{"id":247843,"date":"2005-09-29T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/09\/recognizing-excellence-in-bahamas-tourism"},"modified":"2005-09-29T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T16:27:00","slug":"recognizing-excellence-in-bahamas-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/09\/recognizing-excellence-in-bahamas-tourism","title":{"rendered":"Recognizing Excellence in Bahamas Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Each year, the Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) and the Ministry of Tourism recognize a number of individuals in the industry for outstanding achievements. These individuals are named as those representatives who best exemplify the quality of service and spirit of the Bahamian hospitality in their respective positions and fields.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The BHA Cacique Awards programme was initiated in 1987 on the occasion of the celebration of the 35th Anniversary of the Bahamas Hotel Association. \uffa0In 1995 the Ministry of Tourism expanded upon the BHA Cacique programme and established the annual Cacique Awards to honour individuals in a range of categories outside of the hotel industry. \uffa0<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>For the past six years the BHA&#8217;s Hotelier, Manager, Chef, Hotel Sales Executive, Supervisor and Employee of the Year have been honored at this ceremony along with other Cacique Award winners. \uffa0The awards ceremony is schedule to take place at the conclusion of National Tourism Conference festivities on Friday evening, January 13th at the Wyndham in Nassau. \uffa0<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The BHA will make its recognition presentations of finalists at its annual recognition luncheon on December 2, 2005 at Wyndham Nassau Resort. Cacique Award nominees will be selected from the BHA award recipients. \uffa0While the BHA nominess must be nominated by a hotelier, many of our Allied Members work closely with the hotels and may wish to recommend an individual for consideration by a manager or superviser. \uffa0<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The Ministry of Tourism is accepting nominations for the General Awards Categories for: \uffa0Nature Tourism, Handicraft, Creative Arts, Transportation, Human Resources Development, Sports, Leisure and Events. Nominations for International Awards categories are: \uffa0International Writer, International Photographer Video\/Film, Tour Operator, Travel Agent, Airline, Cruise line. Members are encouraged to submit nominations. \uffa0These nominations can be made through <http:\/\/www.caciqueawards.com\/> www.caciqueawards.com. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>We encourage your participation in this prestigous program. \uffa0Help us maintain this high tradition and recognize those individuals with the qualities which all of us should wish to aspire. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHA Cacique Awards and Ministry of Tourism Cacique Awards nominations are open.<\/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-247843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247843","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=247843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}