{"id":245202,"date":"2004-03-29T12:40:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-29T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/03\/hotel-and-restaurant-expo-set-for-april-1st"},"modified":"2004-03-29T12:40:17","modified_gmt":"2004-03-29T17:40:17","slug":"hotel-and-restaurant-expo-set-for-april-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/03\/hotel-and-restaurant-expo-set-for-april-1st","title":{"rendered":"Hotel and Restaurant Expo Set for April 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 50 exhibitors will present an array of products and services directed at all aspects of hotel and restaurant operations at the Bahamas Hotel Association&#8217;s (BHA) Trade Show and Expo set for Thursday, April 1st at the Wyndham Nassau Resort Convention Centre. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The expo will feature new products and services; ice sculpting, cooking and cake decorating demonstrations; rum and wine tasting demonstrations; and special workshops for attractions and excursion operators, food handlers, and purchasing and inventory control personnel.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>&#8220;The BHA has managed to put together a trade show and expo this year which we believe will prove invaluable in a number of ways to management and key staff from hotels, restaurants and our allied members&#8221; stated BHA&#8217;s President Jeremy MacVean.  &#8220;We urge industry participation in the exhibition and workshops which were designed with industry input in order to ensure the event meets their needs&#8221; he added.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>A workshop, conducted by the Ministry of Health and Berachial Medical Clinic and Laboratory will focus on a New Certification Process for Food Handlers scheduled to be put in place shortly which will change the present system. A second workshop on New Inventory Control Software will be conducted by Bahamas Business Solutions and aimed at reducing costs and improving efficiency.  A roundtable session will be held by Expedia.com, providing a general overview on The Bahamas official search engine and aimed specifically at how attraction and excursion operators can tap into this explosive booking tool.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Throughout the afternoon there will be cooking, wine tasting, ice sculpting and cake decorating demonstrations, conducted by exhibitors, The Bahamas Culinary Association, the College of the Bahamas School of Hospitality &#038; Tourism Studies, and Bristol Wines and Spirits.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The event will be held on Thursday, April 1st from 12 noon to 6:00 p.m. at the Wyndham Nassau Resort Convention Centre. There will be an official opening at 12:30, with a reception.  The event is open to all owners, managers and employees of hotels, restaurants and attractions and excursions.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event will be held on Thursday, April 1st from 12 noon to 6:00 p.m. at the Wyndham Nassau Resort Convention Centre.<\/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-245202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245202","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=245202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}