A half century of tourism development has brought prosperity to the nation, accelerating the country to the rank of ‘developing nations’ with impressive development statistics. In these post-Covid period, undoubtedly it is tourism industry that is dragging our economy into impressive positive growth territory, that is the envy of so many of our neighbours.
Once upon a time, the people of the country saw the tourism industry, as the solution to the many challenges the nation was facing. However, after 50 years of tourism development, the people of the country are slowly beginning to realise that the tourism industry, as it is structured today, have not offered the solutions that many had been hoping for.
These writings explore the general theme, that a fresh and courageous examination of the existing model and its weaknesses, can indeed offer a tourism industry that is more in-tune to the aspirations of the people and beneficial to the economy at large.