Guyana wins three of region’s top five tourism awards

Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Tourism, Raye Sandy (left), receives the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Sustainable Tourism symbolic Mahogany Scroll from Indranauth Haralsingh. Trinidad and Tobago will host the next CTO conference.

Guyana clinched three of the five top tourism awards as the curtains came down on the 13th Sustainable Tourism Conference on Wednesday evening.

Earning its second award, the Rupununi Learners took the Caribbean Excellence in Sustainable Tourism Award, for delivering on a project aimed at improving the lives of Rupununi residents through educational enhancement in literacy and numeracy while preserving indigenous heritage.

Vice-President of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) Daniel Gajie, who is also a past President of the Rupununi Chamber of Commerce, expressed his