Minister for Tourism and Culture, Senator Robert Tonge has told participants at a three-day “Enhancing Tour Packages for Voluntourism” workshop that working in partnership is “very important” in order to get work done.
He was the featured speaker at the certificate ceremony for the workshop held at the Prevost Cinemall on Wednesday.
According to him Post- Hurricane Maria was a clear indication that by working together, thinking smart, “we can do a lot.”
“I am hoping that not only that you will try to do your own thing, but partnerships are also very important,” Tonge said. “Working together is also critical, you cannot do it all by yourself.”
Tonge continued, “Once you put your mind together and everybody is working together it’s amazing what we can all achieve as a team.”
According to him, volunteer tourism provides tremendous opportunity to give back in many ways.
“There are some persons who have contracting skills, that is an avenue for volunteer tourism,” he explained. “They can come down for a week, work on a small building, what you want is that you have completed the project, they can complete a project in one week and go back up. There are many opportunities and I am sure through the three days that you have been here you’ve been able to even see further opportunities as it relates to tourism.”
He said also that social media is extremely powerful in terms of promoting business.
“By the use of social media it allows you to reach out to a lot more people at a significantly lower cost,”’ he noted. “Through the use of social media and also through the regular advertising.”
Meantime, he encouraged persons to focus on the positive rather than the negatives.
“Sometimes people like to focus on the negative, but you also have to think of the positive,” he remarked.
Twenty-five received certificates at the end of the workshop.
Is Robert Tonge aware that there is a graveyard of small hotels in the Castle Comfort area? Anchorage Hotel, Sisserou Hotel, Evergreen Hotel, Castle Comfort Louge and a manufacturing facility, Bello.
Robert Tonge came from the private sector, in fact he was the president of DAIC at the time he was recruited to serve in government and it is sad that he has not made one single representation on the behalf of the private sector. What a shame. The few hotels on island are in ruins and the director of DHTA is all smiles.
What’s going on in Dominica? Can one little cruise ship sustain the tourism sector?
For Dominica to do well in tourism, there must be a sizeable number of stay over visitorss. That’s where the bulk of the tourist dollars comes from. Getting to Dominica by air is problematic. Tourists are disinclined to travel to any destination if getting there is not hassle free. The cruise industry is performing far below par. The country has so much potential as a tourist destination with many breathtaking, green, lush vegetation, rare birds and other animals, spectacular natural features, and inviting rivers. The country can certainly soar to unprecedented economic heights. The only problem is that this current maladministration has the country on a leash, holding it back from so many possibilities.
Tongue, I feel your tongue getting a bit loose now with your nonsense talk on behalf of your failed PM Leader and corrupt Labour government. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You people don’t work in partnership with us Dominicans and you there preaching your nonsense partnership to us. Man go clean all you backyard first of foul behaviour, Bin Bobol, Fertiliser Bobol, abuse of states funds through the Red Clinic with couriers delivering cash to so called preferred labourites in the poverty you got them in. These people have no energy to partner with your rotten Labour corrupt government.
According to your failed PM, “Go to Hell, Go to Hell…Go to Hell, none of all you damn business” .
Get out of this states business. You all have failed us with your political lies, deception, bobol, bin and Fertilizer and Red Clinic. Political thievery at its best. You guys appear rich, is that so? And our people live in poverty. Skerrit and his bunch of failed political clowns Must Go, Now.
Not Tonge again paying lip service. Shut up!