PPP/C parliamentarian Yvonne Pearson says funds should be made available for indigenous communities to develop their tourism products even as she raised questions about the success of government’s flagship employment programme for hinterland youths.
“When we talk about Destination Guyana, and when we talk about tourism and visitors coming to Guyana, no visitors are coming to see Georgetown, they are coming to go out there in our hinterland and rural areas; they are coming to see us, the first peoples of this country; that is what they are coming to see and they are coming to see where we live and what we have to offer,” Pearson said during her contribution to the 2019 Budget debate last Monday.
She said that more funding should be given for the development of tourism in indigenous communities since she believes that the tourism sector is heavily dependent on this aspect of Guyanese culture and landscape.
