Delegation On Business Development Trip In China

Business Bermuda has organized a business development and relationship building marketing trip in Shanghai and Beijing, China from April 14 through April 20, 2012. Led by Cheryl Packwood, CEO of Business Bermuda and joined by Wayne Furbert, Minister of Business Development and Tourism, Travis Gilbert, Director of Business Development for the Ministry of Business Development [...]

SKAL Travel/Tourism Congress Deemed A Success

The praises of Bermuda are being sung in various cities across Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States. Delegates and guests from those countries have now returned home following a congress in Bermuda. From all reports these visitors were so impressed with all that Bermuda has to offer that they look forward to return [...]

Minister Thanks New York TV Weatherman

Emmy award winning Irv Gikofsky — also known as Mr. G, the “PIX News at Ten” weather expert — has been delivering forecasts on New York television for almost 30 years, and recently made his way to Bermuda for a vacation. At the invite of the Bermuda Department of Tourism [BDOT], Mr. G recently spent [...]

Minister: Visitor Stay Extended To 90 Days

The initial visitor stay will be extended from 21 days to 90 days with effect from 1st May 2012, Minister of National Security Wayne Perinchief said this morning [Apr.13] in the House of Assembly. The current policy for visitors to our shores is to permit an initial stay of 21 days. For longer stays, application [...]

CBS Radio To Broadcast From Bermuda

As part of an ongoing effort between the Bermuda Department of Tourism [BDOT] and CBS Radio to drive business from Bermuda’s core US markets, two of the network’s top broadcasters from the Washington, DC and Baltimore area will broadcast live from the island this week and share their experiences with hundreds of thousands of listeners. [...]

Rutgers Hosts Educational Bermuda Cruise

Alumni of New Jersey’s Rutgers University, their families and friends will be able to mix learning with pleasure – considered by many one in the same – when they register for “Relax and Learn,” the inaugural seven-day cruise to Bermuda hosted by the Rutgers Division of Continuing Studies and the Rutgers University Alumni Association. Celebrity [...]

Travel Writer: Step Back In Time In St. George’s

St. George not only offers visitors the visual delights of signature Bermuda pastel homes but also an opportunity to step back in time to absorb the island’s long and alluring history, a top travel blogger says today [Apr. 2]. Susan Fogwell – whose travel articles have been published in “The Los Angeles Times”, “Orlando Sentinel” and USAToday.com [...]

French Row Recalls Bermuda Photo Debacle

France has taken a page out of Bermuda’s old tourism marketing book — and not everyone is impressed with the results. A recent tourism promotion designed to lure British vacationers to France this summer hit a major snag when a scene of a family jogging along an idyllic, boulder-fringed beach turned out to be taken [...]

Minister Updates On St. Regis Hotel Plans

Minister of Business Development and Tourism Wayne Furbert said his Ministry had made “considerable progress in bringing construction of a new St. Regis Hotel for Bermuda closer to being realised.” Minister Furbert said, “We have put the hotel developers together with the Mayor and Corporation of Hamilton and have urged them to find common ground [...]

UBP On Tourism Board: “Half Baked Solution”

Government’s announcement about a new Tourism Board “appears a half-baked solution for Tourism,” said UBP MP Kim Swan. “The announcement by the Minister of Tourism that government is prepared to scrap the Tourism Board and introduce a statutory body appointed by the Minister with authority appears a step in the right direction,” said Mr Swan. [...]

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