Articles & Reports

The St. Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association’s “Tourism Matters” Quarterly Newsletter – July 2011
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Tourism Matters: Issue No. 20

ECONOMIC OVERVIEW ─ STILL ON THE BRINK
As the first half of the year reached an unsettling conclusion, there was little cause for optimism that the global recovery picture was showing much improvement from the disasters that beset life in the first quarter.
Internationally, stock prices fell sharply for most of June; factory production fell together with [...]

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The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) firmly rejects comments by Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo describing as “absolute nonsense” that governments were taxing hotels out of existence.  He made those remarks at a press conference at the CARICOM summit held recently in St. Kitts.  The members of CHTA are most [...]

Sources: Vacations Agent, Issue Sixty-one February 11th 2010
St. Lucia is poised to welcome a record number of Tourists
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Island Rebound – Vacation Agent

The Importance of Statistics to Decision-Making, Business Planning and Success in the Tourism Sector
By McHale S C Andrew – Executive Vice President, SLHTA
 “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” These famous words were articulated by the 19th century British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. His observation, while not calculated to please statisticians, [...]