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NASSAU, BAHAMAS – One-hundred of the nation’s educators will spend a week in industry this summer learning about the range of careers and businesses in the tourism industry and how to better prepare young people for its many opportunities, as part of the Bahamas Hotel Association’s 7th Annual Summer Educator Internship Program, beginning June 28th, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education (MOE), the Ministry of Tourism and Aviation (MOTA) and COB’s, Culinary Hospitality  Management Institute (CHMI).
 
Public and private school teachers, principals, counselors, and subject specialist will align with local business partners to get a hands-on “snapshot” of the tourism industry and better understand how critical their roles are in preparing the future workforce to make a meaningful difference in our nation’s largest industry.
 
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Active season predicted and members are urged to review plans and policies, included here. As we have in previous years, BHA will coordinate private sector readiness and response efforts with…Continue readingHurricane Season Opens

Here is your first sneak peak of the Atlantis makeover and what guests can expect as the resort spends millions upgrading its suites to bring in more high rollers.
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With the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island experiencing an upswing in bookings, the company’s President and Managing Director George Markantonis said that unlike last year, the managers at the company will not be required to take a mandatory two-week unpaid vacation in 2010.
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After two tumultuous years amid the backdrop of a global economic meltdown, things are looking up for the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island, said Atlantis Managing Director George Markantonis over the weekend.

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ATLANTIS’S casino business is falling “15 per cent year-over-year every year” due to increased competition from many US states, its managing director underscoring the need for the Bahamas to reform its casino gaming laws, while group business for many Bahamian hotels is unlikely to return until “late 2011”.
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A FORMER Chamber president yesterday questioned whether the Government could “make the hard decisions” necessary to achieve its key objective of bringing the debt-to-GDP ratio down to 40 per cent in the medium term, and warned it was “in danger of killing the goose that laid the golden egg” through the sharp tax increases on the hotel and auto industry.
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THE BAHAMIAN hotel industry is facing a potential five-fold whammy, with the Government adding to increases in National Insurance Board (NIB) contribution rates, electricity costs and Out Island Promotion Board fees by increasing hotel room/guest taxes from 6 per cent to 10 per cent, along with an $5 increase in departure taxes.
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* Essential to Move Debt to GDP Out of Danger Zone

* Room Tax and Departure Tax to Increase

* Duty Reduced on Several Energy-Efficient Items

* Ministry of Tourism & Aviation Budget Down Over $2 Million

Delivering a somber message of fiscal constraint, reduced Government expenditures and increases in taxes, Prime Minister The Right Honourable Hubert Ingraham described a series of cost reduction and revenue raising measures today, most which are planned to begin to take effect in July once the new budget is in place.
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THE Bahamian hotel industry maintained its “stabilisation” trend during April, Tribune Business has been told, with average occupancies for Nassau/New Providence hotels up by 2.6 percentage points and average daily room rates (ADRs) some 1.1 per cent ahead of 2009 comparatives.
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