The Trinidad and To­ba­go In­com­ing Tour Op­er­a­tors As­so­ci­a­tion (TTI­TOA) has raised con­cern over what it de­scribes as an un­bal­anced por­tray­al of the coun­try in a re­cent ar­ti­cle pub­lished by The Tele­graph in the Unit­ed King­dom.

The ar­ti­cle ti­tled “From tourism to ter­ror: The Caribbean is­land torn apart by gangs and guns”, paints Trinidad and To­ba­go as a na­tion over­whelmed by vi­o­lence—a de­pic­tion TTI­TOA be­lieves fails to re­flect the lived ex­pe­ri­ence of thou­sands of vis­i­tors each year.

TTI­TOA Pres­i­dent Lor­raine Pouchet said the ar­ti­cle “does a dis­ser­vice to the depth, com­plex­i­ty, and vi­bran­cy of our twin-is­land na­tion.”