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Feb 22, 2016 Letters
Dear Editor,
So pleased to learn that “Guyana is open for business”. But, apart from the attractions listed, let us try, first of all, to make sure that our hotel and guest-house general facilities are those which investors and commercial travellers expect to be available after perhaps much preparation and a long journey.
In my travels, over many years, to ‘foreign parts’, choosing holidays always from a travel agents’ brochure, booked through them, always covering flight and pick-up from airport to accommodation, in a holiday group, I have found that travellers expect, on arrival at their accommodation, either a drink of some sort available – on the house – or in their room.
In American hotels, in general, there are beverage-making facilities, with packets of tea, coffee, whitener, and sugar on hand.
On one of my American holidays, an elderly chap, on alighting from the pick-up coach, said he hoped he could get a cup of coffee soon.
When I mentioned the hotel’s facilities, he was so pleased. In establishments elsewhere, drinks were always available on request.
In Mauritius, every room had a minibar, well-stocked with local (non-alcoholic) drinks. A drink somehow seems to settle the system, and is often a good ‘getting-to-know-you’ move. One can relax (and chat) with a drink in hand.
If breakfast is included in the deal, then at least a continental-style one is expected. In Europe and the Middle East, I found that some hotels stuck to the minimum – a sweet bun or slice of cake, a crusty roll, butter, jam/marmalade and coffee/tea. Tourists were usually happy with this. Fried stuff was always available as an extra, on request.
So, open for business, Guyana may wish to consider the basics that ‘sophisticated’ investors expect. These make for good relations and pave the way for ‘doing business’. A ‘welcome drink’ of any sort is very important.
It goes without saying that safe and reliable transport from airport to accommodation is a must. One hopes Guyana’s enterprise may thrive.
Geralda Dennison
Please share this to every Guyanese including your house cats.
Apr 19, 2024
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