Hotel says sewage plant meets standards amid residents’ concerns Shamar Blunt07/01/20260654 views Royalton Hotels and Resorts moved on Tuesday to allay public concern about the construction of a new sewage treatment plant for the new Royalton Vessence Barbados resort at Holetown, insisting… Read more
Traffic disruptions expected as Royalton resort utility works begin Shamar Blunt07/01/20260941 views Motorists travelling through the Jamestown area along Highway One should brace for nightly traffic delays over the next two weeks, engineers said on Tuesday, as they began underground utility installations… Read more
Airlines scramble to add Caribbean flights after airspace restrictions strand tens of thousands of travellers Barbados Today04/01/202601.7K views Airlines scrambled to add dozens of extra flights for tens of thousands of stranded travellers throughout the Eastern Caribbean on Sunday after the US Federal Aviation Administration’s flight restrictions in… Read more
Barbados already feeling fallout from Venezuela crisis – PM Shanna Moore03/01/202606.3K views Barbados is already experiencing tangible fallout from the escalating crisis in Venezuela, Prime Minister Mia Mottley said on Saturday, as flight disruptions, cruise challenges and concerns over stranded travellers emerged… Read more
Winter wonder: Hotels near full as visitor numbers surge Lourianne Graham31/12/20250338 views Barbados’ tourism is entering 2026 with record momentum, as hotels across the island report near-full occupancy and strong forward bookings for the winter season, signalling renewed confidence in one of… Read more
Holetown ‘blues’: Folk, tourists want say in west coast plans Shanna Moore24/12/202501.8K views Growing unease over the pace and direction of tourism development on the west coast reignited in Holetown on Tuesday, as residents, tourists and political figures pressed for greater public consultation… Read more
BTMI celebrating partners during Yuletide season Sheria Brathwaite17/12/2025022 views The Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) has made the decision to move Tourism Week from its traditional September staging to December, to align more closely with the start of the… Read more
Tourism sector attracting more young people Shamar Blunt12/12/2025087 views More must be done to tap into the vast employment potential within the tourism sector, especially with young people eager to get involved. That is the view of chief executive… Read more
Billion-dollar tourism investment surge in 2026 — BHTA Shamar Blunt11/12/20250436 views One of its biggest tourism investment booms in decades is expected to pump more than $2 billion (US$1 billion) into the industry next year, with a wave of new hotel… Read more
BHTA ramps up Spanish training to target Latin America, Spain Shamar Blunt11/12/2025059 views As Latin American visitor arrivals to Barbados continue to grow, the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) said Wednesday it is stepping up efforts to equip hospitality workers with Spanish-language… Read more