Tobago tourism a dead horse

THE EDITOR: Tourism in Tobago is more a dead horse being beaten than a Phoenix which will ever rise again.

Not only are there questions over the vanished Rainforest Zipline, but also the Scarborough History Walks which were meant to appeal to the less athletic and more intellectual visitor.

The Scarborough History Walks share the same imaginary, vanished but not forgotten, space as the Rainforest Zipline. The Tobago Jazz Festival is locally by many as more of a slush fund rather than a contribution to tourism.

Accounting to the public for the expenditure on the Jazz Festival was unknown for many years until the opposition political party in the Assembly recently protested.

Then there are questions over payments to a certain company for some service in 2017, with said payments mysteriously being sent to a wrong e-mail address. The $8 million immediately vanished and to date no one has been found guilty of wrongdoing.

Some people apparently believe to this day that anything goes and that anything can pass as tourism. But look what’s dead in the water. Sadly.

A. BLADE

Tobago