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Bermuda may be closed to visitors, but the Bermuda Tourism Authority has already begun to highlight the island as a post-Covid destination. A BTA spokeswoman said the body has already worked with lifestyle and travel magazines, newspapers and televis...

The Premier complained last night that negotiations with unions and employers’ associations had got into the public domain. An angry David Burt lamented the release of sensitive negotiations with unions being shared with the public, as he revealed th...

Some hotels will shut for good if the Government fails to give the industry a break on employment overheads, industry leaders have warned the Premier. The Bermuda Hotel Association asked for an extension of the 12-week unemployment benefits programme...

A hotel restaurant has relaunched its kerbside pick-up service with the help of a new website. Huckleberry Restaurant and Rosedon Hotel opened their new web-enabled storefront at the weekend after six weeks of development. The restaurant will also la...

Flights between Bermuda and five cities are expected to be available when the airport reopens to commercial flights, the Minister of Tourism and Transport said yesterday. However, Zane DeSilva — who did not give a timetable for flight resumption — wa...

The Swizzle South Shore, which shuttered yesterday, was a casualty of the economic slump left by Covid-19, business owner Jay Correia said. It opened in 2006 on South Road, Warwick, as an offshoot of the popular Swizzle Inn near Bailey’s Bay in Hamil...

Bermuda may have to rethink its concentration on New York for tourism because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the island’s acting tourism chief has warned. Glenn Jones, the interim chief executive of the Bermuda Tourism Authority, said the organisation mi...

Restaurants and the hospitality sector face a bleak future after a long-established bar announced it was to shut up shop because of the coronavirus crisis, owners warned yesterday. Philip Barnett, of the Island Restaurant Group, said: “Until we’re ab...

Government will take a “disciplined approach” to reopen the island’s borders, the Premier said. David Burt said the reopening of the airport was still some time away, but that Government would move carefully. He said on Wednesday: “I think it’s still...

Bermuda’s tourism industry has already been dealt a $95 million blow by Covid-19. Figures released by the Bermuda Tourism Authority yesterday show visitor air arrivals fell by 38 per cent in the first quarter while cruise ship arrivals plummeted by 4...

The probable cancellation of the gay Pride march this year has given a financial boost to laid-off hotel staff. The organisers of the Pride event have decided to donate $5,000 to help support cash-strapped workers in the sector — and their move spark...

A delivery app has temporarily halted food service to make improvements. Sargasso Sea announced in a notice to customers that it would stop restaurant deliveries from 6pm today until Tuesday The notice said the change would allow for “merchant acclim...