Regarding tourism, Georgetown is brand-new on the map, a rarely used gateway to the country’s richly biodiverse rainforest. Yet by the end of 2026, roughly a dozen Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott hotels will have opened, solidifying the city’s meteoric makeover from a sprawling village to a bona fide boomtown. Since 2020 the World Bank has listed Guyana, bordering Venezuela and Brazil, as having the world’s fastest-growing economy.