The National Hotels and Restaurants Association (ASONAHORES) warned that the 10 percent tax hike levied on the price of imports and decreed by the government with February 18 as the date to go into effect, punishes the leisure industry by slashing its earnings.
The Caribbean Association for Sustainable Tourism (CAST) is a linkage with the private sector that provides sustainable practices and techniques to hotel owners and operators dealing with the challenges the Caribbean is poised to cope with.
The Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) and the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) met in Hamilton, Bermudas, to ink a three-year-term exchange agreement to foster the industry’s development and put together a joint policymaking committee dealing with tourism in the Caribbean Basin.
The signing of the agreement took place within the framework of the 7th Conference on Hotel Investment and Caribbean Tourism that came to a close this weekend in Hamilton, the Bermudan capital.
"In the light of the current troubled times, we´re more committed than ever before to join hands with the private sector," said Berthia Parle, first deputy president of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) and chairwoman of the organization´s Defense Committee.
The Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) is calling its members to implement policies that could protect those visitors whose travel packages have been canceled or they are stranded in the Caribbean as a result of the U.S. war against Iraq.
The Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) is cranking up a number of preventive actions in favor of hotels in the Caribbean in light of conflict in the Middle East and its impact on the tourist industry. “Out of the experience of the Gulf War and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a downturn in demand is to be expected,” said Dominican hotelier and CHA chairman Simon B. Suarez.