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Tourism stake­hold­ers are con­cerned about the lack of em­pha­sis on the sec­tor in the elec­tion cam­paigns and man­i­festos pre­sent­ed by the com­pet­ing par­ties for next week’s poll.

In the past week, the ma­jor par­ties vy­ing for lead­er­ship of Trinidad and To­ba­go re­leased their man­i­festos, but the lim­it­ed in­for­ma­tion on tourism or in some cas­es the fail­ure to men­tion the sec­tor at all is be­ing seen as a grim sign.

Re­cent­ly elect­ed pres­i­dent of the To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) Regi­nald Mac Lean not­ed that the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) did have a few notes about tourism. Still, he felt much of the ref­er­ences to the in­dus­try were vague.