Latest update April 28th, 2026 12:30 AM
Tourism in Guyana has great potential
Dear Editor,
It was great to learn that a National Tourism Council has been formed, with the intention of bringing together all aspects of tourism in Guyana.
This may not only inspire the Guyanese diaspora from visiting and touring more often, but the eco-tourism aspect should attract foreigners, particularly Brits, in droves. The rainforests and wildlife alone should keep them happy and busy with their electronic gadgets, taking pictures to share with their contacts back in the UK. But first of all, the Council would need to make travelling from here to there and back a bit easier. It is no fun waiting in transit for hours at an airport for a connecting flight. A direct flight (as in the 1960s/70s charter days) would be great.
About the Bahamas and the ‘flaunted’ 800,000 visitors per year; how many of these are day-trippers off the numerous cruise ships that stop there regularly, I wonder? I have made two such trips off American cruise ships on day stops around different Caribbean islands. The Bahamas, a clean and beautiful island with a strong American influence, and, as I recently learnt, a tax haven.
A lot of serious, hard work and effort must be done to make it happen, but Guyanese are capable of this. While spending roughly four years in Guyana as an optimisti re-migrant, I made two or three trips to the hinterland, including an all-inclusive one with my son, on holiday from the U.K. We both had a very enjoyable day. Lovely scenery, lovely people, good food, and interesting souvenir shops.
On one trip we went ‘white water rafting’, I think it was called. Brits love such things. (I still recall them in the early 1980s, on the US Everglades, feeding the alligators swimming close by with bits of raw chicken, supplied by the guide, who had to remind them after a while to be careful with their hands, because they were in danger of having “a heavy jaw closing over your hand and snapping it off”).
And let us not forget small ‘souvenir bottles’ of our much-loved rum. The Brits I gave some rum to, after my visit last year, are still raving about it and enquiring whether I know of UK stockists! We are all hoping this enterprise may thrive.
Geralda Dennison
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