…in preparation for Guyana’s hosting of Tourism Ministers’ conference

MINISTER of Business with responsibility for Tourism Dominic Gaskin is currently in Washington, DC chairing a preparatory meeting for Guyana’s hosting of the XXIV Inter-American Congress of Ministers and High-Level Authorities of Tourism (CITUR).

The preparatory meeting takes place over two days from February 7-8 and will be attended by Heads of Permanent Missions to the Organisation of American States (OAS). Its purpose is for reporting on preparations for the XXIV Congress, confirming the Draft Agenda and discussing the Draft Declaration and Plan of Action of Georgetown on the theme of ‘Connecting the Americas through Sustainable Tourism’.

The minister is accompanied by Director General of Tourism Mr. Donald Sinclair who is the focal point for the Congress. The Congress which takes place on March 21-22, 2018 at the Marriott Hotel Georgetown, would be the first OAS Ministerial Congress being hosted in Guyana.

The Ministerial Congress is a high-level forum that provides opportunity for policy and decision-makers in the tourism industry to interface with experts and practitioners from a diversity of sectors including business, academia, technology, rural and community development etc.

Challenges are discussed and strategies and solutions proposed. A key output is the ‘Strategy to Enhance Tourism Cooperation and Competitiveness in the Americas’ subscribed to by all the Member States.