February 2011

Tourism Needs to Listen to the People

One thing about travel and tourism marketing is that there is absolutely nowhere to hide.   Anyone and everyone can judge success or failure at a glance.  From a Caribbean tourism point of view, the Guardian carried this headline a couple weeks ago – “Caribbean touts tourism surge not seen since ’08”.  The article went on

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Tourism Will Rise

Many tourism stakeholders here in Trinidad and Tobago have a pessimistic outlook.  Is it that stakeholders have good reason to be frustrated?  Firstly, last September the business section of another newspaper clearly demonstrated that starting from 1995, visitor arrivals to Trinidad and Tobago showed an upward trend, peaked in 2005 and since then, have been in decline.  With

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