Tourism is like the weather.
Everyone complains about it, but no one wants to do anything about it.
Well, now is your chance.
Tourism Director Pilar Bush along with consultant Chris Evans are making the rounds to all of the districts this week to get input on the National Tourism Management Policy. Tourism Minister Charles Clifford will join the group when he gets over his bout with the flu.
A policy was adopted five years ago, but it is at its end.
While there were some good objectives in the policy, not all were achieved for various reasons.
So now the policy needs to be tweaked.
And the tourism industry needs you to help them make the necessary adjustments.
A viable tourism management policy is vital to the Cayman Islands if we are going to continue to be a destination country.
Your input is needed because tourism touches all of our lives, from the cruise visitors downtown to the Jeep brigade that cruises Grand Cayman to the divers that take a week’s holiday on the Brac.
Objectives of the policy are to provide a high quality product for the visitor, give them a distinct Caymanian experience, develop a sustainable approach to tourism development, protect and enhance marine resources, attract a better calibre of visitor who has more discretionary income, develop a highly skilled Caymanian tourism workforce, develop nature tourism on the Sister Islands, organise tourism within Cayman more effectively and do a better job of monitoring and researching tourism.
As you can see there is something in the objectives that has the potential to touch each and every one of us.
The tourism gurus who are hosting the meetings make their presentations quickly to get on to the business of listening to what district residents have to offer.
It’s refreshing to know that we all have a chance to speak directly to the people who set tourism policy and let them know what we need and don’t desire in each of our districts.
The meetings continue tonight in George Town, from 7-9pm at Mary Miller Hall and continue Thursday in West Bay, from 7-9pm at John A. Cumber Primary School.
Brackers get a chance to put in their 2-cents worth from 10am until 1pm Saturday at the Seamen/Veterans Hall.
So far the discussion at the meetings that have been held has been informal, but frank.
We encourage you to attend. If you don’t you have no right to complain when the policy is re-jigged and there’s something in it you don’t like
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