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An ambitious plan by a team of Bermuda businessmen and women to build a more-than-$275 million multisport training, arts and entertainment resort complex at Dockyard was named in the new National Tourism Plan as one of seven “core products” the Islan...
DATE: Jun 14, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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Neglected areas of town will not be left behind as tourism chiefs try to turn Hamilton into an iconic modern city, Mayor Graeme Outerbridge said yesterday.
Mr Outerbridge will push for North East Hamilton to feature prominently in a central destinati...
DATE: Jun 13, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda’s unpolished jewels are the key to turning tourism into a billion dollar industry, Tourism Board member Vince Ingham claimed last night.
Beauty spots such as St David’s already contain untapped resources which could attract vast numbers of vi...
DATE: Jun 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The Bermuda Department of Tourism hosted a travel dinner last month for a local marketing delegation at the Mandarin Oriental on Peachtree in Atlanta for the Buckhead Coalition.
Coalition President Sam Massell said: “Mutual promotion of the hospitali...
DATE: Jun 11, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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Four destination hubs on the Island, and a fifth offshore, will be set up as part of an effort to reinvent Bermuda’s tourism industry.
St George’s and St David’s, the City of Hamilton, South Shore and Dockyard will all receive special focus under the...
DATE: Jun 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
The Tourism Board Amendment Act 2012 was passed in the House of Assembly last night, but not before a lengthy debate with questioning by the Opposition on specific clauses.
Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert told his parliamentary colleagues that “every ...
DATE: Jun 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A burglar who broke into a hotel room and fought a tourist had his sentence more than doubled in a Supreme Court appeal.
Stanley Davis, 46, had been sentenced to 12-months imprisonment for the 2010 incident, but Chief Justice Ian Kawaley found that t...
DATE: Jun 08, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The National Tourism Plan will be tabled in the House of Assembly today, according to Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert.
The plan, which has been developed over the last five months, is said to lay the groundwork for Bermuda’s tourism strategy over the ...
DATE: Jun 08, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda came in for a bit of priceless free publicity as a tourism destination by way of The Bachelorette which aired on the US network ABC on Monday night.
Emily Maynard, ‘The Bachelorette’ treated eight men vying to become the ‘apple of her eye’ to...
DATE: Jun 06, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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Visitor arrivals were up by nearly nine percent for the first quarter of 2012, according to statistics released by the Department of Tourism last night.
A total of 34,571 people visited the Island from January to the end of March this year, up from 3...
DATE: Jun 04, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
