Actions Areas
Tourism

 

Making The Five Year Tourism Development Plan Happen
Be one of those who are expanding Guyana’s powerful tourism potential – by strengthening tourism operations through marketing, community involvement, creating new attractions, improving hospitality skills and standards, improving air access and boosting investments.

1. Focus of the Action Team
With assistance from the Inter-American Development Bank, Guyana has prepared a 5 Year Tourism Development Plan to move the sector forward. The Action Team ‘Making the 5 Year Tourism Development Plan Happen’ deliberated, within the constraints of time to identify a few key areas which are essential to the implementation of the Plan and the development of the sector.

2. Main Themes and Strategies Addressed
Ms. Cathy Hughes, President of THAG gave a brief overview of the sector and indicated that as part of the development the 5 Year Plan there was the involvement of key stakeholders from the public and private sector. She identified 5 critical areas which are key to making the Plan happen, these being Security and Political Stability; Tourism Administration; Marketing and Public Relations; Accessibility; Financing and Investment and a number of others including Product Development and Infrastructure, Standards and Training.

Minister Clinton Collymore delivered a guest presentation where he alluded to the need to have a clean environment for the development of tourism. He alluded to the needs for a change in attitudes towards the environment which will require efforts not only of the City Councils and NDCs but all Guyanese to make Guyana a tourist attraction.

Minister Nadir pointed out that over the last 5 years there has been an increase in visitor arrivals to Guyana and alluded to 2005 as the highest number of arrivals. He indicated that the 5 Year Tourism Development Plan built on the foundations laid by a number of other sector Plans and Strategies and was widely consulted on. The idea of the Plan was to double the current levels of tourism in 5 years by identifying concrete actions and costs for implementation.

3. Key Initiatives Identified

Initiative	Leaders of the Initiative
Tourism Development – Accessibility	Learie Barclay Carla James Chandra
Marketing and Public Relations
Financing and Investment	GTA & THAG

4. Summary of Next Steps for Action Team
Time constraints did not allow for a discussion on Next Steps.

5. Leadership Team

Private	Public	Facilitators
Team Cathy Hughes (THAG) Sean McGrath (THAG)	Min. Manzoor Nadir (MINTIC) Indira Anandjit (GTA) Kathy Whalen (LEAP)	Shyam Nokta (MINTIC) Jocelyn Williams (GTIS) Donald Sinclair (UG)

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