Dennery Poised For More Tourism Benefits

Contact: Rose Marie Harris

Wednesday, January 31, 2001 --  Another rural community is poised to benefit under the Government’s Nature Heritage Tourism Programme which already has given a significant boost to economic activity in rural St. Lucia.

Heritage Tourism Programme officials are holding a one-day consultation in February with residents of Dennery to discuss how this scenic east coast community can be roped into the highly successful programme which has worked wonders for Anse-la-Raye through the introduction of the Friday night fish fry.

According to Director of the Heritage Tourism Programme, Felix Finisterre, issues on the meeting’s agenda include a discussion on the potential of handicraft items and how to attract more cruise ship visitors to the Dennery Basin.

“The East Coast has not sold very well in terms of what we are doing through Heritage Tours,” he noted. “So what we have been trying to do is to use it as a place for cultural performances, so that there will be another kind of tourism where people from other communities and eventually visitors are going to come.”

Finisterre announced that the Heritage Tourism Programme is teaming up with the Poverty Reduction Fund to finance the construction of six vending booths along the Fond D’or site in Dennery.

“There is a proposal to build a fire station on the top of that hill and that is going to displace the vendors, so that’s another opportunity for us to look at the possibility of creating some kind of visitor facility where you can do some roadside vending during the course of the week,” he said.

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