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On May 10, the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) will welcome tour operators from around the world to its premier business-to-business marketplace, Connect Barbados. To date, 87 international tour operators have registered, as compared to just 50 in 2016. Now in its 12th year, the three-day conference will be hosted under the theme ‘One Team, Winning Together’. Invitations were extended to tour operators across all of the island’s major source markets – the United Kingdom, the Unit...

May 11, 2021 Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by this author are their own and do not represent the official position of the Barbados Today Inc. by Guy Hewitt The frantic search for a CEO of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) is matched in recent memory only by the hunt for Winston Hall. But this is no laughing matter for tourism is the lifeblood of our economy, accounting in 2019 for 36.2  per cent of GDP. Due to COVID-19, thousands of households: workers, manage...

December 19, 2020 Former tourism minister Richard Sealy has slammed the Government’s management of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc (BTMI) over the “outrageous” absence of an official at its helm. Sealy said he could not understand how, at a time when the country’s tourism industry had been decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the main entity responsible for marketing tourism has gone without a leader. The post of CEO has remained vacant since the resignation of  William Bi...