EXACTLY what I have been very active in saying for the past few years straight up to recently!!! - on my personal page on facebook, in the groups on facebook and to people off of facebook - some of whom are in authority. The $3.5 billion Baha Mar project’s Grand Opening, while pushed back to late Spring, remains on the horizon, and the Bahamas needs to both attract increased stopover visitors and an extra 400,000 airline seats per annum to fill this property. Crime warnings undermine achieving such an objective, and indicate the Bahamas has more than just energy and fiscal crises to solve. Mr Sands yesterday told Tribune Business that the upgraded Canadian travel warning merely “reinforces” the industry’s fears and the “concerns expressed to the Government”. Reiterating that resolving the crime problem was critical to the “sustainable growth of tourism going forward”, Mr Sands pointed to Canada’s importance as not just a source of stopover visitors, but foreign direct investment (FDI) and second home owners END tribune242/news/2014/sep/19/canadas-crime-warning-reinforces-tourism-fears/?news
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 03:35:35 +0000