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BHTA optimistic more entities will sign on BEST
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As Cabinet gets ready to approve changes to a plan that was set up to help keep tourism industry workers employed, and with a dramatic reduction in tourism arrivals, more hoteliers have been applying for financial assistance.
Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) Senator Rudy Grant reported that to date some 55 hotels have applied for assistance under the Barbados Employment and Sustainable Transformation (BEST) programme, with 40 of them being approved.
Under the employment component, businesses are expected to re-hire all of their workers on 80 per cent or their normal salary for up to two years, should the need arise.
BHTA, BPSA to examine mininum wage proposal
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Already suffering from a dramatic reduction in business, some hoteliers could be hard-pressed to increase wages of some workers at the lower end of the spectrum if Government’s proposed national minimum wage of $8.50 per hour takes effect
on April 1, as planned.
To determine the impact that such a rate could have on some sectors,
Today’s BUSINESS has learned that the private sector was currently engaging the services of a consultant to carry out research across several sectors so that those findings could be presented to Government.
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Barbados’ long-stay visitor arrivals plummeted to 93 per cent but tourism officials remain optimistic the industry will rebound.
Chief executive officer of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA), Senator Rudy Grant, painted a gloomy picture of the current situation in a media conference on Thursday, revealing that hotel occupancy had fallen as low as six per cent in January.
The BHTA executive attributed the dramatic drop in numbers to several factors associated with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but he said based on reports from tour operators and other travel industry representatives in Barbados’ main source markets, the desire for travel to Barbados was still high.
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