{"id":244184,"date":"2003-10-16T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T14:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/10\/antigua-barbuda-expresses-opposition-to-cruise-industry-head-tax"},"modified":"2003-10-16T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2003-10-16T14:30:22","slug":"antigua-barbuda-expresses-opposition-to-cruise-industry-head-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2003\/10\/antigua-barbuda-expresses-opposition-to-cruise-industry-head-tax","title":{"rendered":"Antigua &#038; Barbuda Expresses Opposition To Cruise Industry Head Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adding to the steadily growing chorus of dissent against the Caribbean Tourism Organisation&#8217;s proposal for a $20 per passenger head tax on the cruise ship sector, the Barbados Daily Nation reported earlier this week that the government of Antigua was unwilling to support such a measure.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Speaking to Business Authority recently, Antiguan Minster of Tourism Molwyn Joseph indicated that the tax was likely to have a detrimental effect on the nation&#8217;s tourist industry. &#8220;We have looked at the situation and we are not convinced that the US$20 levy is in the best interest of Antigua and Barbuda at this time,&#8221; said Joseph.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Mr Joseph was also in attendance at the recent FCSS (Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association) tenth annual conference where organisation chairman Micky Arison was harshly critical of the proposed head tax saying the region&#8217;s governments should be doing the &#8220;exact opposite&#8221; if they want to encourage tourism.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>According to FCCA President Michelle Paige, Prime Minister Douglas of St. Kitts and Minister Bush from the Cayman Islands have also expressed opposition to the tax.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><B>By Amanda Banks, Tax-News.com<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to Business Authority recently, Antiguan Minster of Tourism Molwyn Joseph indicated that the tax was likely to have a detrimental effect on the nation&#8217;s tourist industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}