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INFINITY ON THE BEACH AND PIRATE’S INN SOAR TO NEW HEIGHTS The Intimate Hotels of Barbados group is celebrating 23 years of providing service excellence in the hospitality industry. This membership association of 40 hotels started in 2000 under the trading name Small...
The Rise of Yellow Bird
The Intimate Hotels of Barbados group is celebrating 23 years of providing service excellence in the hospitality industry. This membership association of 40 hotels started in 2000 under the trading name Small Hotels of Barbados Inc. and represents the best of the...
ECO Lifestyle & Lodge & Sea Fans Restaurant Attain ‘Blue Verification’
ECO Lifestyle & Lodge, Bathsheba Barbados, and Sea Fans Restaurant and Bar at Infinity on the Beach, St. Lawrence gap attained their official ‘Blue Verification’. This brings the number to five companies on the island which are Blue Verified. Click here to learn...
IHB members ECO Lifestyle & Lodge & Sea Fans Restaurant Attain ‘Blue Verification’
Oceanic Global is partnering with UNDP Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean's Accelerator Lab to roll out their Blue Seal program with local sustainable consultant partner JustaTAAD. Blue transitions businesses away from environmentally detrimental operations and makes...
Press Release: South Gap Hotel Completes BDS 6M Renovations
The management and staff of South Gap Hotel are extremely excited to announce the completion of a $6 million renovation of its room accommodations and public spaces. The project was concluded in two phases over a period of two years. Phase 1 was completed in 2017...
Voluntourism and Tourism Development go hand in hand
The IHB is eager to incorporate ‘Voluntourism' into its development of the tourism product. A visitor or welcome stamper can feed their sense of global responsibility while, at the same time, learning about the culture of the island by taking part in positive tourism...
Women Championing the Tourism Industry
The tourism product of Barbados has blossomed over the decades, with hospitality as one of its richest fruits. What many may not know is that, at the helm of some of the island’s most alluring vacation properties, sits a female owner or manager. Female leadership in...
The IHB’s Sustainability Thrust
Building a capacity for sustainability in all areas for the island’s small hoteliers is at the forefront of the work of the Secretariat and the Board of Directors for the Intimate Hotels of Barbados. The Executive Director, Davina Layne is adamant that the...
IHB Mandate
Intimate Hotels of Barbados (IHB), a non-profit organisation, is made up of locally owned small hotels and apartments. In 2000, the IHB was established to provide marketing and other operational enhancement services for its members. These include advisory...
Corporate Social Responsibility
The IHB feels strongly about focusing on Social Sustainability to ensure the persons who work in hotels and communities are kept central to the sector’s development and are incorporated into actions which promote good practices.