The Bahamian hotel industry is currently "around 75-80 per cent of pre-recession levels", Tribune Business was told yesterday, following an improved April showing where room revenues increased by 9.6 per cent on the back of improved rate and occupancy showings.

Stuart Bowe, the Bahamas Hotel Association's (BHA) president, said in response to Tribune Business questions that the room revenue increase, following a relatively soft 2011 first quarter, resulted largely from "collective promotion efforts" involving the Ministry of Tourism and industry "primarily around" the Companion Fly Free initiative.

A further boost came fro ...

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