Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes: Volume 10 Issue 5

Editorial

Richard Teare, Donald Sinclair, Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena

How to shape a vision for 2025 based on key lessons learnt from past tourism of Guyana

Donald Sinclair, Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena

This paper provides the backdrop to the other seven articles in this WHATT 2018 theme issue dedicated to Guyana. This paper looks back and ahead at the development of tourism in…

How can tourism policy influence the path to sustainable tourism development in Guyana by 2025?

Aletha Connelly, Shenera Sam

This paper aims to outline the key realities which need to be under consideration as Guyana crafts a vision for sustainable tourism development – 2025. These key realities are…

How can policy assist the development of community-based tourism in Guyana by 2025 and beyond?

Aletha Connelly, Shenera Sam

The purpose of this paper is to outline the policy directives in Guyana as it relates to community-based tourism and to argue that the development of this niche can only be driven…

How can the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Guyana impact the tourism industry by 2025?

Aletha Connelly

The purpose of this conceptual paper is to discuss the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Guyana with particular emphasis on the role of cultural support and its possible impact on the…

What are the strategies proposed for boosting travel to Guyana from diasporic areas?

Donald Sinclair, Aletha Connelly

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the strategies and lines of action that should be implemented if 2025 is to be a landmark year for diasporic travel to Guyana.

What justification is there for including the mass suicide of Jonestown as part of a Guyana dark tourism narrative in 2025?

Donald Sinclair

The Jonestown massacre of 1978 was the largest such event in modern history; it assumes the status of a prototype in many discussions of cult dynamics and mass suicide. This paper…

What are the key advances in human resource development that tourism in Guyana needs by 2025?

Camille Allison Ishmael-Robertson

In this viewpoint paper, the key advances needed for human resource development in the tourism industry of Guyana are outlined. The purpose of this paper is to present the…

What are the key innovative strategies needed for future tourism in Guyana?

Donald Sinclair, Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena

This paper aims to provide answers to the strategic question: “What innovative strategies are needed to develop tourism in Guyana for 2025?”. It captures the essence of scholarly…

Reflections on the theme issue outcomes: What innovative strategies are needed to develop tourism in Guyana for 2025?

Donald Sinclair, Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena, Richard Teare

Profiles the WHATT theme issue ‘ What innovative strategies are needed to develop tourism in Guyana for 2025?’ with reference to the experiences of the theme theme editors and…