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TOURISM in the nation’s capital is growing,
according to Governor Powes Parkop when launching the PNG Experience
Tourism Expo 2007 on Tuesday.
Mr Parkop said currently, tourism activity in the city compared to past
years, continued to grow and if carefully enhanced, could accompany the
progress of modern life like it has accomplished in other parts of the
world.
“Its international dimension and the involvement of many sectors such as
travel, accommodation and related tourism services have also grown over
the years,” he said.
Mr Parkop added the need, therefore, to efficiently and adequately
supervise this evolution and provide tourism with the inter-governmental
machinery equipped to deal with the movement of people, tourism policies
and tourism impacts that had become more demanding than ever.
“I am happy to announce that the City Hall is committed to working
closely with the private sectors in tourism as there can be no other way
if we are serious about achieving our goals within the given time
frame,” he said, adding he wants to see a working dialogue establish
immediately between the management of City Hall and the tourism industry
and other private sectors involved in tourism in the city.
He said this was one common goal and that is to jointly put together
plans on “how best we can advance the development of tourism in the
city”.
PNG Tourism Industry Association president and chairman of the expo’s
organising committee Michael Buleau had earlier this week mentioned that
the inflow of tourism in Port Moresby and other parts of the country had
been increasing over the last three years due to good marketing and
promotion done by the PNG Tourism Promotion Authority abroad.
Meanwhile, Mr Parkop said the way forward was to give priority to areas
like that needed attention including the development of appropriate
tourism infrastructures in this city which have been ignored by
successive governments.
Within his five-year term, he plans to redevelop the following areas in
the city to make Port Moresby the best and attractive city for our
visitors.
They are Sea Park at Ela Beach, Tabari Mall at Boroko, Ela Beach Water
Front, Sir Hubert Murray Stadium, Four-lane Ring Road around Paga Point
from Ela Beach to town and other tourism related projects.
 
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