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A<\/span>fter rolling out the \u2018Welcome Stamp\u2019 programme to attract people working from home, Barbados has plans to lure tourists all year round.<\/p>\n

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Barbados will shake up its tourism model in the wake of becoming a republic, hoping to attract travellers all year round, the tourism minister has said.<\/p>\n

The island nation has also renewed its Welcome Stamp programme \u2013 launched amid the pandemic \u2013 which grants people visas to work remotely in Barbados for a year.<\/p>\n

Sustainable tourism is a key issue for Barbados, Senator Lisa Cummins told i, adding that the country does not want to only welcome \u201csnowbirds\u201d \u2013 such as tourists from the UK \u2013 who flock to the island for some sun during the winter months at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would we want to cram two million visitors to a country of 166 square miles over a six-month period when we can spread that out over the course of a year?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want it to get into conversations around things like over-tourism. We don\u2019t want to be talking globally, as our prime minister [Mia Mottley] has about climate action and net zero, when we are ourselves engaging in practices that may or may not be sustainable.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to make sure that longer stays, more sustainable stays\u2026 a longer extended tourism season rather than a truncated tourism season lends itself to the question of sustainability in our industry and of course, diversification, within it,<\/em>\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In September and October, there were nearly 2,000 new Welcome Stamp applicants, mainly from the US, UK and Canada but also from places such as Australia, New Zealand and Africa.<\/p>\n

The programme was born during the pandemic in response to travel quarantine restrictions, which made short holidays pointless, and work from home rules, which gave people the freedom to relocate.<\/p>\n

This is an excerpt from an article by Serina Sandhu, originally published by iNews.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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