Category: BHA News

One to two percent growth is projected for Bahamas hotel occupancy levels during the first quarter of 2011, leaving the industry still far off pre-recession highs.
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The Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) has been informed that the Prime Minister is “giving serious consideration” to its recommendation that requirements, which must be met under the Hotels Encouragement Act to enable hotels to access materials for infrastructure upgrades duty free, be eased.
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Projections of a merry weekend for most hotels throughout The Bahamas are being given by the Bahamas Hotel Association, with marginal growth expected for this Christmas season compared to the corresponding 2009 period.
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The Bahamas Hotel Association wishes you happy holidays and a wonderful new year

The Junkanoo Committee of New Providence has advised that as of Wednesday, December 22, and until December 26, 2010 Junkanoo Tickets for the Boxing Day and New Year parades will…Continue readingJunkanoo Tickets

AN INTEGRATED network of CCTV cameras will start to monitor the streets of Nassau next year in the first wave of a new initiative to assist police in the fight against crime.
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THE Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) said it is “hopeful” that room occupancy numbers and general conditions in the tourism industry will improve in the first quarter of next year.
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Having served as President of the Bahamas Hotel Association longer than any other individual since the organization was established fifty-eight years ago, Robert ‘Sandy’ Sands thanked BHA members at their recent Annual General Meeting as he stepped aside as President to make way for a new leadership team which assumes office at the turn of the year.
 
BHA members elected Stuart Bowe, Senior Vice President for Kerzner International, as their 2011 President.  Bowe brings to BHA over 20 years of hotel management and leadership experience, presently overseeing the operations of 1116 rooms as General Manager for the Coral and Beach Towers.
 
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Addressing members of the Bahamas Hotel Association at its 58th Annual General Meeting, President Sandy Sands stated that while most tourism indicators inched up in 2010, the year has been “a mixed bag of revenue gains, higher operating costs, and global uncertainty”.
 
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BHA Members…
Plan to Join Us on Friday, December 3rd
 
BHA Annual General Meeting
9:30 – 12 Noon
Wyndham Nassau Resort

Activity Report to Members, Elections, and Roundtable Discussion on State of Industry and Future Outlook led by Senator The Honourable Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, Minister of Tourism & Aviation.  (Details on special airfare and accommodation rates for Grand Bahama, Out Island and International members are listed below.)
 
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