{"id":6615,"date":"2017-08-24T06:33:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T06:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=6615"},"modified":"2017-08-24T12:08:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T12:08:45","slug":"more-calls-for-tourism-minister-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/more-calls-for-tourism-minister-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"More calls for Tourism Minister to go"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are more calls for Tourism Minister Asot Michael to go over what many see as his failure to boost the country\u2019s tourism numbers.<\/span><\/p>

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The Democratic National Alliance (DNA) has joined in criticizing Michael’s performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

The DNA has expressed the view that the Government and the Minister of Tourism have done nothing to diversify the tourism product. Michael, the party said, has failed badly.<\/span><\/p>

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Communications Officer Malaka Parker told Antigua News Room (ANR)<\/strong> the figures for June are especially concerning. <\/span><\/p>

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Parker said the minister appears to have fallen asleep on the job.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe were on record at least a month ago calling for the resignation of the tourism minister; and even if we look at the way the entire Sandals saga was handled, we think that the minister is asleep on the job. <\/span><\/p>

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“And certainly his track record thus far cannot be deemed acceptable by the people of this country,\u201d Parker said. <\/span><\/p>\n

Parker, who has worked in the cruise sector, said Heritage Quay – a duty free shopping plaza – is looking like a ghost town.<\/span><\/p>

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She added that many merchants, traders, taxi men and others in the tourism sector have opined that \u201cthey are not feeling any movement in that sector at all.\u201d <\/span><\/p>

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