Saturday, August 24, 2013

Deputy Tourism Director is new head of SLTB’s Marketing Unit

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hope she remembers a very fundamental maxim of marketing, which is this. It has to BOTH create value, and to extract value. I noticed that the PM is getting some traction on tracking some of the key industry metrics right. He disappointed though. He could only recite what other countries were doing in terms of the of benchmark of the return on investment. He seemed somewhat clueless on how to use that benchmark or how to get Saint Lucia to equal or excel those benchmarks from the different countries. After all, that is exactly what, in a competitive space or environment, benchmarks are used for ... strategically.

August 25, 2013 at 9:47 AM
Anonymous said...

And do you think he made the right choice in appointing that sluggard as Minister of Tourism?
A man with no drive and foresight, lacking in the necessary substance required to deal with todays competitive business in yourism.
(better days ahead?)

August 25, 2013 at 3:10 PM
Anonymous said...

Honestly, Saint Lucians are not go-getters as such. We are a very laid-back kind of people and have a very laid-back kind of culture.

During the last wage settlement negotiation critically absent was any discussion on the matter of productivity.

This can be very alarming to those would ever consider this locale as good place for foreign direct investment.

So we go blissfully unaware not ever trying to anticipate the twists and turns that potentially lie beyond the horizon. Thus, we are therefore never ever prepared for the unexpected.

We do not have, or take a long-term view, or nationally even have a world view for that matter.

We are encouraged by way of a lot of idle talk on our talk-shows to take so much for granted, and paint a naïve rosy picture regarding leaders in government and businesses, without any concern about being proactive.

Besides, all of this is very much reflective of our innate cultural naivety of always hoping that others, or someone will be there to always take good care of us. Accordingly, there is very little personal responsibility for taking charge and control of ourselves, and helping ourselves on in life, honestly and in very positive ways. The external development environment outside of our homes, therefore remains pervasively poor, and not rich with great opportunities for either unusual spontaneous business or personal growth.

August 26, 2013 at 8:43 AM
Anonymous said...

To be honest, they are a lazy bunch. They drink too much alcohol, try to live too high on credit, big maco houses, expensive cars, party too much instead of spending valuable time with their children, too many girlfriends to care for, too many single mothers with multiple kids, party, party, party.
(waiting for the better days? keep waiting.)

August 26, 2013 at 3:40 PM
Anonymous said...

All I know is that the ministry of tourism has a whole bunch of lazy, kiss a.. people working there. There are people here in Florida, Georgia, New York, etc working as consultants and doing shi...These people have countless perks - car, house, fly here and there and people are suffering in SL. How the hell could that be right? If the tourism numbers were there to support it....

August 29, 2013 at 4:58 PM
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August 29, 2013 at 5:00 PM
Anonymous said...

Some comments would not be made if we were mature enough to separate job performance as one issue, and individual moral behaviour as another but separate issue. The second issue has to do with the constituency and societal level of tolerance for unacceptable behaviour. This too would be reflected in voter behaviour regarding whether or not people would vote for people with flawed characters.

But we have had a very sad and historical pattern of overlooking certain personality flaws in our politicians to the point of even promoting such characters as worthy of national adoration to the point of sainthood. Take for instance, the revered drug baron, the US ex-con, and Saint Lucia's demi-god, John Compton.

August 30, 2013 at 8:17 AM
Anonymous said...

It is not necessary to maintain all these offices for tourism in those countries, [jobs for de boys] all that's required is good weekly advertisement in News-Papers in key cities in Europe and North America.
It is time this so called Minister for Tourism get up from his lazy rear end and do some work for a change.

August 30, 2013 at 1:35 PM
Anonymous said...

Really? Get up and do what? With so many getting money hand over fist for doing practically nothing but shoot hot air? Where are the god damn examples of hard workers in this society?

August 31, 2013 at 10:01 AM

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