‘Overhaul’ pending for tourism’s BEST plan
Article by March 11, 2021
The scheme put in place to help tourism business maintain jobs and upgrade their facilities will now undergo periodic reviews, tourism officials said Wednesday.
But the officials remained tight-lipped about the changes that are on the horizon for the aid programme, known as the Barbados Employment and Sustainable Transformation (BEST).
Chairman of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) Geoffrey Roach said the overall proposed changes to the BEST plan were “still a work in progress” since they were yet to be presented to Parliament for approval.
But he revealed that “one of the things we have been able to obtain within the programme is a review period”.