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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 argued that while she understood there were some impacts from international threats over which the isl...

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 drive forward bookings for summer 2023.“The campaign will utilise bookbarbados.com as the primary c...

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 of the island’s tourism industry at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Grand Cayman, on day one of the Car...

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 …