By MATTHEW VARI
Sunday, January 17, 2016 (Sunday Chronicle, PNG)
OUTGOING Tourism Promotion Authority (TPA) CEO, Peter Vincent, has said that positivity is the key for the tourism promotion sector to move on from incidents that can threaten the numbers of tourist visiting the country.
His comments came when asked by the Sunday Chronicle on how TPA as an organisation responds to incidents, such as Monday’s tourist incident along the Kokoda Track in the Central Province, in terms of carrying out its role in promoting the country as a tourist destination.
“Really depends on the nature of the incident. The incident that occured is very serious, the way we would look at it is that rather than dwelling on what has happened we’ll look at positive media reports on how we can respond positively to the incident and how we can be able to recover very fast,” Mr Vincent said.
“What has happened in Kokoda is a classic example, and the response of police has been swift and we have to work with stakeholders to ensure that responses to those incidents are faster.”
“If we can bring those people who are involved to justice. At least we are seen to be doing something. If we don’t do anything and we let it dies away we will continue to have some problems.”
Mr Vincent has had a long career within the airline and tourism industry and has had 16 years as the head of the country’s tourism promotion authority.
When asked regarding the future of the organisation going forward- he added his optimism and excitement in what the organisation is set to achieve with its new minister Justin Tkatchenko.
“We have a new minister and I am excited about him. He is a man with passion and he want to get things done and we look forward to working with him.”
“There is still a lot of things that need to be done, things we’ve shelved that we want to be able to move on. With the new minister on board I’m sure we will see a lot of new exciting things.”
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