NDP Manifesto 2025 - Flipbook - Page 10
Our Plan for Rapid Tourism
Development
Our country’s diverse natural
landscapes and seascapes offer
stunning attractions to visitors. Our
people are welcoming and eager to
offer services to tourists.
However, the ULP’s limited initiative and lack
of creativity have prevented this vital economic
sector from realising its enormous potential for
business growth, job creation and as a foreign
exchange earner.
While we welcome foreign investors, we will work
to ensure that local businesses and workers are
directly involved and derive maximum benefit
from the industry. We will work hard to maximise
the spending of each tourist and to ensure the
benefits are enjoyed across the country.
We will:
Create a sustainable tourism strategy to
ensure that tourism is developed in harmony
with our natural environment.
Invest in heritage tourism to attract high
spending niche travellers who seek authentic
cultural experiences, and prioritise highvalue tourism that encourages longer stays
and greater spending, through targeted
investment incentives and focussed
marketing.
Improve tourist sites such as Fort Charlotte,
Fort Hamilton and Argyle Petroglyph Park,
among others, to offer unique experiences to
visitors.
Engage industry professionals to develop
new tourism products and focus our
international marketing strategy.
Work with vendors, taxi drivers, artists,
guides and other stakeholders to develop
tours, new local products and services that
will maximise earnings from visitors.
Develop special offers for Caricom,
Garifuna and diaspora tourists and market
them extensively.
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Create a national eco-tourism and
wellness tourism strategy to diversify our
tourism products and appeal to a wider
range of potential visitors.
Support local businesses by linking them
directly with major tourist attractions helping
increase visibility and promote tourist
spending across our country.
Improve skills in the hospitality and
tourism sector, further improving wages, by
establishing training programmes through
the planned National TVET Centre of
Excellence.
Boost adventure tourism by leveraging the
rugged beauty of our forests, rivers, many
islands and surrounding seascape.
Improve security around resorts and
beaches through coast guard patrols and
police foot patrols to improve peace of mind
among our visitors.
Create new tourist hubs by encouraging
nightlife and more recreational facilities
in places such as Kingstown, East St. George
and in the north of the country.
Promote sports tourism by attracting more
high profile and varied sporting events,
including those that make use of our waters.
Accelerate hotel development through
implementation of a citizenship by
investment programme.
Establish a specialised tourism linkages
unit as an intermediary to manage logistics
and quality assurance while aggregating
small local suppliers into reliable, highvolume partners for major tourism
enterprises.
Implement a “Work from Paradise”
programme to encourage visitors, especially
young professionals, to choose SVG as a
place to stay for long periods and work
remotely.
