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ACHIEVEMENTS: WE • We collaborated with the THA on
infrastructural upgrades in order to get Blue Flag
DELIVERED ON OUR Certification for two beaches on the island, hence

PROMISES! improving our tourism product and promoting
Tobago as an environmentally clean and safe
tourism destination
Building on our rich legacy, the Peoples National
Movement remains committed to Tobago's
development.

Over the past five years, we have delivered on our
promise to work towards the growth and
development of the island and its people. In
pursuit of these goals, we have supported and
introduced a number of social and economic
initiatives on the island. These include:

BRANDING AND MARKETING TOBAGO

• We established the Tobago Tourism Agency to • We collaborated with the THA to facilitate more
spearhead the revitalisation of the tourism flights directly to Tobago from Canada through
sector in Tobago Sunwing operators, resulting in a year-on-year
increase in international arrivals to Tobago
• We rebranded Destination Tobago as: "Tobago
Beyond Ordinary", which won the island a silver
award for "Best National Tourism Board
Campaign" at the World Travel Market's
International Travel and Tourism Awards in 2019

• We upgraded and repaired the Magdalena
Grand and Golf Resort and negotiated with a US-
based travel and hospitality conglomerate to
manage and operate the 198-room resort to help
boost the island's tourism

• We expanded the Tourism Accommodation
• We facilitated the collaboration between the Upgrade Project which provides reimbursable
Bureau of Standards and Trinidad and Tobago grants for the improvement of tourist facilities,
Tourism Industry Certification (TTTIC) thereby giving additional financial support to
programme, which will improve the service Tobago's guesthouses and hotels
standards and professionalism in the tourism
sector on the island • We provided financial assistance to the Tobago
Hotel Industry through a $50M grant to facilitate

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