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Intra-regional travellers can look forward to a new regional carrier in the coming months.\u00a0CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>

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Chairman of the Barbados Tourism and Marketing Inc (BTMI) Shelly Williams disclosed that Government was in talks with private charters to establish a low-cost\u00a0regional airlift\u00a0while\u00a0speaking on the popular radio talk show,\u00a0Down to Brass Tacks<\/strong>\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the next couple of months, you may see another charter service, a budget charter service that will be able to take persons to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia and St Vincent, and those islands that we need to get to to be able to do business,\u201d Williams said, adding that Government was \u201cputting things in place\u201d to reduce the cost of travel.<\/p>

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The BTMI chair acknowledged that regional travel has been adversely impacted by the downfall of LIAT.<\/p>

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\u201cWe have had some challenges with LIAT. Right now, there is only one plane operational. We are in talks with private charter providers to see if we can set up, and have some planes that we can set up for airlift.<\/p>\n

We are actively looking. We have engaged with several players and tried to set up support for the ones that ate the ground right now.\u00a0It is a challenge for all of us. A lot of us rely on regional travel for business purposes,\u201d she remarked.<\/p>

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Williams also noted that the grounding of LIAT\u00a0has impeded regional tourism. She revealed that the high cost of regional travel has contributed to a\u00a0fall-off in bookings at lower-end [three stars and below] properties.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally what would drive business to those properties are festivals and sporting events and other things like that and because of COVID we had none. The cost of an airline ticket has maybe ostracized a certain type of traveller and on the other hand, we are having villas and luxury markets saying that they don\u2019t even have enough villas to satisfy the demand,\u201d she remarked. \u2014 LOOP<\/em><\/p>

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Intra-regional travellers can look forward to a new regional carrier in the coming months.\u00a0CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP FOR NEWS UPDATES. 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