Category: BHA News

Negotiations are underway to get even more airlift into the Family Islands, Guardian Business has learned, with recent discussions held between Tourism and Continental Airlines on getting direct airlift into that troubled market.
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The Bahamian hotel industry should be “at least 50 per cent of the way” to returning to pre-2008 Wall Street crash numbers by year-end if it maintains current performance trends, the Bahamas Hotel Association’s (BHA) president telling Tribune Business the organisation had made several proposals to mitigate the impact of any rise in electricity tariffs.
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It may take upwards of a year for The Bahamas to see the real effects of the Travel Professionals of Color (TPOC) conference that hosted over 200 travel professionals from the U.S.
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Albany has managed to weather a financial storm which has claimed around 50 of its competitors around the Caribbean, the development’s managing partner told Guardian Business.
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The developer of an $857 million Bahamas-based resort project breached a Bahamian Supreme Court order requiring it to hand over the books and accounting records to its development partner, an International Arbitration Tribunal ruling has found.
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NASSAU/Paradise Island and Grand Bahama saw a 5 per cent increase in stopover visitor arrivals year-over-year based on preliminary data, the Minister of Tourism and Aviation said yesterday, with March showing a 10-13 per cent increase for both destinations.
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The $867 million South Ocean redevelopment’s new managing partner yesterday pledged to “end the impasse in this project” for the benefit of the Bahamian people, after an International Arbitration Tribunal ruling blasted its predecessor for leaving the development in a “shambles”, ordering it to repay almost $3 million.
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FAMILY Island hotels are lauding the Ministry of Tourism’s Free Family Island Fare promotion, with some owners telling Tribune Business they think it could “markedly” increase foreign and domestic tourism.
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Thursday, April 8, 2010
9:30am
Wyndham Nassau Beach Resort
Eleuthera Room

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