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GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana continues to grow as a destination of choice for travellers. As of December 31, 2018, Guyana recorded a total number of visitor arrivals of 286,732 passengers; a 15.93 percent increase from the 247,330 visitors Guyana welcomed in 2017. Continue reading
ESSEQUIBO: Always BANKS Country – by Francis Quamina Farrier
The Bolivian Republic of Venezuela has once again been flexing its military muscle in the face of its smaller peace-loving neighbour, The Cooperative Republic of Guyana. But from all indications, the many international friends of the only English-Speaking country in South America, are solidly backing-up Guyana – BANKS Country – and encouraging it to yield, “NOT A BLADE OF GRASS”, or “one carass”; lyrics in the popular Dave Martins patriotic song which also states, “Not a drop of water, from the Pomeroon”, (river) where Dave Martins was born. One of the reasons is that Essequibo, like the rest of “The Land of Many Waters”, including the bottled water, Tropical Mist, remains, “BANKS COUNTRY”. Continue reading
The View from Europe: Tourism should not be taken for granted – By David Jessop
David Jessop
By David Jessop
According to the Central Bank of Barbados, the island’s tourism output slowed in 2018 to an estimated 0.6 per cent despite there being a 2.8 per cent increase in visitor arrivals last year. The reasons given were that visitors were spending less; some were not staying as long, and cruise ship calls had declined.
The report gave rise to a comment by the president of the Barbados Economic Society, Simon Naitram, that if tourism is to be a viable source of broad-based economic growth, then the industry needs to evolve. The figures, he said, were an early warning about the structure of the tourism industry and the need for “innovation, investment, and broad social engagement.” Continue reading →
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