Barbados prepare a master plan for tourism
Bridgetown.- Barbados is to get a Tourism Master Plan, according to a White Paper on tourism development, presented by Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy.The Master Plan will chart the direction of the industry for the next decade, and Barbadian input at all levels is being sought. Sealy said Barbados’ $1.2 billion-dollar tourism industry was too important to continue to be operated in an “ad hoc, loose manner”.
Addressing tourism stakeholders at the LLoyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, Sealy said the White Paper would set out the national tourism policy for Barbados, Government’s vision, and an overall framework for tourism development for the future.According to Sealy, there was “an absence of an appropriate policy framework for the tourism industry”. (Source: Daily Nation)