Roraima Airways Inc will launch its eighth annual Wedding Expo this morning at its Duke Lodge, Kingston hospitality facility.
The company’s Chief Executive Officer Gerry Gouveia told Stabroek Business that the event will continue to focus on “providing small businesses in sectors related to weddings with opportunities to market their goods and services. All of the feedback that we have had over the years tells us that the Wedding Expo event has been fairly successful as a marketplace for small vendors. We at Roraima are sufficiently encouraged to persist with the event.”
However, the Roraima Airways boss told Stabroek Business that he was “particularly disappointed” over the fact that Wedding Expo was entering its eighth year without any official action having been taken to update what former tourism minister Irfaan Ali had described some years ago as “antiquated wedding laws” that act as a disincentive to couples wishing to visit Guyana and tie nuptials at very short notice.
Gouveia said that his company will persist in lobbying the political administration to effect changes in existing legislation “that will expand the frontiers of wedding tourism in Guyana.”
