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Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) announced on Monday it is bidding farewell to global head of markets and interim CEO
Petra Roach, who is leaving to take up a new opportunity with the
Grenada Tourism Authority later this year.
In a statement from the Board, BTMI Chairman Roseanne Myers thanked Roach for her notable contribution to Barbados’ tourism industry over the years. “On behalf of the Board, management and staff we say a sincere thank you to Petra Roach for her years of service and leadership,” Myers said. “She has been a tremendous asset to Barbados for two decades and her contribution to the growth and development of tourism sector has been outstanding.”
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Chatrani is executive chairman at Apes Hill Development
Article by April 10, 2021
Veteran tourism executive Sunil Chatrani is now a shareholder and executive chairman of Apes Hill Development.
Chatrani, former Chief Executive Officer of the Elegant Hotel Group, is building the team to relaunch the 450-acre site, currently undergoing significant redevelopment, and scheduled to reopen in November 2021
Chatrani has more than 30 years of experience in finance, tourism, mergers and acquisitions and strategy in Barbados and throughout the region.
“Sunil is a visionary, trusted and proven leader,” said Glenn Chamandy, who purchased the assets of Apes Hill in early 2020, “his market knowledge and strong relationships are exemplary, he is ideally suited to drive the future success of Apes Hill. I look forward to working closely with Sunil, and to the upcoming opening of our fully renovated golf course including our signature
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Article by April 9, 2021
Come next month new protocols will be in place for vaccinated visitors to Barbados, including a shorter quarantine.
However, as the country prepares to welcome a larger number of tourists, a special committee has been established to monitor those protocols and to ensure security at quarantine facilities is up to scratch.
Revealing that the new protocols would take effect from May 8, Prime Minister Mia Mottley explained that Barbados could no longer afford to keep the tourism sector partially closed as it accounted for 45 per cent of all economic activity.
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Vaccinated visitors will be welcome to Barbados under a new public health protocol from May 8.
Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley said yesterday the decision was one backed by science, and based on a combination of the country’s decreasing positivity rate of COVID-19, continuation of the National Vaccine Programme, and its improved capacity to do more testing if required.
In a nationally televised address, she said it was important the country got its economic engines turning again, and there was no better place to start than with its biggest income earner, tourism.
“That thing that sustains a large part, 45 per of our economic activity, is tourism. That cannot remain shut down and closed, particularly because since the beginning of this year there has been a large number of persons in our traditional source markets who have been vaccinated, and who have expressed a determination to travel later in this year,” Mottley said.