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A cruise ship home porting in Bermuda has sold most of its cabins for a series of summer voyages from the island. Although operating at half capacity, the Viking Cruises website showed that the eight trips by the Viking Orion have sold the majority...

Hoteliers warned last night the island’s strict coronavirus testing was impeding the revival of tourism. Stephen Todd, chief executive officer of the Bermuda Hotel Association (BHA), told The Royal Gazette: “One challenge we are still having is the c...

The number of flights to and from Bermuda is to increase by more than 20 per cent next month after the return of services to Miami and Philadelphia. The June flight schedule, released today by airport operators Skyport, showed a surge in the number o...

Insurance firms yesterday backed the finance minister’s move to allow people struggling to make ends meet to take an extra $6,000 from eligible pension plans. But the adminstrator of a hospitality industry pension scheme said said hotel workers who h...

The owners of Bermuda’s biggest hotel are expected to discuss finance arrangements for its refurbishment in the next month, the finance minister revealed yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said Gencom, the owners of the shuttered Fairmont Southampton, had s...

The first cruise ship to come to Bermuda in more than a year, anchored off Dockyard yesterday in what was hailed as a landmark moment in the island’s recovery from Covid-19. The Viking Orion, which arrived off St David’s on Friday, moved to Grassy Ba...

The St Regis Bermuda resort in St George’s has welcomed its first guests after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the weekend. David Burt, the Premier, said the opening of the luxury hotel on Saturday was “another major step forward in the start of the tou...

Bad smells have forced efforts to market a disused resort to be put on hold, MPs heard on Friday. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, told the House of Assembly that the decision to halt the bid to get the former 9 Beaches r...

Royal Caribbean has cancelled plans to homeport its Vision of the Seas ship in Bermuda for seven-night cruises to the Bahamas. But Lawrence Scott, the transport minister, said it was hoped that the cruise company would be able to resume normal schedu...

Tourism leaders reacted with disappointment yesterday after news broke that a Royal Caribbean cruise ship will not be based in Bermuda over the summer. Charles Jeffers II, the chief executive officer of the Bermuda Tourism Authority, said the announc...