There needs to be much stronger marketing to encourage more tourists to make overnight visits to the Bahama according to hotel union chief Pat Bain.<\/P><\/p>\n
Mr. Bain, president of the bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union, said that if this does not take place, the country can expect to lose its market share in stay-over visitors.<\/P><\/p>\n
In a statement released yesterday, Mr. Bain said that while the country has been rated the number one vacation spot for stay-over and cruise ship arrivals among English speaking Caribbean countries, stopover arrivals have not increased in the past four years.<\/P><\/p>\n
He said hotels are feeling the financial implications of this fact.<\/P><\/p>\n
Mr. Bain said that while cruise shiop passenger numbers can be impressively large, cruise visitors are not known to be big spenders.<\/P><\/p>\n
According to the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO), the Bahamas hosted 826,500 stopover visitors and 1,728,895 cruise ship passengers from January to June this year. However, the numbers indicate a 2.5 per cent drop in stopover visitors and a 5.7 per cent drop in cruise ship passengers compared to the same period last year.<\/P><\/p>\n
Source: The Tribune<\/SMALL><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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