ON THE EVE of the Independence holiday, and just two weeks shy of the start of the 2015-16 winter tourist season, the flight path into and out of Barbados is starting to look like many of the world’s busiest airports.
For almost 12 hours on Saturday, the runway at Grantley Adams International Airport smoked with the rubber from planes arriving and taking off with such regularity as to draw even the attention of people living near the facility who have almost become immune to the sound of jet engines.
Stressing that Barbadians could want no clearer indication that tourism was on the rebound, chairman of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc, Alvin Jemmott, revealed that things were about to get sweeter.
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