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Cancellation from Pegasus to Marriott due to discounts received – GMSA

Apr 20, 2015 News

…hopes its choice does not “tarnish the good relationship” it enjoys with Pegasus Hotel

The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) said yesterday that its decision to switch from the Pegasus Hotel to the “spacious” Marriott Hotel for a business luncheon was based on the value of the discounts and rebates it received from the latter.
The entity expressed hope that its decision “does not tarnish the good relationship” it enjoys with the Guyana Pegasus, since it intends to continue to utilize the hotel on conditions that are mutually beneficial.
GMSA’s comments come in wake of accusations by Pegasus Owner, Robert Badal that the entity may be heavily politicized as it cancelled a booking of the Pegasus’ Savannah Suite made during late last month for the same event without notifying management. Badal alleged that the decision to move the event to the recently commissioned Marriott Hotel was based on President Donald Ramotar’s instructions, who is expected to speak at the upcoming business meeting.
The Manufacturing Association said that its activities and programmes are driven firstly by the needs of its member companies, and secondly, to optimize financial returns in order to keep the association viable.
As such, it emphasized that its April 22 event was moved to the almost tax-funded hotel, after considering its estimated ticket sales, the value of sponsorship from the business community, the size of the Marriott’s conference room and the availability of the Marriott’s room for the entire duration of the business luncheon.
The GMSA said that it is a practical Business Support Organisation and one of its key objectives is to maintain political neutrality.
It reminded that it was the first to introduce in 2011, the concept of political discourses between presidential candidates and the business community. Hence, in April and May of that year, it hosted three successful business luncheons with AFC’s Khemraj Ramjattan, Opposition leader, David Granger and President Donald Ramotar.
The series of political parlays is being repeated this year so that the business community can engage the candidates of the main political parties on their blueprint for business development.
Additionally, GMSA sought to make clear that for many years the Pegasus Hotel has always been its first preference for conferences, training programmes, business luncheons and other activities.
“However, this is not the first time that the GMSA’s Board of Directors took a decision to hold an activity away from that venue.  There were occasions when the Pegasus was unavailable on our chosen dates, or the seating accommodation was insufficient for the size of the audience or participants.”
“We have made use of a number of alternative venues in and outside of the city (incl. Regency Suites and the Princess Hotel).  It would be useful to point out that two of our last three major events were held at the Princess Hotel due to the unavailability of the Savannah Suite at the Pegasus,” the Manufacturing and Services Association added.

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