Barbados GIS - Several European countries have now been deemed high risk by health authorities for travel into Barbados. And a number of Caribbean countries have also been shifted from the low and medium risk categories to high risk. When the updated COVID-19 protocols for travel into Barbados
interCaribbean Airways promises reasonable airfare prices with its new connecting services between Barbados, Grenada, St. Lucia, and St Vincent Lyndon Gardiner, founder and chairman of interCaribbean, said that the fare would not be the exorbitant cost passengers have been putting up with, and complaining about, for
Report reveals Caribbean's Achilles' heel In its recent insight report titled Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Travel & Tourism (T&T) Competitiveness Landscape Report: Assessing Regional Opportunities and Challenges in the Context of COVID-19, the World Economic Forum (WEF) enumerated a number of factors that LAC countries
Scotland has announced its list of 57 countries exempt from mandatory two-week quarantine upon arrival into the country. The list is similar to UK’s Travel Corridor Exemption released earlier this week, minus Spain and Serbia. Travel industry leaders in the country asked the Scottish government to include Spain on that
Prime Minister Gaston Browne announced that "LIAT is likely to be liquidated" with COVID-19 increasing its losses exponentially. “You would have found that since COVID-19, the planes have been grounded, they have to pay the lease payments and they are not getting any revenue." A meeting of
Minister of Tourism, Economic Affairs, Transport and Telecommunication (TEATT) announced that Sint Maarten is ready to receive travellers from Europe and North America by July 1st, which coincides with their celebration of Emancipation Day. TEATT Minister Ludmila N.L. de Weever urged the public to continue
U.S. territory expects tourists after a month Puerto Rico’s Governor Wanda Vázquez recently announced that she will lift the three-month long restrictions imposed to curb coronavirus cases. This means the reopening of beaches, churches and businesses including movie theaters and gyms across the country. The decision will take
Barbados GIS - The 110 Barbadians who returned home on the latest repatriation flight out of the United States today were swabbed for COVID-19 immediately on disembarkation at the Grantley Adams International Airport. The new testing site at the airport eliminated much of the wait period
Stringent hygiene certification program launched to combat COVID-19 Aruba is gearing up to welcome inbound tourists again in its pristine shores. Officials are eyeing an official date sometime between June 15 and July 2020, but while they're at it, they have released a stricter set of health
City reopens borders, restarts metro services The Chinese city of Wuhan began lifting a two-month lockdown on Saturday. According to Reuters, the city already restarted some metro services and is reopening borders. Wuhan is where the first case of coronavirus was recorded in late December, and accounts for
