With a 20-year career at Ford, Mark Buzzell has been appointed managing director of Ford International Business Development Inc. for the Caribbean and Central America region, to which he will import his expertise in sales, marketing and service operations for the Ford and Lincoln brands.
Hoteliers are generally optimistic that 2012 will bring a modest recovery to Caribbean tourism arrivals, but at a recent conference in San Juan, there was plenty of grumbling that for too long, hotels have been shouldering an unfair tax burden when compared to the cruise industry.
A tax originally imposed by the British government to fight global warming is being viewed in the English-speaking Caribbean as a penalty against long-haul air travelers — and regional tourism officials are furious about it.
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