Category: BHA News

The BHTA continues to advocate for and promote workforce development and readiness through initiatives such as the Tourism Champion’s – which, in 2014, has turned its focus on “Tourism’s Rising Stars”.

The program serves to highlight the nation’s graduating students via the media, specifically the Nassau Guardian, who have successfully completed Hospitality or Tourism Related coursework.
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Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe says that he is determined to attract the prestigious culinary competition “Taste of the Caribbean” to the Bahamas. The 2014 competition, which opened in front of thousands of food lovers in Miami over the weekend, features the Bahamas team and finishes today.
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A panel of industry leaders claimed that The Bahamas is “desperate” for bright, driven young professionals, while highlighting opportunities within underdeveloped sectors.

“The country has the right to expect more from you,” stated businessman Franklyn Wilson of young Bahamians, while encouraging them to take advantage of entrepreneurship and overlapping opportunities within the tourism, services, and agriculture industries.

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Key tourism stakeholders have been meeting with professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) to help define what the prime minister has described as a plan to “overhaul” how this country promotes and develops its tourism product, in light of “changing dynamics” in the industry.

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The chief of Atlantis, the country’s largest private sector employer, said it the resort is now ready to “do what needs to be done” to implement value-added tax (VAT), adding that the company is “thankful” that the government has decided to delay the tax until 2015.
…Continue readingAtlantis ‘Ready To Do What Needs To Be Done’ On VAT