HOW INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES ARE TURNING TOURISM INTO LONG-TERM, SUSTAINABLE BUSINESSES
Across Guyana, Indigenous communities are moving into sustainable businesses that generate income and provide jobs. With funding under the Low Carbon Development Strategy, for example, villages are investing in tourism on a greater scale, creating a new source of income.
It’s a story of development driven from within the communities themselves – where tourism is not only bringing visitors closer to Guyana’s Indigenous heritage, but helping villages build sustainable livelihoods for the future. The News Room’s Neil Marks reports from Mainstay/Whyaka in Region Two…
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Lake Mainstay is not an indigenous community. Just saying.
Great for these folks. As a Guyanese resident abroad I applaud these local enterprises.
Watching from New w York City formerly from Guyana nice to see the change maybe someday I'll visit