With the belief that the Caribbean hospitality industry can do a lot better than it has done for the past few years, Yvor Nassief, who will take up office as Dominica´s tourism minister in four months, has stressed his priorities will be to increase the number of hotel rooms as well as to get more tourists to visit the island.
We want to get more rooms in here. We need to advertise Dominica more. We need to increase the yield, visitor spending, stay-over cruise ship, more stay-over and that is really my job,” says.
What have saved us he indicated- are 9-11 terrorist attacks in the US, the Bali bombing, the bird flu virus and the tsunami in Asia. All these things have allowed the Caribbean to be perceived as a safer place, he said.
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