I refer to Ms Marion Zammit’s reply (TMID, 17 February) to my letter regarding Dwejra

(TMID, 14 February).

According to this letter, it has taken three years to think about and plan this project. I hate to think how long it will take to actually implement any measures. Perhaps the Gozo Ministry could give us a time frame?

In 2005, 686,000 day-trippers came over to Gozo from Malta. Using this number as an average, this means that in the three years since this project first came into being in 2003, approximately two million people were bumped and shaken down the Dwejra road and disgorged from their vehicles onto the dusty, litter-strewn parking lot to view one of the

most beautiful sights in Gozo.

Even if only 20 per cent of these tourists were perhaps contemplating coming back to visit Gozo for a few days or weeks in the future, we would be talking about 400,000 potential guests.

After experiencing a full day of bad roads, bad service, dreadful toilets, polluted countryside, etc., how many of these tourists do you think would return to our island? A day trip to Gozo could be an ideal opportunity to give tourists a taste of Gozo, which after all is very different from Malta.

This is just one small example of an opportunity of promoting tourism which has been lost.

Don’t complain about lack of tourists – do something about it.

Lesley Gail Kreupl

Gharb