Barbados is poised to take greater advantage of developing trends in tourism, coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic which brought the industry to its knees.Chairman of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) Renée Coppin made the observation on Friday, as she pointed to several areas in which the island could do greater business, including health tourism and food tourism.Coppin, the long-time owner and operator of Infinity on the Beach Hotel and Pirate’s Inn, said while the island has been doing some business across those and other areas, it was time to ramp up efforts given that the sector continued to “evolve and revolve”.“I believe that Barbados has never been better suited to the revolution. The major trends in tourism right now are seen to be sustainable tourism which is driven by the reality that we are destroying our very climate that we rely on to live in, and people have never been more conscious of the need not only to reduce their footprint but to have a positive long-term impact on the communities that they visit,” said Coppin.
