Ma hope o hoʻokahi makahiki o ka ulu ʻana o ka moʻolelo, ke manaʻo nei ʻo Barbados i ka nui o ka nui o nā mea kipa o ka US me ka uptick hou loa i ka lawelawe lele i ka ʻāina. I kēia mahina, ua wehe ʻo ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa i kāna mau ala hou loa, kahi e ʻekolu ana ka holo ʻana o kēlā me kēia lā mai Miami International Airport (MIA) a i Grantley Adams International Airport (BGI).
E hoʻomaka ana i Kēkēmapa 19, 2018, e pili ke ala hou i ka piʻi ʻana o Barbados ma ke ʻano he Caribbean hopena du jour. Ma ka 2017, ua hoʻokipa ʻo Barbados i nā malihini kipa o 188,970 - he 30 makahiki ke kiʻekiʻe a ʻaʻole hōʻike ka ʻāina i nā ʻōuli o ka lohi.
"He mākeke ulu nui ka USA no Barbados a me ke kūpaʻa a mākou i ʻike ai mai nā hoa mokulele e hoʻonui a hoʻonui i nā koho lele ke kākoʻo nei i kēia ʻano," i ʻōlelo ʻia e ke Kuhina Huakaʻi a Barbados a me International Transport, ka Mea Hanohano Richard Sealy. "E like me kā mākou e ʻike nei, ʻo ka maʻalahi a me ka hiki ke komo i mua nā mea hoʻokele mua no ka noʻonoʻo ʻana o nā mea kūʻai aku i kahi huakaʻi, a me kēia lawelawe hoʻonui ʻia mai ka puka ʻo Miami, ke manaʻo nei mākou i kahi kūleʻa hou aku me nā hōʻea malihini mai ka mākeke USA.
ʻO ke kūleʻa ʻana o nā pae mokulele kiʻekiʻe kahi hana nui loa no Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI), a ʻo kēia hoʻolaha hou ka hōʻike no kēia hoʻolālā.
"Ua hauʻoli mākou i ka hoʻomau ʻana e ulu i ko mākou alo ma Barbados i kēia Kekemapa e hiki mai ana me kahi alapine kau hou, e hoʻonui ana i kā mākou kūpaʻa ma mua o 40 mau makahiki i kēia wahi nui i ka Caribbean," wahi a Alfredo Gonzalez, Luna Hoʻokele- Caribbean. "Me kēia ala hou e hana mākou i ʻehā mau lele i kēlā me kēia lā i Barbados i ka wā hoʻoilo mai kā mākou hubs ma Miami a me Charlotte."
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