Amid concerns that the high-profile Caribbean Sustainable Tourism Conference (STC) here had bungled by not making it affordable for Guyanese and youth in particular to participate, Tourism Minister Irfaan Ali yesterday said that many young people will be participating in one of today’s sessions before the confab wraps up.
He assured that youths would be fully involved in one of the general sessions which had been set aside for them from the inception. At the same time, he pointed out that the STCs are industry conferences that require participants to register and pay a fee before being accredited by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and not the Guyana Tourism Authority.
“The sustainable tourism conference is organized by the Caribbean Tourism Organization. It is an industry conference where you had to pay and you had to be registered and accredited to
