47 results returned for search: "bermuda championship AND " author Owain Johnston-Barnes
Charles Jeffers II, CEO of the Bermuda Tourism Authority, has left the BTA after just over a year in the post, it was announced yesterday.
A statement from a BTA spokeswoman said that Tracy Berkeley, the body’s chief administration officer, has been ...
DATE: Jun 11, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A plan by a global media company to bring dozens of young entrepreneurs to Bermuda is expected to go ahead this year after it was scrapped in 2021.
A notice published in the Official Gazette
said the Bermuda Tourism Authority had signed a $27...
DATE: Jan 06, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda’s first Olympic gold medal winner said it felt “surreal and special” to be made a Dame in the latest New Year’s Honours.
Flora Duffy, OBE, said she was surprised to be told that she would be recognised as Dame Commander of the British Empire ...
DATE: Jan 03, 2022
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CATEGORY:
General
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Tourism Authority will put out a request for proposal to rebrand the island’s tourism industry, according to a report by the Public Accounts Committee.
The report, tabled in the House of Assembly, said it was hoped that a Bermuda firm wou...
DATE: Oct 06, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Competitors are set to return to the beach next month as the Bermuda Sandcastle Competition returns.
Hannah Emmerson, the event organiser, said the Horseshoe Bay competition was given the green light to go ahead on September 4, with appropriate Covid...
DATE: Aug 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Tourism figures are moving in the right direction despite the massive damage inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the head of the Bermuda Tourism Authority said today.
Charles Jeffers II, the BTA CEO, said that a global surge in Covid-19 cases had cre...
DATE: Aug 12, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
American Airlines is to ground its service between Miami and Bermuda, it has been revealed.
The airline will instead fly to the island from Charlotte, North Carolina.
Glenn Jones, the interim CEO of the Bermuda Tourism Authority, said the move from ...
DATE: Feb 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Greg Maybury, the general manager of the Port Royal and Ocean View golf courses, has died.
Mr Maybury was 65.
Steven Lambert, the assistant manager at the Port Royal, said: “For many of us Mr Maybury was more than our boss, he was also a mentor and a...
DATE: Jan 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda’s tourism industry is on a “slow and gradual” path to recovery, according to the head of the Bermuda Tourism Authority.
Glenn Jones, the interim CEO of the BTA, told the World Tourism Network in an online presentation last Saturday that the b...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A “Reclaim Summer” week on the water is to be held to boost visitor numbers and resident spending in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bermuda Tourism Authority said yesterday.
Glenn Jones, the interim chief executive of the BTA, said the Bermud...
DATE: Oct 16, 2020
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes