BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS. May 27, 2015 – Barbados’ tourism sector broke a 25-year record during the first quarter of 2015 to reach 171,471 long stay arrivals.BTMI Chairman, Alvin Jemmott, noted that there were record arrivals in each of the first three months of 2015 and extended his congratulations to all industry workers and partners for their steadfast efforts on behalf of the destination.
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WEll Artexeres everyone is entitled to their idiocy ,even you,,
The fact remains that those questions on face valued might appear to the gullible as pertinent ,but to those who have traveled and played on the BU playground, knows the answer is all cooked up with bitter bush and scribble with a poison pen on the walls of BU.
How is it that none of the antagonist never questioned the veracity or truthfulness of the tourism numbers when they were in decline.
Irene, you must admit David BU asked some very important questions in his May 29, 2015 – 4:34AM contribution, re:
“Should we measure the real success of the tourist industry in numbers of arrival?”
“What about return on investment i.e. how much it is costing to bring a tourist to Barbados e.g. subsidies to airlines, marketing etc compared to 25 years ago?”
“What do we know about what the tourist is spending today compared to yesterday?”
“It becomes a superficial argument to peer only at the arrivals number.”
Perhaps we should earn your pay and answer these questions for us.
*Perhaps you should earn your pay and answer these question for us.
Irene the ACs head was in her ass for so long that hair stop growing on her head, she must be the yard duck on the DLP farm in order to buy hair and gold, notice how she write on BU a lot of what pass from the ass, sh..ite and also she is using the fuc.k word in writing now shows how really fuc.k up her mind have become, can it be from the 2008 ? no, her mind was always fuc.k up
Not sure why some are associating ac with Senator Sandiford-Garner. We need to make comment and stay away from personalization especially when they are incorrect.
On 31 May 2015 at 16:32, Barbados Underground wrote:
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Artaxerexes for many of us .we all the know role and the job of the spin misters and drum majors of doom and gloom. As usual the predictable froth with out substance,
@ watchman you are truly a despicable character.
@ David… These foot soldiers supposed to know everything,,,,
@ AC
Your writings are annoyances that causes strong dislike by people that can’t tolerate the offensive way, David of BU try to protect your ID, but you and Irene S-G / Senator have the same MO in writing, meaning you annoyed and when reprehensibility come, you cry victim just like the Irene S-G / Senator that OSA had to put in her place some years back
if you AC are not that Irene S-G / Senator say so, and stop crying victim
@ watchman May 31, 2015 at 4:05 PM,
Hands off AC. There are some of us who enjoy reading his postings!
“Put to the test: Barbados vs Bequia! A fortnight of Caribbean luxury to discover which idyllic island is the best
•Barbados and Bequia are great Caribbean breaks – but which is best?
•From hotels, to flight routes, and local character, they are put head to head
Bush Tea May 31, 2015 at 7:00 AM #
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You are so right about the brothel bit. The Ministry of Culture etc etc, has just announced plans to show case Nelson Street during our Bridgetown and the Garrison World Heritage Month, or something to the effect.
Exclaimer less is definitely more and I will prefer to holiday in Bequia. If Barbados want to remain a viable destination it needs mucho cleaning up and restoring. Do the people have the will?
Colonel we will be missing AC during those tours of Nelson St and its environs, she will be busy in her weave and garters.
Sorry islangal i belive you did mistake miller for ac,, somebody told me they saw him in that enviro all decked out in high heels and mini skirt some time ago . btw i have heard some not so nice news about miller,, i guess the news i heard might be right, so far miller has not responded to my pokes. he never has been a person lost for words,
Speaking of Nelson Streets .it can remain a viable part of Barbados economy ,if the area is restricted and license as a “red light district” Tourist like variety , A blp person told me to say that
@ Exclaimer
I used a keyboard on Ac,
@ Islangal I will give AC the weave and garters if that what it takes
@ watchman i suspect all along that you were one of them closet freaks.. so my suspicions were right and so were my eyes seeing you a few weeks ago all decked out in booty shorts and fish net stockings, wearing a blond weave
This is hysterical. I don’t book a “last minute” vacation to Barbados because it is cold in the Northeast US where I live. My vacation is planned at least 6 months out for international travels. In the case of my trip in Feb 2015 to Sandals Barbados it was planned in October 2013. The weather had nothing to do with it. The fact is, there is additional airlift to Barbados on American Airlines and Jetblue, which made it easy for me to use my Frequent Flier miles to come to the island. Then Sandals opened, and there was a brand I trusted. I overnighted at the Hilton before I went over to Sandals Barbados and had a great time on the Island, and loved the people. I personally didn’t enjoy Mr. Zellner the manager of Sandals Barbados as I think he is an arrogant jerk, but we will definitely be back to the island, just not at Sandals.
Yeeap there is a loud mout Brass Bowl calld Bush the Brass bowl Jerk who Thinks he Knows Every thing about tourism even weather predictions, what a JAc a,sss
People plan vacations for different reasons and at different times. Because you didn’t plan on impulse because of cold weather it doesn’t mean others didn’t.
LOL
Rob sounds to be just about as intelligent as ac … just!!
Ha ha ha
LOL
Oh shiirt!!! 🙂
Rob; Why did you have to overnight at the Hilton in such a well planned vacation?
Here we go again with these two class clowns trying to argue speculation against a ( given) fact. Only a brass bowl one of the highest order would dismiss the relevancy and importance of advance preplaned vacations methods that are pocket savings and not heavily relying on weather.
If ac is the lady you guys say she is then she must have had some sort of brain damage since school days. She is unintelligible mostly. I can’t say I noticed such mental deficiency way back then. If she had been that stupid then she would have been the talk of the school.
Beware of comments ‘planted’.
..that was obvious David
ac
Rob said
” I personally didn’t enjoy Mr. Zellner the manager of Sandals Barbados as I think he is an arrogant jerk, but we will definitely be back to the island, just not at Sandals.”
What say you?
You ought to speak to Humble Butch about the Arrogant Mr. Zeliner.
are-we-there-yet June 1, 2015 at 8:44 AM #
“Rob; Why did you have to overnight at the Hilton in such a well planned vacation?”
I was also thought about that AWTY, this person’s comments made no sense at all. Here we have an individual who claims his “trip in Feb 2015 to Sandals Barbados was planned in October 2013”, yet he “overnighted at the Hilton before (he) went over to Sandals Barbados.”
I suspect “Rob’s” comments have been authored by certain individuals specifically to “substantiate” the government’s position on this topic.
Summer will tell it all
Simple, I was on the late flight that gets into BGI at almost 10pm. Why would I want to waste a day of paying Sandals $500+ per night, for 2 hours of use, when I can used Hilton points to stay for free?
Wow you guys really are a bunch of conspiracy theorists. Feel free to have Adrian or someone else check my ip if you wish.
As far as Butch, I made my comments known to him when he was on property.
Also, lets look at it from my perspective being in the North East, if I wanted to do a last minute vacation, it would be to Jamaica or DR, why? they are inexpensive in comparison to Barbados, St. Lucia. Also, it is easier to get to those destinations. From DC, we direct flights to Jamaica, DR, Bahamas etc. Barbados I had to go through JFK or Miami. Maybe some folks from NYC did last minute vacations, or maybe Toronto, but outside of origin destination last minute get aways it doesn’t really happen. Don’t believe me? But what do I know, for the same price as what I paid in Barbados, I could have gone to the Maldives. Not only that, it would have taken the same amount of planes to get there. If Barbados wants to attract more tourists, it needs to let its currency float like Jamaica’s, and get more airlift.
David u are being meanspirited u mean to say that a comment showing disagreement is now “aplanted “comment What is your proof. .Btw not every one is ignorant to facts.guh long do.it is obvious that u have an axe to grind.
People plan vacations to different destination for different reasons, cost and or routing is not always the consideration.
What world do you live in? If I have set amount of money, then yes cost is always a consideration.
Some will pay extra to travel to Barbados because there is less crime etc, because you made a different decision it does not preempt others from making a different one.
There is crime everywhere. By your logic, I should stay in the US, because the homicide rate per thousand is 3 less than Barbados. No offense, but I don’t look at the crime rate before I go internationally. Why? I spend most of my time at whatever resort I go to. If I did, then I should have gone to Antigua. If I wanted to go to the eastern caribbean. https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=17240
Oh my god David you are being ridiculous with your insane anology the fact is that people check their pocket book savings first and foremost. How ridiculous can u get using crime as a legitimate example for travelling.u need to stop listening to the old fart bush shite
@ Rob
Regardless of how much “floating of our currency that we do like the Jamaican $$” we still arrive at the same point where
1) a local rated 5 star hotel would secure a ‘grading’, ‘rating’, and ‘classification’ of a negative number in civilized country
2) where the price of Corn Flakes that I buy for US$3.99 a box costs and incredible, inflated US$12,
where 3) a 6 oz. piece of sirloin that is $6 at Gayot Restaurant cost $54 her on this Rock
4) where your so called duty free shops are robbing stations for unsuspecting tourists and where essentially, a host of conflated prices that we Bajans just dream up every night when we go to sleep prevail as the order of the day because “the tourists loveeeee Bulbados sooooo badddd”
@ Donna
The mental deficiency that is displayed by ACs, can be find in all the DLP farm yard stocks
and trace back to 2008 when they eat the fatted cow King David Thompson offered without knowing what kind of additives that were in the fodder that feed the cow, being the king David Thompson eat the most, dry up and dead, but the rest are left with mental deficiency we must pray for them
I got robbed at a regular grocery store in the gap. 44 barbados for a pint of ice cream….didn’t need the duty free for that one.
@watchman u hate ac so much thst it gives all the ac,s great pleasure to be of an annoyance to u .
@Rob
You may have the last word.
David
Well done
I was going to tell Bob Jr to STFU
I see you have shut him the F out
@ AC
I don’t hate , I dislike what you ACs have become since 2008,
@DD
There is Rob and there is Bob the spammer.
Some of us are not surprised, the numbers rounded down. Have we heard any revision of the 25% propaganda ?
http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/68211/matters-missteps-tourism-arrivals
People plan vacations to different destination for different reasons, cost > and or routing is not always the consideration. > > >
I guess Lyrical Lave PR is working on a new Press Release
See
Missing data
Hoteliers react to Govt’s latest tourism figures
@ http://www.barbadostoday.bb/2015/06/05/127001/
“The average length of time on the island per long stay visitor was not given, except for majority of the 217,139 cruise visitors for the period under review who had an average stay of between seven and 10 days.”
cruise visitors for the period under review who had an average stay of between seven and 10 days?
Should this be between seven and ten hours?
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