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Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Senator Lisa Cummins, said several initiatives aimed at reinvigorating the tourism sector were currently being planned, including future investment into a new convention centre. She was speaking on Sunday during a thanksgiving service to commemorate the start of Barbados Tourism week, held at the Sanctuary Empowerment Centre in Country Road, St Michael. Further referencing the current hotel project at Sam Lord’s Castle, the minister …

Officials of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) are pleading with authorities to do more to urgently tackle the issue of gun violence and to remove the remaining COVID-19 restrictions, which they say continue to make the destination uncompetitive.Chairman of the BHTA Renée Coppin warned that if the violence was not arrested then the struggling industry, which has been suffering from very little business over the past two-and-a-half-years could come under even more pressure.She ar...

Tourism officials are upbeat about a promising winter season ahead, and are already outlining plans to address a weak summer 2023 through targeted marketing.With the industry currently suffering from a lower than usual summer period, Chairman of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) Renée Coppin reported on Friday that the association was in the final stages of developing a two-tiered campaign intended to capture what business it could for the remaining few weeks of the period and d...

There is good news for entrepreneurs who depend on the cruise ship industry to make their living. The sector is expected to not only bounce back this winter season but return to pre-COVID-19 levels.Minister of Tourism and International Transport Senator Lisa Cummins announced on Monday that following a bleak summer period, close to 400 cruise ships carrying more than 700 000 passengers are expected to dock in Bridgetown between November this year and April 2023.During a presentation on the state...

Chairman of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) Renee Coppin is pinning hopes for improvement in low hotel occupancy levels on Barbados’ ability to attract more airlift into the island. Reporting to the media on the second quarter performance of the tourism industry on Monday, Coppin noted the island had experienced a near 60 per cent decrease in airlift for the current summer period, with the resulting decline in …

The Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) and the Barbados Entrepreneurship & Tourism Association (BETA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).  The two-year arrangement, intended to reinforce the strength of both o

The Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) has a new Chairman. She is Renée Coppin, who was elected at a Special General Meeting held by the Association last month.  This follows the departure of former Chairman Geoffrey Roach la

The Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) announced today that Renée Coppin was elected to the position of chairman at a special general meeting last month. This follows the departure of former chairman Geoffrey Roach last December. Roach served 18 months of his two-year term, occasioned by the discontinuation of the operations of the Bridgetown Cruise Terminal Inc. He was chief executive officer of the Bridgetown Cruise Terminals Inc. Coppin, …

Private sector company Bridgetown Cruise Terminals Inc. will cease operations of the Bridgetown Cruise Terminal at the Bridgetown Port on December 31, as the facility returns to Government management. Chief executive officer of the Bridgetown Cruise Terminals Inc. Geoffrey Roach made the disclosure at a meeting of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) earlier today while giving notice that he was stepping down as chairman of the BHTA  since …

Social Share Attorney General Dale Marshall has been tasked with providing the Mia Mottley administration with a legal opinion on the civil and criminal liability associated with aspects of mandatory vaccination and mandatory testing for COVID-19. And the results of that paper will set the table for a series of sectoral and national consultations on the way forward as Government tries to find a solution to the vexing problem of respecting people’s rights to choose whether they want to be v...