No, I can’t leave the Ministry of Tourism’s inept handling of statistics alone. And the statistics show October was bleak despite the fact the Island hosted the glitzy star-studded Bermuda Music Festival. While taxpayers shelled out $3 million to fly Beyonce, Alicia Keyes, UB40 and others to the Island in an attempt to woe visitors [...]
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Wacky Stats
March 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Accountability, Development, Tourism, Transport
We were treated to a funny show on Friday, when the Premier dragged out a Government Computer Guy to explain why the Tourism stats were wrong. Why him? Was the Rat Control Guy unavailable? Did all the Cabinet Office sycophants get out of the room first? The Tourism stats have been unreliable for many years. [...]
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Ministry of Silly Numbers
March 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Bermuda Politics, Tourism, Transport
The Premier today announced that, oops, Government found another accounting problem and that air arrivals last year were actually down a hell of a lot more than previously admitted. In fact, air arrivals were down 13.72% instead of 4.62%. Ooops. Tourism spending was down 22.3% – before the recession even got rolling. That’s pretty bad, [...]
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