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Sealy highlights tourism achievements

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BARBADOS IS ON stream for a hat trick of record tourist arrivals.

Word of this from Minister of Tourism Richard Sealy who was speaking to the media during a break of the opening session of the 31stĀ annual sales conference of the Caribbean Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (CARAIFA), at Hilton Barbados this morning.

Sealy said the country was seeing the results of the marketing and other efforts from the relevant arms of his ministry and boasted that as of the end of April arrivals were up by 8.2 per cent over the same period last year. Sealy did not give figures, but air arrivals for January to March stood at 192 298.

ā€œAll Barbadians should feel proud to know that in 2016, the 50thĀ year of our nationhood more people came to Barbados than at any time in our history. . . .The point is that we still have something very special that people from outside of Barbados want a part of,ā€ Sealy said.

About 300 delegates from about 11 Caribbean countries are in Barbados for the conference which runs through Wednesday. (YB)

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