next objective is even more ambitious: repositioning resilience as the organizing principle for global tourism policy.