Opposition MPs yesterday criticised Government’s “amateurish” handling of the Park Hyatt affair as Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert prepares to meet developer Carl Bazarian.Mr Furbert last week stated the contract for a new hotel on the old Club Med site had been terminated, only to later correct himself and say he merely meant Mr Bazarian’s lease had expired, with fresh talks imminent.Yesterday, Shadow Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell urged Bermudians to take whatever promises come out of this week’s meetings between Mr Furbert and Mr Bazarian with a pinch of salt, and repeated the One Bermuda Alliance’s call for a tourism authority to replace politicians at the head of the industry.And United Bermuda Party MP Charlie Swan, a frequent critic of Government’s dealings with Mr Bazarian, said the Park Hyatt contract should be terminated, allowing others the chance to compete for the right to build a new hotel in St George’s.Mr Swan noted the Bazarian group had promised financing was in place in 2008 and that some aspects of construction would be completed by 2012.Mr Crockwell said in a statement: “The Tourism Minister’s blunder over the status of the Park Hyatt development project has to be seen as symbolic of the chaotic and unsatisfactory style of governance of this Government.“The new St George’s hotel is a promise made by this Government that they have once again failed to keep. Once again the people of Bermuda have been kept in the dark about progress or the lack of it in this scheme.“Frankly, had this Government carried out proper due diligence in the first place, it would have known that Mr Bazarian was not in a strong position to take on such a project as the Park Hyatt resort development.“We know now, as a result of the numerous breaches of the terms of the agreement between the Government and Mr Bazarian.“This is another example of the people of Bermuda being given smoke and mirrors instead of much-needed results.“And yet, despite Mr Bazarian’s limitations, which any prudent and thorough Government would have known about, this Government blew up the former Club Med facility in 2008, in a fantastically dramatic fashion, and tore down the golf club buildings.“Again, we know now that was just theatrics, designed to give the people of Bermuda false hope that this new hotel project was imminent.”Mr Crockwell said the people of St George’s in particular have been misled by successive Ministers, including Mr Furbert.“St George’s and Bermuda need jobs and a revived tourism industry, not broken promises,” he said.“Now, we caution Bermudians to take whatever promise that comes out of the meetings between Minister Furbert and Mr Bazarian this week with a grain of salt. Remember, an election is looming.“In a general sense, despite the energy exhibited by Minister Furbert towards our tourism industry since he took charge of it in November 2011, the reality is that none of his singing and gimmickry takes Bermuda a single step towards a turnaround of our failing industry.“We need someone at the helm of tourism who understands what our tourism product needs. We need someone who has successfully negotiated hotel development leases before. We don’t need someone who doesn’t know when or if an agreement has been terminated or not.”He said Bermuda needs a tourism authority with a professional chief executive officer.“We need someone at the helm of tourism who understands what our tourism product needs,” said Mr Crockwell.“We need someone who has successfully negotiated hotel development leases before. We don’t need someone who doesn’t know when or if an agreement has been terminated or not.“The history of Bermuda tourism under this Government has been one empty promise after another. Bermuda cannot afford five more years of careless management of this vital industry, which has the potential to grow hundreds if not thousands of Bermudians jobs. The people need results, not songs.”Mr Swan said: “This Government has been horribly lacking in its handling of the entire affair.“Minister Furbert — who was not the architect of the agreement — is now having to engage in backtracking, doublespeak and subterfuge.”Mr Swan said the agreement, which involved a number of Government Ministries, gives away more than ten percent of Bermuda’s land mass for 260 years.“To say that the handling of this agreement is amateurish would be an understatement,” he said.He said the agreement stated rents totaling $600,000 should have been paid to the Accountant General over the past four years and questioned: “Have they been?“Yes, economic times are hard, however it is at times like this that people invest. It is at times like this that entrepreneurial creativity shines.“This land can, and should, be employed for the benefit of Bermuda and Bermudians.“After four years, Mr Bazarian can not honour the agreement. It should be terminated, redrafted, and re-tendered, to allow others — including Mr. Bazarian — an opportunity.“The people of Bermuda deserve to have the best control over, and benefit of, the assets we cherish. We should not be held hostage by one corporate agenda that exists outside our shores. We elect a Government to protect Bermudian interests first.”The Ministry of Tourism did not respond to a request for comment last night.