continuing bid to improve tourism.

Premier Jennifer Smith and a host of Ministers and Government staff joined hotel managers in Cambridge, Massachusetts for a two-day "brain-storming'' session. The team worked in small discussion groups.

In a release from Cambridge last night the group specified five initiatives they are committed to implementing: aligning marketing plans of Government and industry; developing a rapid decision making process between Government, the unions and the private sector; educating the community to job opportunities and career prospects in the tourism industry; developing "the National Summit of Tourism and Prosperity''.

In attendance were Tourism Minister David Allen, Finance Minister Eugene Cox, Labour and Home Affairs Minister Paula Cox, Tourism Board chairman Delaey Robinson, Senator Calvin Smith, BIU president Derrick Burgess, the Ministry of Finance's permanent secretary, Peter Hardy, Director of Tourism Gary Phillips, and the Ministry of Labour's permanent secretary, John Drinkwater.

The meeting, the second held this year, was organised and paid for by consultants Monitor.