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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

More focus on Tobago tourism

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Last week's news from To­ba­go was de­cid­ed­ly mixed re­gard­ing the is­land's tourism prospects.For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an, who serves as head of Cari­com's For­eign Af­fairs Com­mit­tee, was keen to trum­pet the re­duc­tion of the UK Air Pas­sen­ger Du­ty (APD) for pas­sen­gers trav­el­ling to the Caribbean from �300 to �240 af­ter in­tense lob­by­ing by T&T, among oth­er coun­tries.

The re­cent UK bud­get state­ment re­forms the APD regime from 2015, abol­ish­ing steep­er tax rates in Bands C and D, cal­cu­lat­ed on dis­tances greater than 4,000 miles from the UK. T&T fell in­to Band C at 4354.84 miles from the UK.But T&T faces more prob­lems than a �60 re­duc­tion in a trav­el tax fee can al­le­vi­ate.In To­ba­go, the flag­ship is­land for tourism and the lo­ca­tion most com­pet­i­tive with the re­gion's tra­di­tion­al sun, sand and sea sales pitch, Vir­gin At­lantic Air­ways will be quit­ting at the end of March, cit­ing in­ad­e­quate in­fra­struc­ture.

Ac­cord­ing to Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine, Sec­re­tary for Tourism and Trans­porta­tion in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA), the is­sue boiled down to the in­abil­i­ty to pro­vide first-class and busi­ness-class lounges, along with oth­er sup­port fa­cil­i­ties, at the Arthur NR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al air­port.While the THA has moved quick­ly to meet the short­fall of 266 seats a week on the Lon­don-to-To­ba­go route through ne­go­ti­a­tions with British Air­ways and Monarch Air­lines, the prob­lem is like­ly to per­sist.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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