Hi the sight is better, but again if your intent is to entice...

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Hi the sight is better, but again if your intent is to entice tourists than your sight will not achieve its ultimate goal. Try this...go to any tourist web sight for any country in the world and see if any of them have anything but pictures that show the very best of their country.

Take Jamaica for example: Kingstone is horrible.

It has a high crime rate. It's dirty and there are broken down buildings all over the place.

Poverty is rampant in the country-side and living conditions are horrible in many areas.

Do you ever see any of those things in their adds for tourism.

All they show is what they know people want to see. So if we go on the precept that you desire a tourist web sight, than we must conclude that you only want to show what's best of the country on that sight, Therefore, it doesn't matter what anyone is telling you, the fact is that your web sight is still flawed because it does not show only what's best of the country, hence, the logical conclusion is that it does not advance your goal which is to attract tourists.

Now, I don't know you and I don't know if you have an honest agenda or not, but I'll tell you certain things that I see on your sight that are not tourist getters.

Your first page has a child in it who looks like he has not eaten for days and is really angry about it. Have you ever seen a tourist sight with frowning hungry looking children?

Your P-au-P page has some nice pictures, but again there are pictures there that would never be on another country's tourist sight.

On that page your "busy corner in the capital" picture is basically about a closed up dirty building and a street full of trash, and dirty broken down cars. How is that inviting for tourist.

On that same page, you have a picture that could have been beautiful but isn't. I refer to the one called "Haitian women operate food stand." Unless you can crop that picture and get the dirty mattresses and the many other nasty stuff behind them out, that picture is really bad. There are so many possible beautiful pictures like that one that you could take with any amater camera, why would you settle for this one. There are several pictures of broken down closed-up buildings throughout the site. Why would a tourist sight have a whole bunch of pictures of broken down-buildings.

I found the same types of problems on all your other pages.

You cannot have it both ways, you can either have a tourist sight for Haiti or you can have a beautiful warm sight for people to really learn about Haiti.

The last description is what you now have. There's nothing wrong with a beautiful sight that informs people about Haiti, but don't confuse that with a tourist sight.

The fact that you insist on keeping the negative pictures is what makes me question your ultimate goal. If your goal is as you said (tourism) then think about making some changes.

If your goal is not tourism than your sight is probably fine, but I would not know. Either way I must now say over and out.

Linda, October 15 2007, 9:00 PM

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