BHTA Hoping to Boost Airlift  

 

• Chairman of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) Renee Coppin is pinning hopes for improvement in low hotel occupancy levels on Barbados’ ability to attract more airlifts into the island.
• Coppin noted that relative to 2019, the island had experienced a near 60% decrease in airlift for the current summer period, with the resulting decline in tourism arrivals and hotel occupancy.
• Consequently, the organization is of the view that there must be a laser-focused approach to the question of airlift supply for the island, given that the numbers point to being 58.3% down on 2019 levels for the comparable period of June to October 2022. According to Coppin for the summer period airlift is down by almost 60%.
• This was a “particularly critical” issue the BHTA chairman said, “given that many of our sister destinations across the region are not reporting similar levels of decline.

(Source: Nation News)