, I’d also like to mention the astronomically high prices of airline tickets to Barbados…in all my years of traveling, I’ve never seen it like this. Over $900 for a 4.5 hr. flight, From NY, JFK to Barbados. I’d like to be able to pay for a flight with money left to pay for a car rental and to spend into the economy of Barbados. If flights are costing that much, I’m afraid I cannot travel to Barbados and contribute it its economy. Do we know why this is happening? And it’s at an off-peak time so I’m baffled why the prices are so inflated. I’m only one person, think about all the thousands of tourists and Bajans that travel every year for crop-over or the younger generation whose parents send them down for the summer vacation to stay with relatives. How can we assure them that this won’t continue in the future? What negotiations the airlines have or are having with the Barbados Tourism Industry? Can it be looked into? Have you heard any other complaints about this?
Yours Truly,
Roseann Rock-Grant
Remove the extra taxes on airline tickets. This makes Barbados an even more expensive destination. Instead, pay hotels a bonus of bds $20 or something per guest for every month they maintain greater than 80% overall occupancy composed of less than 30% Barbados resident guest (Staycation guest). This approach will cause hotels to look for ways to get that bonus. Which the only way is to increase their occupancy with foreign tourist, the more guest they get, the more the bonus for them once they meet the target.
Getting them to do this means they have to spend some money on advertising and marketing primarily. So they feed the economy in this way. Once their ventures are successful, the country benefits as the tourist come in. Look at Sandals for example. They built a brand new hotel and fill it instantly. The advertised... heavily….. A few years ago a minister I believe; thanked them for advertising Barbados. Advertising Barbados was not the objective. It was to fill the brand new Sandals hotels. Which it did.
For example, I travel a lot and I don’t see any ads in the Liat magazine for Barbadian hotels. When I get into the taxi at where ever I happen to be, some drivers don't even know where Barbados is.
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