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Horseshoe Bay is a major hit on social-media site Instagram after more than 90,000 pictures of the beach were shared. TravelSupermarket said the South Shore, Southampton, beach was the third most shared beach in the world, behind Whitehaven Beach in ...

A video game tournament could be held in Bermuda, the Minister of National Security said yesterday. Wayne Caines posted on Facebook that he wanted to talk to local gamers. He wrote: “I have recently been approached by a company who wants to partner w...

A 4.5 per cent charge on guests at Airbnb-style holiday rental properties will level the playing field for Bermuda’s hotel industry, the Bermuda Hotel Association said yesterday. Vacation rental property owners said they did not oppose the new levy b...

A 4.5 per cent fee on guests using Airbnb-style holiday rental properties could raise up to $750,000 this financial year, MPs heard on Friday. Jamahl Simmons, the Minister of Economic Development and Tourism, told MPs the new levy would be given to t...

Proposed legislation to tax and regulate people who rent their homes to visitors was welcomed yesterday by the Bermuda Tourism Authority. But Michael Cranfield, of Vacation Rentals Bermuda, said the Vacation Rentals Bill 2018 is “alarming” to some ow...

Sailor Mustafa Ingham met with David Burt, the Premier, at the Cabinet Office. Ingham signed a sponsorship deal with the Bermuda Tourism Authority this week, after qualifying as a Volvo Ocean Race sailor. Mr Burt said: “It was great to meet this you...

A tourist couple who thanked people in Bermuda for helping them to search for their lost passports have found their travel documents. Corinne and Steve White said the passports had been found in a bag after they had slipped down a tear in the lining....

Colin Selley, a former Director of Tourism during the island’s golden years of the industry, has died. He was 90. Mr Selley was also a keen tennis player, umpire and founding president of the Bermuda Lawn Tennis Association. He championed Bermuda a...

The lack of a major event like 2017’s America’s Cup will affect tourism figures in the next quarter. Kevin Dallas, chief executive of the Bermuda Tourism Authority, said the tourism boost created by the event will be hard to replicate, but the indust...

The Bermuda Tourism Authority has teamed up with overseas travel organisations to fund research into the African-American market. The study, set up by Mandala Research, will be jointly funded by the BTA, NYC & Company, Visit Baltimore, Virginia Touri...