{"id":38252,"date":"2016-08-03T01:56:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T05:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/?p=38252"},"modified":"2020-09-14T08:57:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T13:57:01","slug":"scuba-operators-association-president-holds-great-future-for-tourism-in-vanuatu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/blog\/scuba-operators-association-president-holds-great-future-for-tourism-in-vanuatu\/","title":{"rendered":"Scuba Operators Association President holds great future for tourism in Vanuatu"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Len Garae | Source Daily Post<\/pre>\nThe President of Vanuatu Scuba Operators Association (VSOA), Mike Crawford, says Vanuatu has the potential to be the best tourist related country in the whole South Pacific.
\nCrawford gave his view while discussing the future of scuba operations in the country as a contributor to tourism development in Vanuatu.
\nHe has confirmed information from the Department of Tourism that the department and its stakeholders including VSOA have been working on new standards for the whole tourism sector for the last three years. This hopefully will be gazetted this year by the government to become legal so that everyone must adhere to specific standards. Much of which for VSOA they have been going on for the last 25 years.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve all become a little bit better,” he said. “We can always learn from it if anything ever gets wrong and that\u2019s what we\u2019ve done. Everyone has to be a member of an association and they have to adhere to these standards which we are now bringing into place.\u201d<\/p>\n