Candace Phillips wears many hats. The product development manager at the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) is an advocate for tourism development, Indigenous peoples and women, and also a mother.
However, Phillips lives and breathes tourism, a field she wishes she had entered earlier on in life. “I love tourism to my core. I study it and try to understand every little thing about it. A few years ago, when I became enthused about tourism I actually said I want to be a minister of tourism. Now, I am sure that all I want is to take a leading role to help communities and to develop partnerships to push tourism development,” she told Stabroek Weekend in an interview.
Of Lokono (Arawak) origin, Phillips, 39, was born at the Kumaka District Hospital, Santa Rosa, Moruca but grew up in Georgetown from infancy.