Barbados’ new protocols for entry into the country during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have been given the thumbs down by a veteran hotelier.
Ralph Taylor, chairman of the SoCo Hotels Group, and who formerly operated Almond Beach Village in St Peter, said the existing requirements for entry into Barbados were too restrictive if the country was serious about re-energising the tourism product.
In a release yesterday, Taylor, a former chairman of the Barbados Tourism Authority, said while there was the need to protect Barbadians from the coronavirus, it was important to find the balance between protection and restarting the economy so people could be employed, and families begin to recover from the financial mess they were all in.
He said most hotel workers had been unemployed for five to six months and this had had an impact across the economy.
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