As Monday was my last day of data gathering, it ended up being a busy day of activity. While Hiro and Debbie continued interviews at CI and with Marriott, I spent morning at the Suriname Tourism Foundation reviewing the piles of policies and training that have been created for tourism but not fully used. The reason appears primarily to be issues with implementation that from difficulty in adapting the material and training practices to the local environment. It was a sobering reminder to the team that the implementation needs to be both clear and localized to the region. To help, the group from Trinidad that was pitching a similar project (more implementation-focused) will be good to work with in order to better inform both project teams and build something that the country can actually use.
The afternoon was spent combining the data gathered along with the interview notes into a SWOT analysis that was a starting point to combine all the issues uncovered through the interviews. I also went to the US Embassy and talked with Ambassador John Nay about his experience in the country from a political perspective.
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| A typical taxi (unmarked) |
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| A higher-end hotel (the Royal Torarica) |
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| STS - Suriname Tourism Foundation |
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| Tourism studies and policies |
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| More tourism studies and policies |
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| Training materials from an EU project in 2004 |
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| More training materials |
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| CDs used for training different tourism functions |
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| The MIST system - all the data from tourism arrival cards |
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| The STS building |
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| The CI building |
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