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Government has missed its self-imposed deadline to establish a Tourism Authority which it maintains is critical to rescuing the troubled industry.
But Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell says much progress has been made and he intends to table legislati...
DATE: Jun 12, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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Tourism chiefs are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past unless they change their mindsets and place the industry on a new footing, according to critics.
Independent MP Terry Lister and former Shadow Tourism Minister Kim Swan spoke out after Gove...
DATE: Jun 12, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Visitor arrivals for the first three months of 2013 were down almost four percent on the year before, according to the latest statistics.
At a press conference yesterday Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell revealed that Bermuda played host to 33,256 to...
DATE: Jun 11, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Norwegian Breakaway would happily visit Bermuda “forever” — if the Island would allow its on-board casino to run while the ship is in port.
As it is, however, Norwegian Cruise Line CEO Kevin Sheehan said Bermuda has thus far received “great revie...
DATE: Jun 07, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Millions of television viewers in the US will be getting a bird’s-eye view of several Bermuda beauty spots this summer when live shots of the Island are broadcast during a popular morning programme.
The scheme was set up by the Bermuda Broadcasting C...
DATE: Jun 06, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Cruise ship passengers who visited Bermuda last week were keen to shout about the Island’s immense beauty from the rooftops — but their handwritten postcards almost never made it to their family and friends.
A batch of 68 stamped cards, addressed to ...
DATE: Jun 05, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A cruise ship scheduled to arrive in Bermuda this week has been damaged after a fire broke out on one of its decks early yesterday morning.
Royal Caribbean’s Grandeur of the Seas was en route to CocoCay, Bahamas, from Baltimore, Maryland when the bla...
DATE: May 28, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Details of a major facelift for Bermuda’s oldest hotel have been unveiled by the new owners of the Fairmont Hamilton Princess.
And the Green family has also announced that it will be pumping more funds into the revamp than first planned, increasing i...
DATE: May 22, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Residents randomly polled on whether Bermuda should relax it’s liquor licensing laws, or sell alcohol in grocery stores and other outlets every day including Sundays, unanimously answered ‘yes’.
Irie FM executive Ben Fairn said: “I think we need to l...
DATE: May 20, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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The need to create new tourism products for Bermuda dominated discussion in the House of Assembly on Friday night.
One member sounded a clear warning to the new One Bermuda Alliance Government that without the creation of jobs “everything will come t...
DATE: May 20, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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