(CNS): Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart has taken aim at tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan over the final tally of visitors in 2023 and what he said was a tourism-recovery-for-2024/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>lack of ambition for the 2024 target. McTaggart said that most of this destination’s regional competitors had already reached their pre-pandemic arrival numbers, while at the end of 2023, Cayman had reached 85% of its record-breaking half a million stayover guests who came in 2019, and urgent action was needed to boost the sector.
In a video message, McTaggart accused the government of “inaction and complacency” over the struggling tourism industry. Even though the government collected a record-breaking sum in accommodation tax and many believe the local infrastructure is not keeping up with growth, the Progressives want a return to the huge numbers of both cruise passengers and stayover guests arriving before the pandemic closed the borders.
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