Looking for the right Mr Tourism
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right Mr Tourism
THE Tahiti Tourist Promotion Board, known locally by the French acronym of OPATTI, will be restructured to become more of a private than public structure, with control by the Territory because it will be using the Territory’s money, accord ing to Tahiti’s president, Gaston Flosse, He said the key to this restructuring was finding a Mr Tourism to be a general manager worthy of his title. “I’m looking for a real tourism professional who is going to think about the restructuring of OPPATTI,” Flosse said.
He said he thought he had found the right candidate in Tahiti, but was waiting for a response from the person’s employer. If this does not work out, “we well look elsewhere,” he said, adding that he would be prepared to hire a foreigner.
The first job of the Mr Tourism would be to reduce political involvement at the Tourist Board’s Papeete The restructured OPATTI would handle overseas promotion and represen tation, and no longer be concerned with having hostesses to deal with the public and handling maintenance of tourist sites. “A visitor’s bureau can take care of that,” Flosse said. □