{"id":21271,"date":"2024-07-10T19:57:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21271"},"modified":"2024-07-10T19:57:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T19:57:50","slug":"president-addresses-tourism-and-labor-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/president-addresses-tourism-and-labor-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"President Addresses Tourism and Labor Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali has highlighted two critical issues facing Guyana&#8217;s hospitality sector: driving traffic to the country and addressing the labor force needed to support its expansion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the official opening of PF Chang, a global restaurant chain in Guyana, Dr. Ali emphasized the necessity of strategic partnerships and investments to attract tourists and ensure the sustainability of new facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Ali underscored Guyana&#8217;s potential as a major tourism destination, expressing confidence that investments in infrastructure, including 10 new hotels and international franchises by the end of 2025, will bolster this vision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stressed the importance of not only building new facilities but also ensuring sufficient demand to support them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing the labor supply challenge, Dr. Ali acknowledged the temporary nature of current employment practices in the service industry, advocating for long-term strategies to develop a skilled workforce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized the need for ongoing training initiatives while concurrently addressing the labor shortage to effectively support Guyana&#8217;s hospitality growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These efforts are part of a broader strategy to enhance Guyana&#8217;s national development through tourism, positioning the country as an attractive destination on the global stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Josiah Williams, NCN News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali has highlighted two critical issues facing Guyana&#8217;s hospitality sector: driving traffic to the country and addressing the labor force needed to support its expansion. Speaking at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,366,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-local-development","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21271","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=21271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21273,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21271\/revisions\/21273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}