The Tourism and Hospitality association of Guyana (THAG) continues to have serious doubts about the state of the sector’s health as well as misgivings about government’s commitment to the creation of a viable tourism sector, THAG President Christopher ‘Kit’ Nascimento has said.
Nascimento said Guyana’s tourism product compares favourably with any other in the Caribbean, and places the blame for its underdevelopment on government. Though the local industry offers as much as any other in the Caribbean, he said, over the years, government has shown less than wholehearted inclination to commit to the industry. “The problem I have as President of THAG is that I am not yet convinced that the government’s commitment to moving forward with tourism as a major development direction is much more than rhetoric,” Nascimento told Stabroek Business.
These disclosures, made in an up-front interview, departed sharply from the conventional impression that
