Also, I disagree from your second paragraph down.
Red tape is there to vet out hustlers from destroying public and environmental safety, along with the community peace of mind. If you had issues with red tape, that means our authority bodies have found issues with your plan. Sorry dog.

Regarding our tourism industry; during our hosting of the America’s Cup – the most watched sport on TV, we experienced the biggest surge of tourists since the 80′s. Otherwise this island has priced itself out of the market and getting worse every year while more beautiful paradise competitors give far more value regarding better quality excursion offerings unfortunately.

Regarding folks having ideas; well, unless someone comes up with an idea to lower the cost of living here, hence lowering the cost of goods and services for visitors, or at the very least secure a deal regarding another huge live streaming international event to be hosted locally to attract another surge, then their ideas aren’t really worthy. Possibly why Burt and co. are focusing on developing another industry.

Lastly, I don’t think most people understand entrepreneurship. Genuine entrepreneurs are highly; educated, motivated and experienced actual geniuses who are achievers regardless of lack of handouts, market conditions and competition.

Most others will do better for themselves by just working in typical safe 9-5 jobs.

I know in the past you’ve spoken about the difficulty entrepreneurs have in cutting through the red tape of Government to bring new ideas to market.

The struggle is real and it creates a significant imbalance in Bermuda as to who owns and continues to dominate the tourist experience market in Bermuda.

As an entrepreneur myself, I can say first hand that the process is broken. The requirements, hurdles, time, frustration, disorganization and expense involved in trying to get all of the necessary approvals make it such that small aspiring businesses just quit before the idea gets off the ground.

Or worse, by the time your business plan is in circulation with all of the various Government boards, one of your would be competitors, some of whom sit on these very boards that you need approval from, just take your idea and do it before you because they already have an operational business and it much easier to simply add your idea to their offerings.

There lots of Bermudians who have great idea that go nowhere and our overall tourism product suffers.

My suggestion is the create a one stop shop, streamlined process for entrepreneurs to bring their idea and March it from idea to business. I don’t think that it is possible to do this inside the existing Government framework. It is too cumbersome and in truth, we are the Island of No. The system of Government is not invested in the success of the tourism product. The vision of the Premier and the BTA dies at many of these Government boards and departments.

If we are going to move our tourism product forward, we need someone with boldness, vision and clout to make our leadership understand that the system we currently have is not only broken but in many ways, it ensures that those business that have owned and dominated the Bermuda tourism market for many years, will continue to do so.

And that isn’t right.

All the best to you in your new role and thanks for all that the BTA do for Bermuda.

an amazing title meaning what exactly?

Trust me!!