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August is well known in the media for being “silly season”, when stories that would usually disappear without trace get unwarranted attention and jump up news lists as many newsmakers take well earned vacations. That may explain why Bermuda’s plans t...

Bermuda’s new advertising campaign has captured the attention of the New York Times. The paper highlighted the recently-launched So Much More campaign in an article by Stuart Elliott. Dennis Franczak chief executive of advertising agency Fuseideas d...

Some people can’t imagine holding down a job for four years, let alone 40. So imagine this reporter’s surprise when I met a handful of Fairmont Southampton employees who had reached that milestone and were excited to keep going. Hospitality workers...

The second quarter tourism arrivals released on Friday will have been met with some disappointment, and rightly so. The slight improvement in arrivals in the first quarter, coupled with the biennial Newport Bermuda Race, gave rise to hopes that ther...

Online criticism of Government is damaging the Island according to Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert. Mr Furbert made the claim on the social media site Facebook yesterday morning. “There are those who write via RG, Bernews mainly for political reasons...

A Michael Jackson impersonator was detained by Immigration after landing in Bermuda without a work permit but released after Tourism Minister Wayne Furbert intervened. The entertainer, called MJX, from New Jersey, was hired by the organisers of a lar...

Visitor arrivals fell by one percent for the second quarter of 2012, after a large dip in convention business tourists. About 240,000 visitors came to Bermuda in April, May and June this year, down from 243,000 in the corresponding period of 2011. An...

The new Rubis gas station on South Shore, Warwick officially opened yesterday, with a food concession operated by MEF Ltd. Gold Coast Express serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and operates whenever the gas station is open, from around 6.30am to at l...

The owners of O-Bar have put the Bermudiana Road coffee and cocktail bar up for sale. Associated Cuisine has listed the bar with Firm Advisory, a business brokerage joint venture with Bermuda Realty. The bar, formerly known as Opus, was at one time p...

The Bermuda Department of Tourism recently unveiled their latest efforts in attracting visitors to the Island with a $4.8 million advertising campaign. Only time will tell whether the ads have been effective with overseas residents. In the meantime, ...

August 18, 2012 Dear Sir, As a regular visitor to Bermuda and a US ad agency exec for over 20 years, I think the new tourism campaign is utterly useless. I can’t imagine anyone choosing to visit Bermuda as a result of seeing these ads. By contrast, w...