If the availability of low cost airfares from across our main markets is any indication, then January and perhaps February should be especially bumper months for our accommodation providers, especially among the lower priced budget offerings. Return flights to Barbados from Gatwick for as little at GB Pounds 269, which is quite remarkable in itself, when you consider this fare
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Delivering consistently good customer service, across the board, has for a long time has been one of the greatest and contentious challenges on Barbados. And even if locals have been conditioned to accepting the many failings, our visitors are starting to rebel, contending whether increasingly high prices, are indeed offering actual value-for-money or justifying the prices charged. While running a
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This week, I would like to follow on from my tourism wish list for this year, but by putting suggestions on how we can make a meaningful difference to the industry locally. Whatever we do collectively to increase airlift into Barbados, unless the average annual room occupancy for our hotels, villas and other accommodation options can be dramatically improved, we
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What would the first column of a new year be without including a tourism wish list? And not necessarily in any order of priority or potential realization! As Air Canada prepares to roll-out publicly, its first new re-branded Airbus A220-300 airplane, number one of 45 on order, exciting opportunities present themselves, especially within the Caribbean. This ‘incredibly fuel efficient’ aircraft
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As we prepare to enter another new year, Christmas and the festive season gives way to traditionally the busiest holiday booking period in many of our major markets, notably the United Kingdom. I would like to designate 2020 as the Year of Opportunity. With a new head of our national tourism marketing agency shortly in place, perhaps we could use
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Hindsight is, of course, a wonderful thing, but I wonder just how many tourism industry observers had any real idea of how extensive the debts owed by the collapsed Thomas Cook Group might finally tally. According to a recent Travel Trade Gazette article, the United Kingdom Official Receiver has reported that ‘Thomas Cook collapsed owing creditors nearly GB Pounds 9
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Even in ideal times, the job of Chief Executive Officer of your national tourism marketing agency must be one of the most challenging positions. Compound this with perhaps the worst case fiscal scenario that the country has ever experienced, and it could not have been made any easier. As if already navigating through the inevitable party politics and the smattering
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