The Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA) is excited and welcoming of the announcement that Grenada has been added to the UK green list.
Inclusion on this list speaks to the overall effort of the Government of Grenada and its outstanding management of Covid-19 protocols throughout Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
The UK market has always been an important cornerstone of Grenada’s tourism industry and this update signals to the market that Grenada is a destination open for travel. This decision positively impacts all areas of the economy and benefits not only the hotel and tour industries but will give a much-needed boost to the taxi and transportation sector, local vendors, artisans, and restaurants. The far-reaching impacts of this tourism revitalisation will also aid in the sustainability of the agriculture, real estate and entertainment industries.
The tourism authority had already made preparatory steps for a full tourism reopening by embarking on a series of conversations with tourism stakeholders of all sectors to allow for open dialogue and clear messaging on the way forward. GTA has also supported and facilitated workshops and training sessions specifically targeting service excellence. These initiatives were all part of an overall strategy to put Grenada on the path to readiness and with this timely announcement all the tools and training obtained can be utilised for the nation’s benefit.
Chairman of the board of Grenada Tourism Authority Barry Collymore expressed his gratitude to the partner agencies in the UK stating, “The lobbying led through the efforts of GTA’s UK representatives, the PC Agency ensured that Grenada’s stellar management of the Covid-19 pandemic was kept top of mind through consistent messaging on numerous international platforms such as BBC TV, Sky News and Good Morning Britain ITV assuring the public and all relevant parties that Grenada deserved placement on this list.”
Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation Honourable Clarice Modeste-Curwen is also delighted about the update stating, “Team Grenada has worked strategically and consistently throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and we have managed to keep Grenada safe for a very long time. The hard work of the Ministry of Health and by extension, the entire Government, has certainly paid off. We will now utilise our marketing tools as we work to make best use of this opportunity. I certainly look forward to a revival of the tourism industry.”
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RCV and Sweet have it bang on.
Being fully vaccinated doesn’t save one from the UK (or the USA) having to pay for 4 COVID tests (per person) at ridiculous cost, more than a low cost airfare. Until that is changed I’d be surprised if many from the UK travel to beautiful Grenada. It’s all about ripping people off. Make the tests free. We’re all the same people.
As for the vaccinations, the fear isn’t someone from the UK going back with COVID from Grenada but someone in Grenada getting it because there are nowhere near enough Grenadians vaccinated to protect the population. Worst case scenario would be a year before things could get back to normal. Get the shot!!
You only need one person on a plane who supposedly tested negative before flying and isn’t fully vaccinated carrying it in. Those that are fully vaccinated should be OK but until Grenada’s population has that level of protection it’s scary.
Franki, sorry to correct you but, being injected with mRNA drugs, does not prevent you from being infected with SarsCov2 and spreading it to others.
I know its confusing to many …. but efficiency to symptoms CV19 is not the same as immunity from SarsCov2.
Its all part of the deliberate propaganda which divides the Disease SarsCov2 from the Symptoms Covid19.
So even if everyone in Grenada were injected 100% with mRNA drugs, it would not prevent SarsCov2 infection, which is now a seasonal Endemic Corona Virus just like Influenza.
God given Natural Immunity is 99.97% superior to any man made drugs, so please dont discriminate against others who WILL have a better Natural Holistic Immunity than those who injected Experimental manmade drugs.
Seems Grenada is NOT using science to make decisions – the problem is the skeptical local population’s vaccine acceptance – and the paranoia that follows will continue till Grenada vaccinates ALL its population….. vaccine hesitancy will lead to the destruction of the tourism industry – while other countries accept the vaccinated – look at the US – we are OPEN – because of vaccines – Grenada should allow vaccinated US travelers to enjoy the beauty of Grenada
Florida, Texas and South Dakota all were open…long before the Experimental Vaccine became a National Political gimmick. The deaths from rhose States are lower than the States that Lockdown and Jabbed. How do you explain this.
Also you mentioned Science,…well the actual science of the Experimental Spike Protein drugs, only reduces the symptoms of CV19. It does absolutely nothing to kill the SarsCov2 virus itself. For that you need HCQ and Ivermectin.
please get vaccinated – all else is good for discussion while you walk grand anse beach
Grenada has sent and continues to send signals of covid confusion – with no rational policy that addresses fully vaccinated travelers. A forced, paid for by the traveler covid test seems a way to extract money any way they can. Its time to refresh the travel requirements – and to make vaccinated travelers free to travel to the country. the PROBLEM seems to be the low vaccinated local population. Once they can encourage the local Grenadians to get vaccinated – perhaps then travel will come back – Grenada continues to lose foreign exchange to other nations who have rational policies.
No the PROBLEM is not Healthy people refusing to inject a dangerous Experimental drug but the misguided belief that only an Experimental Vaccine is the solution.
Natural Immunity boosters and HCQ, Ivermectin, Quercitin, Athromyicin, etc kills SarsCov2.
But then the Tyrannical Psychopaths cant grab power and money.
Vaccines will liberate you NOT the medications listed. ? experimental vaccine – millions have gotten the vaccines – regions with high vaccine penetration have low cases and low deaths? Maybe the ‘experiment ‘ is not an experiment – its real lives and real deaths. Heed science and not the interpretation of science , the interpreter should understand science to comment
RVC, I am heeding the science and not the propaganda.
The mRNA Spike protein drug is Experimental never been used in humans before. And has only been given Emergency use Authorisation because psychopaths lied that there are no other remedies or options.
Would not board an Experimental Aircraft that in six months of operations, have injured over a million people and related to approximately 20,000 officially recorded deaths.
Well I guess you would because you are an advocate for the mRNA drugs.
I wish I am wrong about this Experimental drug and the evil money and power grabbing agenda behind the scam of Covid19…but sadly I am not.
Its hard to ignore the objective science and the evidence of a psychopathic Globalist elite who have been made rich and powerful from the engineered bio-weapon with SarsCov1, Bat, Pangolin, Chicken, Humanised Mice and Genetic Cleavage Resiptors and then released on an unsuspecting world.
Non of us ever want to believe that there could exist such evil people walking and talking amongst us. Yet they are here on Earth right now.
No one is going to travel to Grenada when the cost of PCR tests are more than the flight itself. 4 PCR tests in total for one trip. It does not make sense.
I have three friends who are fully vaxed and want to come for a holiday but they won’t as long as they are required to quarantine. Do we know when this may change? Will cruise ship passengers be allowed to wander around town or will they be required to take a tour bus? I am not sure where I can find answers to these questions.
I am very confused. How can the GTA be “excited” by the UK’s decision to “green light” us when the UK itself is still facing major challenges to fully re-opening because they have the (more highly) contagious and, by implication, more lethal Delta variant spreading all over the UK? Are we so desperate to now be taking even greater risks by welcoming visitors from that country now? Unbelievable!!
As usual Now Grenada contine to censor my and others comments and kill open honest debate. So much for Free Speech and Free Press.
Anyway, Anansi, its all about money and power, hence the current push to inject with experimental mRNA drugs, ….money money money.
BTW, the Delta mutation is not more lethal but instead less lethal when a Virus mutate.
Your fear is only justified if you believe the Government propaganda and trustingly, injected.
The danger arises from the experimental mRNA with a elevated risk of an Auto Immune Reaction to any future wild Corona Virus.
So the very act of injecting to allow more Tourist could well end up back firing yet again.
All well and good going on the green list but how can we get there when ba and Virgin have pulled there flights
Well finally, we hear from those being paid good money to manage Tourism in Grenada. Once again we see a lot of bigging up each other for…. a wonderful job, sprinkled with the usual fancy words about Stakeholders and Sustainability. Joke.
Doing a great job? If politicians were doing a wonderful job in the first place, there would be no need for ass-kissing and payments, or as you called it….diplomacy and lobbying.
How much money is wasted on PR and Marketing, when what you should be focused on primarily…is the poor Tourist Product/Service currently being offered in Grenada
What sane Tourist will pay a lot of money for a Vacation only to go through all the PCR and Quarantine hoops and hurdles that idiotic politicians have put in place in Grenada? Very very few .
And why? Because lots of other countries have sand and seas and are far more stress free and welcoming to Tourists than Grenada.
Yet you GTA people believe because the now departed/resigned in shame UK Tyrant Matt Hancock…. Green-Lighted-Grenada, then suddenly…. Tourists will come flooding back to Grenada. Dream on!
Tyrants like Bojo and Matt Hancock wrecked Britain economically, physically and mentally to supposedly…..Flatten the Curve…instead Hancock much like his immoral boss Bojo, was far more busy trying to flatten the curves of another man’s wife. But such scumbags are typical of the power elites in the UK and elsewhere.
But returning to Grenada and its shambolic Tourism sector, why would anyone risk going on holiday in Grenada, when Politicians can Arbitrarily impose tyrannical edicts that force you at great expense to endure humiliating medical tests and further risk being stranded for month’s, if they decide on a whim, to shut down the Airport for no good reason as they did for five months from March until August 2020 stranding hundreds of people.
So spare me the delusion about the wonderful job you are all doing. People are desperate to simply get away from all the Politician induced Stress not pay big money to further experience yet more stress in Grenada.
Fix these basic issues and there will be no need for Diplomacy, Lobbying and expensive ass-kissing for stakeholders and sustainability.
No doubt the British tourists will be made very welcome.
And so does the rest of us as Grenada need tourists in order to maintain our main Export and we need tourists in order to survive.