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The Ministry of Tourism has a new initiative which involves the addition of 500 rooms per year for the next three years.<\/p>

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According to Tourism Minister Charles \u201cMax\u201d Fernandez, tourism is seeing increase in air arrival figures to the island which is said to be at 12.5 percent for 2019 over the same period last year.<\/p>\n

A total of 25,188 more visitors landed at the V C Bird International Airport in 2019 (225,791) than last year (200,603).<\/p>

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\u201cThat had to do with the fact that we had a new, strong marketing initiative \u2013 #whatcoollookslike,\u201d said Fernandez.<\/p>

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The campaign began back in March and has offered consumers major savings on their vacation to Antigua and Barbuda for travel during the periods April \u2013 October, 2019.<\/p>\n

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The Ministry of Tourism has a new initiative which involves the addition of 500 rooms per year for the next three years. 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