CTO News Stories on APD


Telegraph.co.uk: Increases in Air Passenger Duty take effect on November 1. Charles Starmer-Smith reports on the likely impact it will have on travel and outlines why Britons must oppose it.

Comment by CTO Secretary General, Hugh Riley on the UK Passenger tax, published by the Telegraph. 

Travelmole: Caribbean tourism leaders have slammed the planned rise in UK Air Passenger Duty
Jamaica tourism minister Ed Bartlett, Caribbean Tourism Organisation acting secretary general High Riley and Dianne Abbott MP strongly criticised the plans while attending an industry function in London. 

Link: http://www.travelmole.tv/watch_vdo.php?id=15097





 
Travel Trade Gazette: Caribbean ramps up APD lobbying  ; Link: http://bit.ly/uIKnk

Daily Telegraph: Caribbean anger over 'unfair' UK flights tax ; Link: http://bit.ly/UHtfp


BBC Caribbean: CTO warns against tax

British parliamentarians have been told by the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) that the UK's proposed increases in air passenger duty will hurt Caribbean tourism. That message is being drummed home in the British capital London, by the CTO's interim Secretary General Hugh Riley.

Mr Riley has been meeting with members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, explaining the kind of effect the CTO fears the proposed increases will have on Caribbean tourism.

"We believe that it will erode the competitiveness of the Caribbean," the CTO official said of the tax to be imposed from November on Caribbean and other long haul flights out of the UK. He said the measure would have a negative effect on airline tickets to the Caribbean, and that the impact would be felt in tourist destinations in the region.

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2009/06/090618_niblunchtime.shtml