Some participants have left the 13th Caribbean Sustainable Tourism Conference (STC) with perplexing reactions about the contrasting conditions of Guyana’s environment- a garbage strewn capital and a pristine rainforest.
The Secretary General of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), Hugh Riley would only say that “we did the best job that we could under the circumstances to make sure that the conference was perfect” as he steered away from pronouncing definitively on the state of the city. He informed that the CTO would prefer to await the outcome of feedback on the city and by extension the overall conference through the completion of hard-copy and online evaluation forms.
He assured that the CTO would share the findings of the feedback with the Guyana government with the aim of helping the country plan for the future as it pertains to tourism development here. “We’ll see what
