Visitors to Guyana for the Super Eight leg of the Cricket World Cup will be afforded opportunities to see two of Guyana’s most important tourist attractions – the Kaieteur Falls and the Iwokrama Rainforest canopy walkway.
Stabroek Business has learnt that local tour operators Roraima Air ways. will be operating special flights to Kaieteur to cater for the anticipated influx of visitors during the period of the Guyana leg of Cricket World Cup. Additionally, Roraima is collaborating with the Iwokrama Rainforest Project to facilitate special trips to both Kaieteur and Iwokrama during the same period.
Managing Director of Roraima Airways Captain Gerry Gouveia told Stabroek Business earlier this week that the Kaieteur and Iwokrama trips were designed to provide CWC visitors with the opportunity to experience “first hand” the beauty of Guyana’s interior and to expose them to the attractions of Guyana as a tourist destination.
“We believe that the Kaieteur and Iwokrama visits can lay the foundation for building Guyana’s reputation as as an important tourist destination,” Gouveia told Stabroek
Business.
During the period of the Super Eight matches at the Providence Stadium Roraima will be operating its two Islander aircraft to facilitate two flights daily to Kaieteur while additional flights will be laid on to facilitate trips to Iwokrama that will also include stops at Kaieteur. Gouveia told Stabroek Business that the company has already received several bookings by e-mail for the interior flights from visitors who are currently in the Caribbean for cricket’s single largest event.
According to Gouveia the period of the Cricket World Cup (CWC) provides “a historic and unprecedented opportunity for marketing the attactions of Guyana to the entire world” and that the special Kaieteur and Iwokrama trips were part of “a wider marketing initiative” being undertaken by the tourism sector to take advantage of that opportunity. “I expect that the rest of the tourism sector will also be taking initiatives to help Guyana promote its tourism product during this important period,” Gouveia said.
Gouveia also said that his Roraima Airways will be “going all out” to support the hosting of visitors for CWC. He explained that the “circle of services” being offered by Roraima includes air travel arrangements to and from destinations, ground handling services at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, transportation to Georgetown, hotel, restaurant and bar services, air flights to the interior and visits to the company’s Arrowpoint Nature Resort. Roraima also operates its own departure lounge at the airport.
