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Delta Airlines Weekly Non-Stop Flights to St. Kitts

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
January 21, 2008 (CUOPM)

Plans continue for the inauguration of the once weekly scheduled flight by Delta Airlines into St. Kitts’ Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport with the training of local employees.

Airport Manager Mr. Denzil Jones said counter space has been provided to the US carrier for the introduction of the new non-stop flight from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to St. Kitts’ Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport on February 16th.

The St. Kitts Tourism Authority said Delta Air Lines flight DL373 will depart Atlanta at 11:15 a.m. eastern daylight-saving time and arrive into St. Kitts’ Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport at 4:05 p.m. local time. The return flight DL372 will depart St. Kitts at 4:55 p.m. and arrive into Atlanta at 8:05 p.m. These flight times allow for several convenient connections from the feeder banks on both flight segments

By David Jessop
January 20, 2008

Last week in Nassau, I had the opportunity to listen to an address by Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, who recently assumed the role of Chairman of Caricom.

He was opening ‘Caribbean Marketplace’, the Caribbean Hotel Association’s (CHA) annual commercial gathering. Later the same evening, I heard a much broader and domestic version of his thinking when he addressed the Bahamian people on television.
In both cases and unlike some of his regional counterparts, Mr. Ingraham had much that was serious to say about the challenges facing the tourism sector in the region and in The Bahamas.

He identified near-to-static growth in arrivals; the increasing cost of energy; the challenge of climate change; the increased costs of airlift; and, the need to address the competitive imbalance between cruise and land-based tourism. He pointed also to the changing nature of the industry and its evolution from traditional European plan hotels (accommodation only) to mixed-use resorts and the rapid expansion of vacation ownership products that are appearing in formats that include timeshare, vacation-ownership plans, condo-hotel residences and fractional ownership.

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
January 18, 2008

St. Kitts and Nevis has been invited to host the Fifth Petro Caribe Summit in June this year.

This is according to Minister of Public Utilities, Transport and Posts Honourable Earl Asim Martin, who was addressing the media during his first press conference for 2008.

He elaborated that there have already been two Petro Caribe Summits in Venezuela, one in Jamaica and one in Cuba. The Minister further noted that in his experience the summits are elaborate affairs with heads of government attend with large delegations. He speculated that His Excellency Hugo Chavez should be among the Presidents in attendance. It was revealed that the first committee meeting to plan the event will be held January 23, 2008.

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
January 17, 2008 (CUOPM)

St. Kitts and Nevis‘ Minister of State for Tourism, Hon. Richard Skerritt says that American Airlines’ non-stop, twice-weekly round trip service on Wednesdays and Sundays to St. Kitts’ Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport has already proven to be a “bonanza” for the destination.

“The load factors have been fantastic. We are very pleased and so is American,” Skerritt said during a press briefing at the Caribbean Hotel Association’s Caribbean Market place 2008 in Nassau, Bahamas.

The destination will welcome Delta’s new weekly Saturday service beginning Feb. 16 from Atlanta, which will complement exiting nonstop service from Miami on American and from Charlotte, N.C., on US Airways as well as connecting service via San Juan on American Eagle.

Basseterre, Saint Kitts – Nevis
January 17, 2008 (CUOPM)

With an annual increase in visitor arrivals to St. Kitts and Nevis and more resorts either under construction or being planned, another passionate call has been made for nationals to get involved in the provision of services in the industry.

That call has come from St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas, when he appeared as a guest on VON Radio’s “Let’s Talk” Programme recently.

Dr. Douglas said 2007 was a “very blessed year, because the economy has been transitioning out of sugar agriculture and it is moving very confidently into tourism. Over the past year, we had more visitors coming to our shores than ever before.”

He noted that it is projected that some 400,000 cruise ship passengers will disembark at Port Zante, “bringing untold opportunities to our taxi drivers, the local entrepreneurs who provide goods and services to our hotels and restaurants, and, of course, they bring revenue to the government treasury as well as money into their households so that their families can live better lives.”

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