Thursday, July 25, 2013

P.M. Calls for Best Value in Tourism

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

The prime minister was full of prime reciting one hell of a lot of what he did not take time to fully internalize and assimilate. He really needs to take Business 101 again.

July 25, 2013 at 5:00 PM
Anonymous said...

That's the same industry he is sucking the hell out of...for Taxes to [ay his bills...

July 25, 2013 at 6:44 PM
Anonymous said...

The PM must be commended for making a good-faith effort at trying to get a grip on the issues and terminology related to St. Lucia's #1 industry. Two reports appearing in the print media, one in Barbados and the other locally do show a serious attempt not to misquote the PM.

The halting report overseas shows that for a country with many more years of experience with tourism, the end result suggested that the task was indeed very daunting.

The local reporter did a better job. He quoted verbatim for the most part, leaving the reader with the job of translation or interpretation. That was indeed, any way you look at it, a move that was extremely smart.

July 26, 2013 at 9:52 AM
Anonymous said...

What is the private sector's role in the development process? Has the private sector become a parasite instead of a symbiotic partner? Clearly, there is too much dependency on government!

July 26, 2013 at 11:54 AM
Anonymous said...

I believe that the crafters of this very important speech paid scant attention to the very important secondary audience. I am not at all convinced that the primary audience, meaning, those in attendance when the speech was originally delivered got a clear message as to what the Prime Minister was really talking about.

As indicative of the comment made on July 26, 2013 at 11:54 AM above, the lines of demarcation and cooperation appeared to be very much blurred. The public sector and the private sector, each has a fundamental role to play. The speechwriter did not seem to care about which one was which.

The most disturbing matter which seems to have been buried in this murky presentation is the rather simplistic approach taken regarding the underlying the very knotty issues involving the business concepts of value, value creation, value collection, ownership (structure), and tourism market segmentation.

July 26, 2013 at 12:46 PM
Anonymous said...

The PM does not understand tourism.

July 28, 2013 at 4:48 PM
Anonymous said...

Why the useless recitation of numbers telling what other countries are achieving without any sense of some concrete plan of your own to do better than even simply to meet those? Amateurs cite numbers to impress. People with insight use numbers to inform strategic decisions.

July 29, 2013 at 2:30 PM

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