Tourism in Barbados

  • Director of Tourism Turks and Caicos after Irma: Tourism, visitors, hotels current status

    ARUBA, 2017/09/10 Resilient, powerful, strong and faithful. This is how Ramon Andrew described the people of Turks and Caicos. Ramon Andrews, the outspoken director of Tourism for the Caribbeans island country Turks and Caicos sounded somehow relieved at the same time as he updated the media today on the current situation on his island, specifically commenting on the safety of visitors and visitor industry professionals.

  • UNWTO: International tourism – strongest half-year results since 2010

    AFGHANISTAN, 2017/09/09 Destinations worldwide welcomed 598 million international tourists in the initial six months of 2017, some 36 million additional than in the same period of 2016. At 6%, increase was well above the trend of recent years, making the current January-June period the strongest half-year since 2010. Visitor numbers reported by destinations around the world reflect strong request for international travel in the initial half of 2017, according to the new UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. Worldwide, international tourist arrivals (overnight visitors) increased by 6% compared to the same six-month period last year, well above the sustained and consistent trend of 4% or higher increase since 2010. This represents the strongest half-year in seven years.

  • Over 3,000 jobs coming with redevelopment of historic property in Barbados

    BARBADOS, 2015/11/27 The redevelopment of the near 200-year-old Sam Lord’s Castle into a hotel managed by the world’s major hotel company will bring with it 3,000 local jobs, Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has disclosed. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony at the 57-acre site in the eastern parish of St. Philip yesterday, he said the new Sam Lord’s Castle Barbados, A Wyndham Grand Resort is as well expected to bring in significant amounts of foreign exchange. “The macro-economic implications of the project cannot be understated. The hotel will employ in excess of 1,000 persons next completion, and is as well expected to generate approximately 2,000 additional jobs in other sectors of the economy. Foreign exchange earnings to be made by the property are estimated at over US$70 million a year, with a direct contribution to the GDP of US$35 million,” Stuart said.

  • Barbados Minister of Tourism gives his industry a big push

    BARBADOS, 2014/10/05 Realizing Barbados potential as a tourism destination was officially launched last night. As reported in the local media the Barbados Minister of Tourism and International Transport, Richard Sealy, unveiled the official logo of the National Tourism Host Programme (NTHP), called “Barbados Together” at a ceremony held at Queen’s Park. According to Sealy, “We are driving and coordinating our destination management within the framework of a coherent strategy.” The Minister explained that the goal of the initiative is to enhance the knowledge base and raise levels of awareness of the importance of the various facets of the country’s tourism product “...part those persons employed or associated with hospitality industry but with the general people as well. That is what we refer to as the Barbados Together element of the programme. You can well appreciate this is needed as a matter of concern for all country.”

  • The Caribbean Tourism Association (CTO)

    BARBADOS, 2012/12/28 The Caribbean Tourism Association (CTO) is forging ahead with a regional marketing plan intended to make the Caribbean the world’s number tourism destination by 2017. Beverly Nicholson-Doty, chair of the Caribbean Tourism Council of Ministers and Commissioners, said a CTO regional marketing programme was a project that had seen a lot of “stops and starts”.
Trending Articles