Forging Greater Tourism Linkages in the OECS |
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Rose Marie Harris
Tuesday, May 29, 2001
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Governments of the eastern countries have established the OECS
Council of Ministers of Tourism.
According to Saint Lucia’s Tourism Minister Honourable Menissa Rambally ,
this initiative is aimed at pursuing greater collaboration in dealing with
common tourism issues, and will be
discussed further, when the Ministers meet in July.
Minister Rambally believes that St. Lucia is in a very good position to assist
other OECS islands in strengthening their own product while Saint Lucia
continues to increase its competitiveness.
“Saint Lucia, during the
last two years, has gained a
reputation and certainly we have won awards for the diversity of our products
and where we’ve taken it in the last few years.
There is certainly room to continue to make it even better.
The Ministry is now focussing on some initiatives of minimum standards,
which we have undertaken, with some of the sectors. We will continue to do so this year,” the minister stated. |
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