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‘Otter lady’ Diane McTurk wins tourism ‘Pioneer Award’

December 16, 2010January 14, 2011 TIMES INT'L

By: Reuben Stoby The loud applause went on for well over a minute when the woman known as the ‘Otter Lady’ was called up to receive the Tourism Pioneer Award. That woman was Diane McTurk and the occasion was the Tourism, Industry and Commerce Ministry and the Guyana Tourism Authority’s fourth Guyana Tourism Awards Ceremony, held at the Guyana International Conference Centre on Friday December 10. Tourism Minister Manniram Prashad hailed McTurk as one of the persons who helped to shape tourism in Guyana. “We are really the new kids…

Guyana’s Wildlife

December 8, 2010 TIMES INT'L

Guyana’s vast jungle interior and its coastal flats are home to a diversity of animals, insects and birds. Travel to the interior, or look outside you window in the city, or along the coast, and you may just see any number of these.

Guyana has achieved its goal in promoting eco-tourism – GTA head

December 6, 2010December 9, 2010 TIMES INT'L

With the help of government and the private sector, Guyana has achieved its goal of promoting its pristine eco-tourism sites, Director of the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA), Indranauth Haralsingh, has said. In an interview with this newspaper, Haralsingh said that Guyana is now popularly known as “Guyana – The Amazon Adventure” throughout many countries in the world. This is because of the many strides that have been taken to develop the sector. The GTA head explained that the tourism industry’s major achievement is the recorded increase in arrivals this year.…

British tourists thrilled by Guyana’s tourism product

November 25, 2010 TIMES INT'L

Well-known travelcompanyJourney LatinAmerica, while celebratingits 30th anniversary,conducted two specialconsecutive trips toDestination Guyana.In 1997, JourneyLatin America beganpartnering withWilderness Explorers ofGuyana to promote toursto South America and theCaribbean. A total of 34British tourists came onthe two memorable tripstaking them through thethree Guianas. The firstgroup came at the end ofSeptember, and the seconddeparted GuyanaFriday morning forneighbouring Suriname.Speaking to the mediaon Thursday evening,some of the visitorsshared their impressionsof ‘Guyana – the AmazonAdventure’, with its tremendouseco, nature andadventure tourism potential,and boasting an irresistible combination of breathtaking natural beauty, diverse cultures, and friendly and warm people.Chris Parrot…

Experts optimistic about growth of Caribbean tourism sector

November 19, 2010 TIMES INT'L

Three experts on tourism trends in the United Kingdom and Europehave painted an optimis-tic picture of the British market for the Caribbean tourism sector in 2011, despite challenges such as the Air PassengerDuty (APD), which was increased again this month. A panel of media and industry practitio-ners concluded that the worst is over for the glob-al economy, and that the Caribbean region can look forward to an im-proved performance next year. “The global recovery has begun,” John Taker, the purchasing director for Virgin Holidays, told dozens of Caribbean tour-ism ministers,…

Tourism Ministry hosts birdwatching tour for UG students

November 19, 2010 TIMES INT'L

Last Saturday, the Tourism Ministryand the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) hosted a birding famil-iarisation (FAM) tour at the Botanical Gardens, Georgetown, for students studying Tourism at the University of Guyana (UG).The event was one of a number of activi-ties planned for Tourism Awareness Month 2010, being celebrated under the theme: “Community Based Tourism: Preserving the Unique tourists alike; and is be-ing touted as a haven for birders, with more than 864 bird species from 79 families. Georgetown alone has some 280 bird species which belong to 43 families. Other bird-ing…

Large companies returning to GuyExpo – Prashad

September 14, 2010September 15, 2010 TIMES INT'L

GuyExpo preparations are far advanced and booth space is already sold out, even as organisers expand the exhibit area to cater for the heavy traffic of expected patrons. Even more notable this year is the interest being shown by several large companies that had dropped out of GuyExpo in recent years. The organisers believe that this renewed interest is because of the growth experienced by small exhibitors, who have soared with the aid of GuyExpo and are now competing with the traditional businesses. Commerce Minister Manniram Prashad has identified GuyAmerica, NDS,…