The peak winter season is over. Ahead of us are eight long softer summer months and every creative fibre throughout our national body should now go into hyperdrive to help maximize our tourism potential until December. We need our food and wine distributors to become more ardent and see how better they can work with our hospitality industry to jointly
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Submitted by Tee White As someone who grew up bathing on Heywoods beach, I am extremely concerned at the way Sandals construction of their Beaches hotel there is going. Putting aside for now, the current disagreement between the government and Butch Stewart over the indemnities Sandals want signed into law, there are other aspects of what is going on there
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As our days as active hands–on hoteliers come to a conclusion it maybe time to reflect on our 30 year journey in order to acknowledge and personally thank some of the many people who have helped make our seemingly impossible dream reality. By the time we completed the purchase of the then derelict Arawak Inn, from initial contractual agreement to
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Returning on a completely full British Airways flight from Gatwick last Monday it was a joy to find the Automated Passport Kiosks finally fully functional and I was able to clear Immigration within a couple of minutes. Several staff – which we are left to assume – are placed there by one of the Barbados Tourism entities, were very visible
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The following letter was shared by a trusted source – David, blogmaster Dear Editor, The Sandals Barbados fiasco: Throwing out the baby with the bathwater, otherwise known in the Caribbean as snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. My name is James Bristol. I am a lawyer from Grenada and I negotiated the incentive agreements with the government of Barbados
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All indications are that many of our visitors are becoming even more savvy or perhaps better described as creative in how they actually book and pay for holidays, tourism services and the various type of accommodation offerings. One such area of usage and growth are websites like TopCashback currently with separate operational entities in both the United Kingdom and United
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2019 is a year of several notable anniversaries in the travel and tourism industry that include the maiden flight of Concorde on 2nd March and 1969 and the Boeing B747 ‘Jumbo’ on 9th February 1969. Both aircraft in their own way changed the face of air travel as we knew it and in the latter case would transform mass tourism
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