Portsmouth leads the way in yachting sector

DOMINICA:  The town of Portsmouth has made its name in the yachting industry. This is according to Member of Parliament for the Portsmouth constituency, Hon. Ian Douglas.
In an interview with GIS news last Wednesday, Hon Douglas was overjoyed that Portsmouth, through the yachting industry, has played its part in Dominica’s tourism sector.
“Our yachting program in Portsmouth is an envy of the region,” he noted.  “Not only of the rest of Dominica, but a lot of places are looking at what we are doing in the Portsmouth harbor with the yachting sector. If you have visited Portsmouth recently you would have seen the tremendous advances we have made in yachting.”
Last year over eight thousand yachties visited Portsmouth, and a total of 2,003 yachts docked at the purple turtle beach.
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Tourism partnered with the Portsmouth Association of Yachting Services or PAYS and Offshore Passage Opportunities to launch the first Yachtie Appreciation Week 2016.