Despite assurances that there would have been significant participation on the final day of the Caribbean Sustainable Tourism Conference being held here just a handful of hurriedly mobilized University of Guyana students were present yesterday and they did not actively participate in the session.
Stabroek News was told by the students that it was only yesterday morning, a few hours before the start of the General Session V:-Role of Youth in Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change for Sustainable Tourism that they were told to be at the Conference Centre for 1:30 pm. “We were told by a lecturer this morning to find twelve students and go to the conference centre for 1:30”, said one of the students, from the University of Guyana, to affirmative nods from his nine counterparts.
Delegates, both regional and international, expressed their disappointment that the session which was chaired by Tameca Sukhdeo-Singh, a tourism lecturer at the University of Guyana only had
