Amid concerns that there are few local participants and youths at the 13th Sustainable Tourism Conference being held here, Secretary General of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Hugh Riley said local economic constraints were taken into account by planners of the event and it is the first time youths were not involved.
“Cost was absolutely a factor that was taken into account [and] we made a very special effort to pay attention to local conditions,” Riley told Stabroek News.
Riley was at the time reacting to concerns by United States-based Guyanese Pro-fessor of civil and environmental engineering Maya Trotz and other delegates that locals could not have
