Comments on: 2011/12 Budget: Business & Tourism

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:14:22 +0000

I spent 18 years on the hospitality industry front line. One on one conversations with visitors every day. My service meant that I had them for a minimum of 3 hours. We talked about everything. Their likes/dislikes about Bermuda, local politics, our tax system, schools, grocery prices, everything.

Our biggest asset is our location. Biggest grumble is price of airfare & price off rooms. Airfare many got around by flying on miles obtained from business travel. The hotel rates were something else. It is not like most of my clients could not afford the hotel rates it is just that too many are charging a 5 star rate for 3 star accomodation. Too often they felt that they were not getting value for money.

They liked the natural beauty. Some of the repeat people complained about how Horsehoe Bay has been spoiled with all the development & cruise crowds. Too often I got grumbles about treatment at immigration & customs. I remember one saying that they got more respectful treatment entering the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.

Much has to change if tourism is to become even a shadow of itself begining with out attitude towards work & productivity.

By: enough

enough — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:31:48 +0000

Bottom line, I don’t care what she said or the fact that she bumbled over a great portion of that speech…she’s a hottie.

As for tourism….market wherever you like, do as you will, so long as Bermuda is so expensive and the 1980′s kitch at the Princess hotels is costing $450/night, it’s only ever going downwards.

Resorts at many islands and other places far cheaper to get to have the entertainment, the food and the weather.

I’m sure many would love to come here for the quaintness, the easy flight and the beaches but the sun’s the sun and a beach is a beach when all said and done. Am I really gonna pay double to come here?

Fix that and then we can talk.

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:25:18 +0000

But where’s the money for throwing out baseballs at opening games? Surely that thrill is not over as well. Is anything left from what the great EB once created? Is he really to be vilified? Will any one in the PLP even pretend that it is the one and same party as to what went before, or are we now in a Mexican reality of an ongoing and ever changing one party system?
And in the face of all this we still have a fragmented and -oddly- unelectable opposition. I would say ‘cry the beloved country’ but its already been cried.

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:50:35 +0000

My my, lets go fishing where the dish are. Lets market heavily in the US Northeast. How original! Gee,that is what that useless UBP used to do in the days when Bermudaa actually had a growing tourism industry. We all know that the UBP never did anything right. Why would the PLP do the same thing?

Because that is where the money is, thats why. If they can get here on one flight, or at most two flights same airline leaving home the same day, market those cities. I hope race based tourism ends too. Money comes in one colour. Green. Market to those who have lots of green.