Published on : Thursday, July 19, 2018
Chastanet, an erstwhile tourism minister was talking about the opening of the sixth annual St Lucia showcase-North America, here on Wednesday.
“The amazing number is, if you take a poll and you ask people to close their eyes and think of where they would want to go on vacation, ninety per cent of the people say the Caribbean. But only one-and-a-half per cent of them ever end up in the Caribbean.”
“So the question becomes, how do we bridge that gap in terms of what people want and what we are actually delivering?” said Chastanet.
On Thursday, the event will come to an end is being attended by tour operators and destination marketing companies who work together with companies and attractions here, with an aim to better market the island.
As per the prime minister, St Lucia has determined to start to perk up its delivery at the airport.
Then he proclaimed that he received word late Tuesday that a loan for a new airport for St Lucia has been accepted.
“So it means that we are going to be commencing construction of the new airport this fall and the new airport is going to be able to have the capacity of one-and-a-half million passengers.”
He stated that new systems will be in operation at the new facility.
“We are not bringing old habits to the airport,” the prime minister said.
“So facial recognition technology, is [were] you don’t have to fill out your immigration cards.”
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