Minister of Tourism Hon. Richard Sealy has announced that the Barbados Tourism Authority has a new Chairman, Adrian Elcock. Adrian Elcock

Barbados has outlined plans to develop its health and wellness tourism sector to help overcome the reliance of the country’s travel industry on seasonality and the vagaries of the global economic climate.

Barbados has enlisted the support of the travel industry in a bid to get the UK government to scrap Air Passenger Duty. The island’s Prime Minister David Thompson came to the UK to lobby the government to rethink the tax, which could add as much as £400 to the cost of a family holiday to the island.

Totally Barbados is a classic online success story - a website that started small but has grown a mass following. It capped a year of unprecedented success last December by winning “World’s Leading Travel Destination Website” at the 2008 World Travel Awards Grand Final in Turks & Caicos. So how did the site for all things Barbados do it?

Barbados is BTN’s Destination of the Month. In the first of a series of features, Adam Hakansson looks at how the Caribbean hideaway continues to prosper during the global downturn.

In summer 2006 Silver Point opens. This trendy beach-front 4 star luxury villa-hotel in Barbados introduces the finest in modern chic.