TOURISM AUTHORITIES are predicting a double-digit growth in the United Kingdom market, while the United States is already up 25 per cent.
A day after welcoming two new JetBlue flights from the United States, officials were back at Grantley Adams International Airport greeting 330 passengers on board the inaugural Thomas Cook Airlines flight directly from Glasgow, Scotland.
Chief executive officer of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI), William “Billy” Griffith, said the country had maintained an estimated 13 per cent increase in UK visitors over 2014 figures.
“It’s just one further step in our effort to grow the UK market and certainly that is our intention. Since 2013 we were up about 13 per cent,” he said. (WILLCOMM)
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