{"id":21000,"date":"2024-07-02T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21000"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:04:35","slug":"guyana-gears-up-to-showcase-tourism-potential-ahead-of-major-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-gears-up-to-showcase-tourism-potential-ahead-of-major-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Gears Up to Showcase Tourism Potential Ahead of Major Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>by Josiah Williams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Guyana prepares to host the Caribbean Investment Forum and the Cricket Carnival, local tourism and hospitality operators are being urged to effectively highlight the country&#8217;s cultural richness and service industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a recent engagement, Minister of Tourism, Industry, and Commerce, Oneidge Walrond, emphasized the importance of showcasing Destination Guyana as tourist arrivals continue to rise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She pledged government support for the hospitality sector, including training initiatives for new tour operators and collaborative efforts to improve regional signage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Walrond also committed to regular engagements with tourism operators to address concerns and provide policy updates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussions included proposals for developing the Georgetown Cricket Club&#8217;s Cricket Museum into a significant tourism attraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Josiah Williams As Guyana prepares to host the Caribbean Investment Forum and the Cricket Carnival, local tourism and hospitality operators are being urged to effectively highlight the country&#8217;s cultural&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21002,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000\/revisions\/21002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}