Congratulations to Ocean Two!
It has been a month since Adrian Loveridge published an article at BFP urging the Barbados Tourism Authority to pay attention to TripAdvisor – one of the top travel websites in the world. (See Barbados Tourism Authority ignores TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice awards).
Considering that almost 90% of tourists have some form of internet use when making travel plans, you’d think that the BTA would be big on capitalising on the Internet. Apparently not. It’s been a month and nothing from the BTA on the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice awards. If we’re wrong, somebody please let us know… but we don’t think we’re wrong.
It’s good to see though that the Barbados Advocate published a little news piece that Ocean Two made a five-star rating at TripAdvisor. Five Stars is a big deal and should boost their occupancy although Ocean Two is doing excellently already. Every little piece helps in this economy.
For the life of me, I don’t know what the Barbados Tourism Authority spends all their public money on. I see the results of the travel journalists’ free trips, but can someone please tell me where the BTA’s hundred million dollar a year budget goes? I might be wrong, but I just can’t see it.
Robert
Further Reading
Here’s the story from the Barbados Advocate. Please go to the paper to read it, but we have to publish the entire story here because the newspaper has a reputation for destroying or changing archived stories. A shame, but there it is. Continue reading