Time for tourism to ‘get a move on’ – Thorne

Visitors relaxing at the Rock View Lodge

You get a sense from listening to Wilderness Explorers General Man-ager Tony Thorne that trying to run a viable business in Guyana’s tourism industry can be like rowing against a gale force storm.

Last week, the tourism industry executive used the opportunity of a media briefing to publicize a visit here by a team of tourist industry representatives from Europe and Scandinavia, draw attention to some of the fault lines in the industry and to point to the collective public/private sector responsibility to repair those fault lines.

The remedial task, he believes, must begin with government placing the marketing of the country’s tourism product on the