Category: Hotel News

Air arrivals to New Providence achieved their highest quarterly growth for 28 years during the final three months of 2018, expanding by 20.6 percent to complete a strong year for Bahamian tourism.

The Central Bank’s latest quarterly economic review, covering the final quarter of 2018, revealed: “Total visitors to New Providence strengthened by 15.9 percent during the review quarter, a turnaround from a 2.1 percent reduction in the preceding year, as the key air component firmed by 20.6 percent – the largest percentage increase since 1990, while sea passengers advanced by 14.3 percent.

…Continue readingNassau Air Arrivals Strike 28-Year Peak

Chef Jamal Small will lead Team Bahamas into competition at this year’s Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s Taste of the Caribbean event, considered to be the culinary Olympics of the Caribbean, with five members from last year’s squad doing battle with him.

The team captain will be joined by senior chef Kevyn Pratt, pastry chef Celeste Smith, junior chef Hazen Rolle, beef category chef Astier Dean, seafood category chef Tevin Kemp, chef Caribbean 305 Leonardis Moss and mixologist Derrick Blackmon for the June 21-25 competition in Miami, Florida. Devin Johnson will travel as the team manager with Mario Adderley as the team administrator.

Small, Pratt, Smith, Rolle and Blackmon were all members of the 2018 squad. Small is going in as the defending Caribbean chef of the year; Rolle is going in as the defending junior chef of the year.

…Continue readingNational Culinary Squad Named

Frank Comito, the CEO and director general for the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association, has announced that the CHTA will hold its annual Caribbean Travel Marketplace in the Bahamas next year. New resort destination Baha Mar will host the event at its Performing Arts and Convention Center from January 21-23, 2020.

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The Bahamas is set to host the Caribbean’s leading tourism marketing event in 2020.

The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s Caribbean Travel Marketplace will be hosted at the Baha Mar resort in Nassau in early 2020.

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The Nassau/Paradise Island hotel industry has “rebounded with gains not seen for ten years”, it was revealed yesterday, as room revenues closed 2018 up 34 percent year-over-year.

Robert Sands, pictured, Baha Mar’s senior vice-president of government and external affairs, told Tribune Business that last year’s momentum had been maintained through “a very strong 2019 first quarter” with most tourism industry participants confident these trends will hold for the full year barring any hurricanes or unanticipated economic shocks.

…Continue readingHotels: ‘We’Ve Never Seen This In Ten Years’

Photos from the Tru Tru Bahamian Festival

A male visitor from Pennsylvania, plucked randomly from the crowd to judge a pepper sauce competition at the weekend Tru Tru Bahamian Festival, got more than he bargained for which was more than the hot sauce experience. Prior to the pepper sauce tastings, he developed a case of the hiccups, and with no water anywhere to be found, and surrounded by a bunch of Bahamians he was advised to stick a piece of brown paper on his forehead.

With no brown paper bags in sight, he was encouraged to take a piece of his mate’s white paper bag, wet it thoroughly in his mouth and then stick it on his forehead. He was a little stunned and apprehensive at the advice, but he proved to be a trooper, and showed his spirit by doing it. Within seconds of pressing the piece of paper to his forehead he announced that his hiccups had surprisingly stopped, to which he was informed that he had just had a true-true Bahamian experience.

…Continue readingThe Festival That Displays What It Means To Be Bahamian