Key players in the airline and airport industry responsible for developing new routes to, from and within the Americas are set to touch down in The Bahamas next year, as the Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD) prepares to host the fifth Routes Americas forum.

The annual event attracts more than 200 leaders in the airline and airport industry from North, Central and South America, and the Caribbean for strategic networking on air service development.

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Speaking at the Domain Roundtable conference being held at Atlantis March 1-4, Robert Moore, chief executive officer and co-founder of New York-based Media Labs Inc addressed delegates on the topic of Leveraging Social Media–Turning Traffic Into Revenue.

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For four days this week, industry leaders, policy makers and major players will be discussing the key issues in the field of domain assets and e-business at Domain Roundtable at Atlantis, Paradise Island. The conference will cover topics as diverse as tactics for branding, leveraging social network media, navigating the marketplace and domain development.

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The government has announced it will establish a new Grand Bahama business development board to drive investment to the island and promote its potential.

Addressing the thirteenth annual Grand Bahama Business Outlook last week, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance Zhivargo Laing said that the new board would be a partnership between the government, the Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) and the Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce.

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The government will not stint in providing its citizens, residents and visitors with infrastructure and services befitting a 21st century Bahamas, with a world-class tourism product and international business centre, according to Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham.

Ingraham made the remarks at the official opening of the Nassau Airport Development Company’s (NAD) new, $190.8-million US departure terminal at the Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) last weekend.

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Local airline and the winner of this year’s Cacique Award for Transportation, SkyBahamas Airlines Ltd, is looking to expand its fleet in tandem with the launch of a new route to Florida, according the airline’s chairman K Peter Turnquest.

The new route from Freeport to Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm, Florida, is likely to run twice a day and will be introduced in Q2 this year, says Turnquest.

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She’s been in office for only two months, yet Dr Betsy Vogel Boze, The College of The Bahamas’ (COB) fifth president, has already taken up the challenge and started displaying proven leadership and management skills–character traits the college listed as essential in its presidential search.

“I appreciate the trepidation that transition brings. I am not here to change The College of The Bahamas, but to embrace it and to help guide this fine institution to the next level; to nurture it through thoughtful evolution,” says Boze. “A college or university, however old, must continuously reinvent itself; listening, learning and supported anew by students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends. I want to build upon our successes.”

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After years of negotiations, planning, setbacks and controversy, the multi-billion dollar Baha Mar resort on Cable Beach, New Providence, officially broke ground on Monday February 21.

The project estimated to be worth $3.4 billion, is one of the largest private sector development projects ever to be carried out on Bahamian soil and is expected to be completed by 2014. The hotel resort complex will cover 1,000 acres and will house approximately 3,800 hotel rooms, a 100,000 sq ft casino, 18-hole Jack Nicklaus signature golf course, 60,000 sq ft retail village, and a 20-acre beach and pool “experience”.

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Addressing the theme of “Crisis and Opportunity in the Global Economy” at the 2011 FreedomFest Economic Summit, a panel of top financial analysts and economists discussed the current geo-political climate in terms of investment and wealth management.

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Established by financial economist Mark Skousen as an alternative to the Davos G20 economic summit, FreedomFest gathers together some of the top free market experts once a year to discuss economic trends and investment strategies.

In his opening keynote address, Skousen spoke about forecasts and strategies for 2011 and how the financial crisis creates danger and opportunities in an investment portfolio. Specifically, the economist drew attention to growth in emerging markets, particularly China.

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