HAMILTON, Bermuda — The CEO of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), Alec Sanguinetti said on Wednesday that the industry is having its worse period in its history due to the ongoing global financial crisis and government taxation policies.
“The industry I would say is threatened and unfortunately because of the contracting of government revenue because of the downturn in tourism (and) tourism has become the bull’s-eye for taxation,” Sanguinetti told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC)
“We have seen an increase in taxes on room nights; we have seen an increase on air tickets; we now have one or two governments who are looking at putting taxes on service charges. We need to get some relief,” he said.
Sanguinetti said that there was need now for greater collaboration between the regional private and public sectors.
“But we need to re-tool our industry. There are things that are within our control to fix, which we need to do and the longer those policy issues are ignored the more serious it will be, not only for the hotel industry, but for the entire industry,” he said.
He said that the industry is “half dead already,” adding there is not much more to kill.
but it not decent beach hotel, de new one on de rosalie river gunna kill tourist if dey swim de ocean der, would be better at old cast aways or coconut beach possie,i suggest people go see how busy dem hotel all inclusive are in lucia or antigua,my brother works one in lucia , boy dat place makin de money, we havin nutin like that here that is what we need
Finally an article where someone tells the truth.
lets build more hotels
The tourism industry on a downturn and to me is now i seeing more hotels being built around