Ordinary Essequibo residents are becoming increasingly aware of the potential of the wider region to establish itself as one of the country’s most appealing tourist destinations and some of them are already in the process of seeking to transform that potential into an entrepreneurial opportunity.
When the Stabroek Business visited the region a few weeks ago, we sensed an increasingly audible clamour for more robust state intervention to help position the region to fulfill its potential as one of the standout places to visit across all of Guyana. Both longer-term business persons and would-be entrepreneurs have told the Stabroek Business that the creation of the supporting infrastructure to render what is already a pleasing pre-existing visitor environment could see a dramatic transformation in the developmental fortunes of the region as a whole as visitors head for the lure of the region’s outdoors like moths to a candle flame. The process of bringing Essequibo further into the limelight as a tourism haven, both ordinary resident and long-standing business persons have told the Stabroek Business, has to begin by creating the infrastructure to support the already pre-existing natural environment.
