March busiest month for tourism since start of COVID-19 pandemic
Approximately 60,000 tourists visited Bahamas based on number of health visas sold Tourists and residents exit the arrivals terminal at the Lynden Pindling International Airport in this file photo. AHVIA J. CAMPBELL
Although official numbers are not out, March was the busiest month for visitor arrivals since the start of COVID-19 travel restrictions, with early indications showing that approximately 60,000 tourists visited The Bahamas based on the amount of health visas sold.
Minister of Tourism and Aviation Dionisio D’Aguilar confirmed yesterday that the number of visas required to enter the country has nearly doubled since the peak in December.
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In this file photo, a Carnival cruise ship (right) in Nassau’s cruise port.
Nassau Guardian- Carnival Cruise Line is banking on the US opening up during the summer and won’t be homeporting its ships in the Caribbean.
While Royal Caribbean International hopes to get the jump on a return to cruising in June by homeporting in Nassau, Carnival Cruise Line (CCL) is holding on to hope that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lifts its conditional sail order by June, with CCL President Christine Duffy shunning the idea of homeporting outside the US and calling CCL “America’s cruise line” in a video released last week.
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Rishi Sunak is under increasing pressure to provide more money for the NHS and struggling households amid criticism from tax and spending experts that his Budget plans to repair the Covid-19 damage to public finances were unrealistic.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Resolution Foundation, with the head of the Treasury’s own independent forecasting body, all questioned whether it would be possible to deliver the cuts in spending that are central to the chancellor’s strategy.
Sunak, on a visit to Teesside to champion free ports, was forced on to the defensive after the IFS said he had done “screeching U-turns” on previous Conservative party tax policy, and attacked the abrupt way in which the £20 a week increase in universal credit would end in September.
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