Chief Secretary, Farley Augustine is leading a Tobago contingent to London for the World Travel Market, described as the most influential travel and tourism event globally. WTM takes place from Monday November 06th to 8th. More in this Elizabeth Williams report.
00:00 For us in Tobago, we just completed our pre-planning session, our final pre-planning session.
00:07 We met with all the players who will be here.
00:10 This is our booth here in Tobago.
00:13 I mean, we did a fantastic job this year.
00:15 I think this is the largest booth Tobago has ever done.
00:19 And Tobago is here alone, but we are joined by a couple of partners from Trinidad.
00:24 Caribbean Airlines had co-experiences and Banwari Man.
00:28 The world travel market is also being attended by Councillor Tashio Boris,
00:33 Secretary of Tourism, Culture, Antiquities and Transportation,
00:38 Tobago Tourism Agency Limited personnel, as well as other Tobago tourism stakeholders.
00:45 Several hotels are here, which shows confidence in our sector bouncing back the way it should bounce back.
00:51 And Secretary Boris, Secretary of Tourism, Culture, Antiquities and Transportation,
00:57 she joins me. In fact, she's leading and I am supporting her in this effort this year, as I did last year.
01:05 So we met earlier. We planned all the strategy.
01:09 We went over and over again.
01:12 And as you can see all around, there is a lot of noise, a lot of activity, construction going on.
01:18 So proud that Tobago has been able to complete its work.
01:22 And we are in the Caribbean space, which is part of the larger Americas.
01:27 Our beautiful friends Barbados is right across from us.
01:32 And we see they they yellow and blue looking beautiful.
01:36 And of course, you must have Rihanna on the poster there.
01:39 Mr. Augustine said it is important for Tobago to make its presence felt, especially in the international market.
01:48 You will see during this week while we are here that we actually get to launch a new project.
01:55 Well, it's sequel of a project with National Geography magazine, which we did last year.
02:00 We have one of us coming on board again like we did last year.
02:04 And of course, I meet tomorrow morning with people like British Airways and so we can lock them in for another season.
02:13 Augustine announced that a new series is to be launched.
02:18 By the time we roll over into 2024, what we want to have happen is that we return to three COVID numbers of international visitors and surpass those numbers.
02:35 And we are already seeing an upward trend already this year's number of arrivals surpassing last year number of arrival.
02:44 Meantime, the office of the chief secretary says Deputy Chief Secretary Dr.
02:49 Faye Beasrel is performing the duties of chief secretary during Mr.
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