THE Caribbean European Integration (CEI) Travel and Tourism Services, headed by former Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) staffer and University of Guyana tourism student, Ms. Richlyn N. Angus, is resolutely bent on taking Guyana’s tourism product to the next level.

Located in the bauxite-mining town of Linden, in Region 10, this entity, though relatively new to Guyana, has been ready to offer travel agency and tourism services with a difference since its inception on June 01, 2013.
This publication recently learnt from Ms Angus that among the services offered by the entity are selling of domestic and international air tickets, cruises, visa services, passport services and tour operations; besides events planning, management, and sessions in the area of training and human resources development. The curriculum includes resort management, tourism consultancy, and all other segments associated with Guyana’s tourism product.
As president and founder of this organisation, Ms Angus plans to work in collaboration with the Region 10 Tourism Development Association (of which she is also a founding member) to boost tourism and travel in the town, and to create new job opportunities for international and domestic tourism.
She noted that there is a terrible deficiency in Linden’s tourism sector and in the town’s overall economic growth, but she assured that through her line of work, she is aspiring to change that one step at a time. She also intends to tackle the issue of the alarmingly high rate of unemployment in Linden.
She added that CEI Travel and Tourism Services is ready to stand tall and face major global changes.
This business was first registered in Barbados, under the CARICOM Single Market and Economy programme (CSME) on May 13, 2012, and was operated as a home-based company at Grosvenor Road, Carrington Village, St Michael, Barbados.
The name Caribbean European Integration was used in an effort to show gratitude to CARICOM and the European Union for a job well done. Ms Richlyn Angus has benefited in the past from a LOME IV Spanish for Tourism Scholarship programme to The Dominican Republic in the year 1999, together with the CARICOM Single Market and Economy programme in Barbados in 2004, and the Linden Economic Advancement Programme in Linden, Guyana, in 2005.
CEI will therefore reflect the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement (usually referred to as the Cotonou Agreement), which was signed in Cotonou, Benin on June 13, 2000 and was established as a comprehensive framework for future ACP-EU relations. The agreement was signed by 71 ACP states, including the 15 CARIFORUM countries and 15 member states of the European Union.
Caribbean European Integration Travel and Tourism Services will also reflect the core objectives of that agreement, which are as follows: economic development, reduction and eradication of poverty, and smooth and gradual integration of ACP states into the world economy.
All new market access opportunities in tourism and travel-related services in the CARIFORUM-EC Economic Partnership Agreement were carefully considered while brainstorming this business name, Ms. Angus said.
Caribbean European Integration Travel and Tourism Services will ultimately expand and operate throughout the Caribbean and Europe, in an effort to offer to those participants of the Linden Economic Advancement Programme’s tourism training a chance to tap into the world economy in various identified areas.