Virgin Money together with Virgin Atlantic has recently launched two new credit cards which could significantly add benefit to our UK based visitors and encourage more people to travel to the Caribbean. There is a choice, between an annual fee-free Virgin Atlantic Reward card, or a GB Pounds 160 per year Virgin Atlantic Reward + credit card. Both MasterCard branded
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As we edge apparently aimlessly towards an inevitable general election there appears, at least through my eyes, little or no compulsion to place my X on the ballot paper of any wannabe politician in my constituency. We have only seen our current representative twice in over ten years, a onetime visit to our property and the second at a popular
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We now have over 36 weeks or more than 250 days to maximise our visitor arrivals numbers before normal climatic global conditions return with the start of a new winter season. Frankly our summers have always been a challenge and whatever spin we put on this long running scenario, there are little more than band-aid solutions available, if we are
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Mighty Gabby of Jack fame led a protest at the Crane beach on the 31 March 2018 triggered by the decision of Crane Resort management to restrict vendor access on the beach adjoining their property. His message was crystal clear to Paul Doyle, Butch Stewart and ilk – view video embedded in the blog. The blogmaster is of the view
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Submitted by Tara A. Inniss. PhD (UWI) MSD (UNSW) BA (York). Department of History and Philosophy, Cave Hill Campus, The University of the West Indies, Barbados, innisst@yahoo.com, The History Forum Blog When Gabby wrote ‘Jack’ in the early 1980s, he was responding to hoteliers asserting their rights over beach front property. Some almost 40 years later, Barbadians have felt secure
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From my very early days in the tourism industry I have never really thought that there was anything overly complicated about the sector which necessitated even remote levels of rocket science. But there are just some people in key decision making roles, who simply do not understand what it takes to function properly. Having just spent a couple of weeks
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One of the biggest challenges to expanding the already successful re-DISCOVER dine-around initiative has been the failure to better explain the concept of revenue control to some of our restaurants. Just ten customers each evening, ordering the re-DISCOVER menu six nights per week and 50 weeks per year generates almost $300,000 in additional revenue, per establishment annually. While this portion
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