UK Amber Alert Catspradles Tourist Sector
This week the UK relaxed overseas travel, however, based on a traffic light classification it means UK travellers to Barbados- a country classified AMBER- will have to quarantine for 10 days on return. Based on a BU source hotels and apartments in Barbados have started to receive cancellations.
Arrivals from countries on the amber list will need to quarantine at home for 10 days, in addition to forking out for tests before and after their trip. You should not travel there for leisure purposes.
Traffic light system: red, amber and green list countries – where can I go on holiday abroad?
The Barbados government front loaded its economic recovery strategy by expending significant resources to keep the local tourism industry afloat. The AMBER classification must be accepted for what it is, a body blow. Unless Prime Minister Mia Mottley can do a Houdini tourist traffic for the summer from our most profitable market just went south.
This event now unfolding must cause a critique of the COVID 19 immunization policy. Has the time come for the government through the Chief Medical Officer to authorize private medical facilities to deliver COVID 19 vaccinations? Unless were are able to achieve 70/80% coverage that defines herd immunity, we will not be able to refloat the tourism boat in the near term.
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As expected no real answers to my questions on tourism. I have more questions. What are we doing to export intangible exports like services and ideas online? What small light exportable items are on our radar for export? What is wrong with us as a country that we continue to stuck in the box?
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The government and private sector are happy with managing the retail and wholesale sectors because it employs thousands. We have allowed external players to own these two sectors. Our politicians are lazy in thought and happy to go with the popular sea sun sand concept and to satisfy being captive markets for those shifting money offshore although this is changing. Decades of operating in this mode with an education system which supports it mean becoming competitive in the global market is tantamount to turning a cargo ship on a dime.
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“What is wrong with us as a country that we continue to stuck in the box?”
in a nutshell:
your leaders are corrupt
lack basic intelligence
lack ethics
lack morals
are anti-Black
are anti-African
are anti-creative
are anti-Black wealth
are anti-Black empowerment
are anti-Black sovereign
are pro-racist
are pro-apartheid
are pro-white agendas
have you heard them talking about removing the colonial slave system that they did not create, that previously destroyed their ancestors and by extension 3 generations of recent survivors…which they oversaw….not one word about removing that damaging system, but they are going republic keeping the same toxic system in place..
…they have created NOTHING in 54 YEARS…so there you have it…
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” It is alleged that we forked out approximately US $375,000 (BDS$750,000) for the tag line “Little Island, Big Barbados”.
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https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/05/24/351735/
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Barbados from page 32.
Imagining a Post Covid 19 Recovery – IDB Quarterly BulletinDownload
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Good timing, the news from MoH.
Health Minister says Barbados has achieved desired COVID positivity rate: https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/05/24/health-minister-says-barbados-has-achieved-desired-covid-positivity-rate/
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From CNN
TSA reported this weekend travel to be 10% below that of 2019
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And the world not opened up fully yet
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@John2
Many have not questioned there is pent up demand for travel. The thrust of the debate is how do we wean from being 40 plus % GDP dependent on tourism given its fickle composition.
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I wasn’t even thinking about the pent up demand factor. I Was just passing on info on how far USA is back from the lows
That was an official number.. from the first flights ban , from time to time, I used to give a little update on how thing are at ATL where I pass through approximately weekly
I think you meant 20%. Not 40% if not the you woul have to explain how you arrived at 49 if you care to
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How to reduce the tourism gdp rate ?
Find oil like Guyana.
Most things we can do will de fickle and influence by external / climate factors
This is not sayin not to grow the other industries / diversify more . Everything can play it own part
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@ David May 27, 2021 6:53 PM
An excellent opportunity for Barbados to up its brand of tourism.
The Miller has been arguing for the longest time for Barbados to up its tourism game and turn itself into a little Amsterdam of the Eastern Caribbean.
But it has to either get rid of its stupid backward laws regarding marijuana or for the law enforcement robots to turn a blind eye (as they do to prostitution) for the sake of the country’s economic survival.
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@ John 2 May 24, 2021 7:45 PM
“How to reduce the tourism gdp rate ?
Find oil like Guyana.”
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Ye ole fool, stop living in the past of the 1970’s!
The world has evolved and is advancing its awareness of the environment and the human impact on it as a direct result of the burning of fossil-based fuels.
Oil has no future a rapidly warming world.
Just check out what is happening to the Shell Oil Company; one of the planet’s biggest producers, distributors and retailers of the hydrocarbon poisons to humanity.
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@Miller
The blogmaster is on the fence with decriminalizing cannabis, we have not done well as a country on executing anything.
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They can’t find anything to make diversify only a catch phrase, to use even the word one has to PUT IN THE WORK…and ya done know how lazy new negros are…
can’t say am sorry to see that everyone now knows them for what they truly are, the big front and façade has fallen away and showing the REAL them and dem and them.
why would anyone continue to trust any of them to manage a country, a tiny island, when the only thing they are capable of executing is bribery and corruption.
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Barbados set to benefit from holiday and investor traffic: https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/05/29/industry-expert-predicts-barbados-set-to-benefit-from-holiday-and-investor-traffic/
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Followed the link above and ran into this.
https://barbadostoday.bb/2021/05/29/brawl-video-prompts-importance-of-new-school-safety-app/
No comment other than it made me uncomfortable… 1984???
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Quote of the day:
“There is no coral around Barbados currently defined as very good. We have gone from good to very poor, but there was no area that was very good. And therefore, this tells us that there is a necessity to start managing this space,” the Minister( Kirk Humphrey) pointed out. (Barbados Today?
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Interesting development if we go with the customer is always right approach.
Source: Nation News
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