{"id":4038,"date":"2010-02-11T11:36:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2010-02-11T12:00:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T18:00:55","slug":"douglas-highlights-tourism-industry-constraints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/tourism-publicity\/douglas-highlights-tourism-industry-constraints\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas highlights tourism industry constraints"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1276\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ian-Douglas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1276\" title=\"Ian Douglas\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ian-Douglas-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ian-Douglas-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ian-Douglas-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Ian-Douglas.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister of Tourism Hon. Ian Douglas <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tourism Minister Ian Douglas has highlighted several constraints facing tourism development in Dominica.<\/p>\n<p>He told a tourism stakeholders meeting here this week that if these constraints are not minimized, it could mean trouble for the already struggling sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are faced with a scarcity of financial resources to reengage and dynamize our accommodation sector for the building of new tourism enterprises that will give us a greater competitive edge in sites and attraction. We are constrained by the limited amount of seats into the destination which makes the price of our product more expensive and less competitive. We are constrained by the high cost of energy and the other\u00a0 inputs for the operation of the sectors business activities and we are also constrained by the lack of resource to mount greater levels of cooperative Dominica brand alive,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Douglas, Dominica\u2019s tourism industry faces the dichotomy of developing a growing and expanding cruise sector and attempting to maintain the integrity of a land-based tourism product.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Douglas announced that stakeholders in the industry are on the heels of developing a Cruise Tourism Committee to plan a new strategy to optimize returns on investments in the sector.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tourism Minister Ian Douglas has highlighted several constraints facing tourism development in Dominica. He told a tourism stakeholders meeting here this week that if these constraints are not minimized, it could mean trouble for the already struggling sector. \u201cWe are&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism-publicity"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Douglas highlights tourism industry constraints - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/tourism-publicity\/douglas-highlights-tourism-industry-constraints\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Douglas highlights tourism industry constraints - Dominica News Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tourism Minister Ian Douglas has highlighted several constraints facing tourism development in Dominica. 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