TWENTY residents of Kaieteur Top and neighbouring areas are now equipped with the knowledge and skills to work as tour guides for visitors to the waterfall and the surrounding park.
Those trained are also from Chenapau and Karisparu and the training, which lasted one week, was done at the recently commissioned Visitors’ Arrival Centre by resource persons from the Guyana Trade and Investment Services (GTIS), National Parks Commission (NPC) and Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA).
The graduates were given certificates at the successful completion of their course and an official disclosed that the aim is to create a pool of such guides from within the area, to make the visitor experience to Kaieteur much more interesting and informative.
The guides will be part-time employees who would receive a stipend for work when called to serve.
Their training follows the recent commissioning of the $54M centre built with assistance from the German Government and the establishment of telephone facilities at Kaieteur Top last September.
It is all part of the plan to make Kaieteur Top a central hub, offering tourism facilities linked to the Tukeit Guest House and the one at Chenapau, which together would provide a comprehensive range of facilities to encourage visitors to the Kaieteur Park as well as the surroundings. (Clifford Stanley)