Category: Hotel News

Bahamian developers claim they are close to receiving final approval for a golf course resort near Harbour Island that would bring up to 400 new jobs to Eleuthera.
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What is 60 seconds worth?

For the Ministry of Tourism, the price is almost $200,000. That is the bill attached to the much-anticipated Super Bowl Sunday commercial, filmed on location in the Exumas with celebrities Rick Fox, Shakara Ledard and David Copperfield.

The coveted television spot left Bahamians buzzing. But just how many people saw it?
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A new law imposed by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is setting off alarm bells among members of the Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA).

…Continue readingU.S. Law Shakes Tourism Sector

The Ministry of Tourism is seeking to attract up to 1.8 million stopover visitors in 2013 by cultivating new markets in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Obie Wilchcombe, the minister of tourism, announced yesterday that a number of meetings are scheduled with representatives from these markets, many of which have expressed an active interest in The Bahamas. His comments came at press conference ahead of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s (CHTA) Caribbean Travel Marketplace 2013, beginning on January 20 at Atlantis.
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The Bahamas saw double-digit growth in arrivals last year in three Latin American markets, picking up the slack from European counties still in the depths of financial crisis.
…Continue readingReport: Latin America Arrivals Up 88%

The hotel sector was impacted by highs and lows in 2012 according to the head of the Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA).
…Continue readingBowe: Challenges Impacted Hotel Sector In 2012