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Bermuda is to take part in a around-the-world yacht race — as a port of call and as team partner for the just-named clipper GoToBermuda.
Kevin Dallas, the Bermuda Tourism Authority CEO, christened the vessel yesterday at St Katharine Docks in London ...
DATE: Aug 29, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A new director of sales and business development has been hired at The Bermuda Tourism Authority. Ishmael Kolthoff, a veteran of the meeting, conference and incentive market, will work for the BTA to create group programmes and events.
Mr Kolthoff sa...
DATE: Aug 28, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A US-based firm of consultants has been signed up to help boost air arrivals, the head of the Bermuda Tourism Authority revealed yesterday.
Kevin Dallas, the chief executive of the BTA, said the organisation and the Bermuda Airport Authority had join...
DATE: Aug 16, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Visitors to St George’s can meet characters from Bermuda’s 1775 Gunpowder Plot over the next few weeks.
Several dozen men broke into an unguarded ammunition magazine above Tobacco Bay, St George’s, on August 14, 1775 and stole more than 100 casks of ...
DATE: Aug 15, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Air visitor arrivals dropped by 5 per cent year-on-year in the first half of 2019, with the sharpest falls in the number of younger visitors and arrivals from New York, the tourism authority said yesterday.
However, the air arrivals spent 7 per cent ...
DATE: Aug 13, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Tourists and residents have called for public toilets at three South Shore beaches to be cleaned up.
The bathrooms at Jobson’s Cove, Chaplin Bay and Elbow Beach all came in for criticism from beachgoers when The Royal Gazette toured South Shore beach...
DATE: Aug 13, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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A drop in the number of younger visitors hit leisure air arrivals between April and June, the Bermuda Tourism Authority said yesterday.
The largest decline in visitors was in the 25 to 34 age bracket, which saw a 13.5 per cent decline over the period...
DATE: Aug 13, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A trio of American couples who met on honeymoon in Bermuda 50 years ago have returned to the island to celebrate their golden anniversaries.
Marie and Howard Dupee, Camille and Bill Duncan, and Karen and Bob Netherton were all married in the United S...
DATE: Aug 13, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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The Bermuda Tourism Authority is backing six local organisations and entrepreneurs to provide cultural experiences for visitors to the island.
Glenn Jones, the BTA’s chief experience development officer, said PinkSand Entertainment, Eettafel, the Urb...
DATE: Aug 12, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Bermudian tennis club was featured in an upscale lifestyle magazine as the backdrop for their photoshoot on autumn fashion.
The Coral Beach & Tennis Club appeared in Town & Country magazine as the backdrop for a photo spread on the season’s “most u...
DATE: Aug 08, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Tourism
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