Category: BHA News

Visitor air arrivals throughout The Bahamas declined by 10 percent during the normally busy month of December, even as total visitors to the country improved by 5 percent.
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A retirement research team has ranked Exuma’s February Point Resort Estates as the best retirement community in The Bahamas – something hotel executives are not that surprised over given the recent 100 percent jump in sales activity.
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Baha Mar’s $2.6 billion Cable Beach redevelopment project was yesterday said to be “back on track” and targeting an early second quarter 2010 agreement close with its Chinese partners, with completion of the project financing now the major focus.
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The Out Islands Promotion Board is readying to up its marketing ante to Bahamians in an attempt to get locals to make up hotel occupancy in the off season by 20 percent.
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The Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD) has received Project Finance Magazine’s Latin America Project Bond Deal of the Year award for 2009, based on it securing the $265 million needed to finance the first phase of the Lynden Pindling International Airport’s (LPIA) redevelopment.
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The Government is launching a free airfare promotion to the Family Islands through private airlines in order to increase travel outside Nassau/Paradise Island, and possibly boost domestic tourism, the Minister of Tourism and Aviation said yesterday.
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The Bahamas saw air arrivals increase by 3 per cent year-over-year in the last four months of 2009, indicating a recovery in the high-spending stopover market may be starting, although the figures were up against weak 2008 comparatives.
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Bahamian-owned private airlines yesterday responded to news of the Government’s plan to offer free airfare to the Family Islands through their services by saying they “know nothing about the deal”.
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The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Education Foundation is Accepting Scholarship Applications for Students, Employees and Educators for their 2010 Awards.  

Thanks to BHA Member support we presently have two Bahamians attending Johnson and Wales and FIU under this scholarship program. 

Details for securing applications and criteria can be found at…

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Bahamasair is hoping it will be able to implement a strategic plan for its “renaissance” by end-June 2010, its chairman told Tribune Business yesterday, with one component involving an increase in the percentage of tourist passengers it carried from 5/10 per cent to 30 per cent.
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