The Region Six (East Berbice/Corentyne) Regional Tourism Committee, in observance of Tourism Awareness Month (TAM) has launched a photographic competition on Monday.
The competition allows persons to visit four of six tourist attractions in the Region and take a photo of themselves and submit it online.
The locations are Mission Chapel Congregational Church, New Amsterdam Town Arch, Number 63 Beach Welcome Sign, the Indian Arrival Monument at Palmyra, the Guyana/Suriname Ferry Stelling and the Corriverton Sea Wall.
Regional Tourism Coordinator Keisha Hamid says it is very easy for persons to participate.
“Simply snap a photo of yourself at one of the six hotspots in the Region and upload the photo to the regional tourism committee Facebook page with the hashtag #HOTsnaps6.”
Regional Tourism Coordinator, Keisha Hamid
She explained that all entries must be captioned with the hotspot name and time it was taken along with your name posted.
As it relates to the Number 63 Beach, she noted that because of the COVID-19 restrictions, they will not be accepting entries at the beach but rather those which are taken with the welcome sign in the background.
“We don’t want this person is going to the beach using the committee’s name stating that we require the photo and that’s why you have to go to the Beach. Persons are going to have photos previously at the Beach but we won’t know and we don’t want to put persons in that position or we don’t put ourselves in that position where we are blamed for asking persons of the creatures at the beach that is why we are asking for the same,” she explained.
“We recently erected a welcome sign at the main entrance of the Beach.”
The competition was launched on Sunday via Facebook and will run for two weeks. The deadline for submission will be December 11, at 23:59h and judging will be done on December 12, at noon.
“Persons are required to like and share our page upload their photo with all the required information then encourage your friends to like their entries the four photos with the most like from each location will be awarded prices monetary crisis will be giving to the first to third winners of the six locations and other consolation prizes will be awarded to other winners.”
The project is a combined collaborative effort of the Ministry of Tourism Industry and Commerce the Regional Administration and a few private sponsors.
The first prize is $10,000, the second prize is $7000 and the third prize is $5000. There will be several consolation prizes as well.
