‘Nearly 12 million Britons watched in horror as Sir David Attenborough laid bare the stark impact plastics are having on some of the world’s most precious ecosystems and endangered species during his Blue Planet II TV series’. This was the opening introduction to an excellent article published recently in the UK tourism travel publication, Travel Trade Gazette. Like the United
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Discounting has always been a sensitive subject in the tourism industry and I seriously doubt that will change in the foreseeable future. As a British based tour operator for twelve years our company never discounted a single holiday, except as an incentive to encourage early booking and even more important, early payment. We are talking about a time when commercial
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Officially from today, the second airline departure tax will be levied on all flight tickets purchased, adding another US$70 per person, irrespective of age, for extra regional travel and US$35 within the Caribbean. Time will tell of course of the impact that it will have on arrival numbers and perhaps more importantly, average spend, but clearly in certain markets, it
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During 8th to 13th of October 2018 Barbados will host the Caribbean Week of Agriculture, which has been described as the region’s premier agricultural event of the regional calendar. The declared theme is stated as ‘strengthening agriculture for a healthier future in the region’. Throughout the week ‘farmers, policymakers, youth, experts in the field of agriculture and other stakeholders, will
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To celebrate our wedding anniversary, my wife and I experienced a brief staycation at one of our newer hotels in St. Lawrence Gap that is currently offering an excellent value local rate. The property and level of service certainly exceeded our expectations. During our stay we took the opportunity of walking The Gap and apart from a few notable exceptions,
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While I know this week’s column is going to attract some criticism in certain quarters, I believe we still have to discuss these things and to creatively help mitigate the obvious negative consequences of such decisions. We are now just days away from the 1st October 2018 imposition of what amounts to a secondary departure tax that our cherished visitors
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Many years ago, I bounced an idea off the late Sir Harold St. John, which we dubbed the 10/10 concept. Originally the 10/10 concept was geared towards our 100 plus small hotels which, according to the recognised Caribbean definition, is a property under 76 rooms, the typical small hotel on Barbados is closer to 22 rooms. The objective was to
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