Category: Hotel News

Over 1,200 Employees Enroll in Initial Phase of BHA On-Line Foreign Language Training Program. LiveMocha Now Available to All BHA Members 

As part of its initiatives to assist members with taping into more international markets, the Bahamas Hotel Association and the Bahamas Hotel Association of Human Resource Professionals (BHAHRP), in cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism, is making available to members a low-cost, easy to use foreign language speaking program for front line, supervisory and management staff.

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SEVERAL major Nassau-based hotel properties told Tribune Business yesterday they were seeing strong occupancy levels for this week’s July 4  US Independence Day holiday.
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THE Government is concerned there are not enough trained persons to capitalise on the 8,000 jobs expected to be created in the next two years, when the $2.6 billion Baha Mar project is completed, the Minister of Education, Science and Technology Jerome Fitzgerald has said.
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SOME 87 per cent of small Bahamian hotels in the Family Islands are not realising their potential because they do not accept credit card booking payments online, Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) president, Stuart Bowe, said yesterday.
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The Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) is calling for the elimination of the 25 per cent market value investment required under the Hotels Encouragement Act for the renewal of investment incentives.

Its President Stuart Bowe told Tribune Business many small hotels were unable to come up with that much capital to invest in tough economic times.
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The Bahamas Hotel Association is hosting its 9th Annual Summer Educators Internship Program in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (MOE) and the Ministry of Tourism (MOT).
 
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The Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) has welcomed the Government’s “added thrust” to support local hoteliers and more Bahamian investment in the industry, following its announcement of plans to create more opportunities for Bahamians to own hotels via a national resort development initiative.
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Occupancy numbers are up by nearly eight percent for the 14 major hotels in New Providence, continuing the positive trend seen in the industry since the beginning of the year.
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