Month: October 2019

The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism encourages the Bahamian public to submit their nominations for the 18th Cacique Awards beginning Monday October 28, until January 31, 2020.

Nassau, Bahamas – The Ministry of Tourism and the Bahamas Hotel Association held the first annual Cacique Awards in 1996. At this juncture, the long-standing tourism partners joined their respective awards – the National Tourism Achievement Awards and the Hotel Industry Awards – to celebrate the finest in industry.

The 18th Cacique Awards, which celebrates the brightest and the best in the country’s hospitality industry, will be held at the Baha Mar Resort Convention Centre on May 23, 2020, under the theme, “Still Rockin”.

Ministry of Tourism’s Permanent Secretary, Charles Albury, promises that this Cacique Awards will be an exciting celebration of Bahamians and encourages persons to nominate individuals in the industry.

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CHTA renews commitment to bring premier Caribbean travel and tourism marketing event to Baha Mar, Bahamas in 2020

MIAMI – Citing the new tourism offerings in The Bahamas and throughout the Caribbean and the opportunity to showcase the nation of islands to the travel world following Hurricane Dorian, the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) reaffirmed that all systems are go to bring the region’s largest and longest-standing tourism marketing event to The Bahamas January 21 to 23, 2020.

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The Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA); alongside industry partners, Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board (NPIPB), The Bahama Out Islands Promotion Board (BOIPB); The Grand Bahama Island Tourism Board (GBITB) and The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism (BMOT) met recently at the British Colonial Hilton Nassau, to discuss the state of the industry throughout the archipelago and to share individual and collective marketing strategies being deployed to ensure global markets understand the majority of islands in The Bahamas are open for business.

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Baha Mar is to a host major regional tourism event in January in conjunction with the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA).

The 38th Caribbean Travel Marketplace (CTM) will involve hotel and destination representatives as well as other tourism providers, wholesalers and tour operators, online travel agencies and media representatives over two days.

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Tourism stakeholders have agreed to align their efforts to maintain the country’s value for money proposition in order to steer The Bahamas’ tourism sector back to its robust, pre-Dorian numbers.

A press statement from the Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) explained that those stakeholders also accepted to speak with one voice in their tourism messaging and marketing.

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Carlton Russell will be a panellist on The Financial Voice, discussing “Tourism and Jobs: A Better Future For All” Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 Watch this video to get the details:

The Bahamas must “tactfully and strategically” promote it is open for business ahead of the all-important winter tourism season’s November start, a top hotelier says.

Robert Sands, Baha Mar’s senior vice-president of government and external affairs, backed the strategy set by Dionisio D’Aguilar, minister of tourism and aviation, and his ministry in a bid to “arrest the double digit booking fall” caused by Hurricane Dorian’s fall-out.

Mr Sands told Tribune Business: “The strategy is certainly the right one; the best way to make reservations and support touristic properties in the islands that have not have been affected by Dorian. Principally the message is that The Bahamas is an archipelagic country with many islands from north to south, and 14 other main islands are still available.

…Continue readingTact And Strategy Needed Over Tourism Promotion

Getting people back to fled Grand Bahama and the Abacos after Hurricane Dorian back to work is a monumental challenge.

But cheers to the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) and the Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) which, in tandem with public and private sector tourism partners in the region and South Florida, launched “Tourism Jobs for Bahamians” to secure temporary employment for workers displaced by Hurricane Dorian.

The storm blew more than 2,500 hospitality professionals out of work on Grand Bahama and the Abacos, eliminating jobs that were supporting more than 10,000 family members in these islands, according to the CHTA.

…Continue readingThe push for post-Dorian employment opportunities