As Guyana continues the current tourism expansion push, persons in the industry must be encouraged by the number of interesting travel outreaches that have come to Guyana in recent times – cruise ship in Georgetown last year; birding groups in the Rupununi; visiting ocean-going yachts; a National Geographic cruise ship in the Essequibo, etc. The significance is that instead of just watching slick travel shows about Guyana on television, these persons are taking the meaningful step of paying money to come here. It’s an exercise in pleasure for them that has economic benefit for us. This week we saw yet another example of it as the cruise ship MV Minerva of the Swan Hellenic line tied up alongside the La Penitence wharf with a group of affluent visitors.
The vessel, carrying 335 passengers (most of them British) and 103 crew (most of them Filipino) spent 2 days here, with their local arrangements being handled by Teri and Gavin O’Brien of Wilderness Explorers. The tourists took in Kaieteur, Arrow Point, a Georgetown city tour,
