Grenada is seeking to the African continent as a brand new supply marketplace for the tourism trade.

Lennox Andrews, Minister of Tourism, advised Loop Information that there’s an rising center class on the continent that they are going to be concentrating on. He mentioned Grenada has additionally had an extended relationship with some nations that they intend to construct on.

“As Grenadians, we took half within the liberation of South Africa, we supported Mandela and the ANC and we all the time welcomed ANC supporters in Grenada. There are various Grenadians who went to Africa to review and it’s mentioned that Grenada is the one nation within the Caribbean the place a aircraft can take off in Africa and land direct,” Andrews mentioned.

He mentioned they’ll discuss to whichever airline they may negotiate with for direct flights to Grenada and revealed that CARICOM is seeking to strengthen ties with Africa and plenty of Caribbean nations have signed an settlement with Afribank to extend commerce and different relations.

Along with Africa, Grenada may even be seeking to new markets within the Center East and India. Andrews revealed that they are going to be opening two workplaces in Mumbai and Delhi.

Andrews was chatting with Loop Information through the Grenada Tourism Authority’s promotional go to to Trinidad on Thursday night time. T&T is without doubt one of the largest supply markets within the Caribbean for the Spice Isle.

Requested what areas of the trade they are going to be specializing in in Grenada, Andrews mentioned group tourism.

Andrews mentioned the goal is to get all Grenadians to worth tourism and perceive its significance to the economic system and the nation and have a way of what’s taking place within the trade.

He mentioned they’ll try this by making a tourism product round what every group is understood for.

The group of Munich, for instance, he mentioned, is understood for cassava.

“So this yr we need to have a competition, a cassava competition. All the things cassava can be on sale, cassava bread, cake, porridge… they’ve began to plant extra cassava to make sure now we have ample for the competition. We can have one week of actions and we may even embrace different features of the tourism trade comparable to musicians and artisans who make earrings and many others can have their merchandise on sale and we’ll set up journeys for the vacationers,’ he defined.

An analogous competition can be organised for Carriacou which is understood for corn.

“We’ll hyperlink it to the vacationers, do organized journeys, take vacationers from inns and cruise ships and carry these to particular websites,” mentioned Andrews of the group occasions.

Andrews additionally recognized the yachting trade as a key space that can be focused as a part of the nation’s financial thrust as it can create loads of jobs on the island.