With financial constraints having long retarded the development of a robust tourism industry, the advent of Guyana’s oil and gas sector has coincided with the official ‘talking up’ of tourism not just as a significant money-earner but, as well, as a vehicle through which to finally ‘show off’ Guyana to the rest of the world.
For much of 2024 the country’s Minister of Tourism, Oneidge-Walrond has been making various interventions seemingly seeking to send signals to Guyanese at home, those in the diaspora and potential overseas visitors that the country is in the process of promoting a multi-faceted tourism sector that places emphasis on the long-delayed global ‘showing off’ of the array of attractions that comprise the country’s overall tourism profile.