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Black-owned tourism businesses are in the spotlight as part of Black History Month.
The Bermuda Tourism Authority has promoted more than 20 businesses that signed up online as Black-owned.
The businesses and their creators are showcased on the BTA we...
DATE: Feb 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Payment from the owners of the Fairmont Southampton to cover redundancy payments to staff by Government have been handed over, the finance minister confirmed today.
Curtis Dickinson said the closure of the island’s biggest resort last October had cre...
DATE: Feb 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority said today it will allow flights of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to Bermuda with the removal of the airspace ban and it will also permit the operation of the aircraft type on the Bermuda Aircraft Registry.
The cha...
DATE: Feb 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
The owners of Bermuda’s biggest hotel has paid $11 million to the Government, which stepped in to cover redundancy payments to hundreds of staff after it shut last year, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Westend Properties, a subsidiary of US-based firm ...
DATE: Feb 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Flights between Bermuda and Canada will be grounded until at least the end of April, it was announced yesterday.
Air Canada and WestJet decided to halt flights to Mexico and the Caribbean region until April 30 in an effort to prevent the spread of mo...
DATE: Jan 30, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Another hotelier from the old Sonesta Beach resort has died just ten days after former manager David Boyd.
Charles Popper, who preceded Mr Boyd in the job, was 85.
Mr Popper, originally from the US, devoted much of his career to the Sonesta hotel ch...
DATE: Jan 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
Island talent will be developed “to the highest levels” the Bermuda Tourism Authority said after it announced an international search for a new chief executive officer.
A spokeswoman added that advancement programmes could mean that the organisation ...
DATE: Jan 29, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A worldwide search will be launched to find a new chief executive officer for the Bermuda Tourism Authority.
The announcement came 11 months after Kevin Dallas quit the post.
Glenn Jones, the organisation’s chief experience development officer, has b...
DATE: Jan 27, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
The Bermuda Tourism Authority has promoted human resources executive Tracy Berkeley to a new position of chief administrative officer.
Ms Berkeley joined the BTA one year ago as director of people.
A statement said the new role was part of a new op...
DATE: Jan 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Plans by a global media company to host dozens of entrepreneurs in Bermuda for a month have been dropped.
The residency for Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” nominees was scheduled for March and it was thought about 75 people would stay at the Hamilton...
DATE: Jan 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter