Barbados has been selected as the host country for the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association's (CHTA) flagship Caribbean Travel Marketplace event.
Now in its 41st edition, the event will take p.
Barbados has been selected as the host country for the 41st Caribbean Travel Marketplace.
The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) made the announcement on Friday, January 20 during a virtual press conference.
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Oistins Bay Gardens is celebrating its 27th anniversary with a bang. Members of the Bay Gardens 27th anniversary sub-committee held a media conference in Oistins yesterday alongside Government’s Special Advisor on Culture and Heritage, Senator John King; Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association chairman, Renee Coppin, National Conservation Commission chairman, Senator Lorenzo Harewood and Member of Parliament for Christ Church South, Ralph Thorne. Sub-committee chairman Julia Crawford said very little was …
Some taxi operators are adamant that they cannot wait three months to implement Government-approved rate increases as proposed by the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA).Doing so at this stage, they say, would mean that they lose out on the much-needed financial boost that comes with the peak tourism period.The taximen, who have welcomed the hike in rates, fear that the hoteliers may be attempting to “dictate” the affairs of the transport industry.“We deserved this rate increase. This has been 15 years and so many things have gone up. Gas gone up, road tax, the price of parts and the roads have gotten worse. Why are so many people stressing so much about this increase? Taxi men ain’t deserve nothing?” asked Andrew McCaskie, who has been in the taxi business for 32 years. Last Friday Deputy Prime and Minister of Transport, Works and Water Resources Santia Bradshaw announced during a press conference, the first rate increase in 15 years to take effect the next day.Bu
Chairman of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) Renee Coppin is disappointed her organisation did not get advance notice of the new taxi fares so that it could advise its local and overseas partners.While she acknowledged that the BHTA was aware of the rate increase proposal submitted by taxi operators, Coppin said she only learned it had been approved while listening to a press conference on Friday afternoon.At that media briefing, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport, Works and Water Resources Santia Bradshaw announced that effective Saturday, new rates would go into effect.Coppin told Barbados TODAY the BHTA was in complete agreement with the operators getting a rate hike as they had not received one in 15 years.