Board of Directors & Membership Meeting
Bahamas Hotel Association Board of Directors & Membership MeetingThursday, October 7, 2010 at 9:30amEleuthera Room, second floorWyndham Nassau Resort & Crystal Palace CasinoRSVP: 322-8381
Bahamas Hotel Tourism Association
The Unified Voice of Bahamian Tourism
Bahamas Hotel Association Board of Directors & Membership MeetingThursday, October 7, 2010 at 9:30amEleuthera Room, second floorWyndham Nassau Resort & Crystal Palace CasinoRSVP: 322-8381
The BHA is excited to be partnering with the organizers of the upcoming Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF) to move forward the discussion and implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency programs in The Bahamas and the region.
2010 Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF)
Gala Reception: Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Conference: Thursday, October 14 and Friday, October 15, 2010
At Atlantis Resort,
Paradise Island, Bahamas
The Ministry of Tourism’s plans to develop an electronic booking engine for all Bahamian hotel accommodation have been lauded as “the most significant piece of infrastructure for the tourism sector for a long time”, the minister of tourism and aviation describing it as key to converting “latent demand” for this nation into reality.
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Making it into the elite of the region’s culinary teams, the Bahamas was recognized as one of the top finalists in the region which competed at the Taste of the Caribbean Culinary Classics held at the Rio Mar Wyndham Grand Resort in Puerto Rico.
The team walked away with a gold medal, yielding only to Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, which edged them out for the top awards. Members of the team came away with individual medals, capturing six awards.
BHA Eye on the Storm…
Tracking reports as of 7:00am this morning show the powerful Category 4 storm veering east of The Bahamas.
The Bahamas Met Department has issued a Tropical Storm watch for the Southeastern Bahamas in anticipation that the fringes of the storm may generate sustained 40 mph winds in that area by early Wednesday morning when the storm is anticipated to take a more northerly track keeping it a comfortable distance from the central and northwestern Bahamas…
THE Nassau/Paradise Island resort industry is “60 per cent of the way back” to pre-September 2008 levels on revenue generation and occupancies, the Bahamas Hotel Association’s (BHA) president said yesterday, telling Tribune Business he estimated the sector would return to pre-recession numbers by the 2011 second quarter.
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THE Bahamian hotel industry is concerned that current business projections for September and October, the low point of the tourism season, “are fairly flat” against 2009 comparatives, Tribune Business was told last night, although the sector was encouraged by July occupancy levels that almost matched pre-recession figures.
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