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Speaker 1: stocks extended losses. The dollar climbed after the biggest gain

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Speaker 1: in US retail sales in a year, reignited speculation the

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Speaker 1: Fed mayliff rates as early as June. The SMP five

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Speaker 1: hundred index down seventeen points today, dropping nine tenths of

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Speaker 1: four percent down, Industrials down a hundred eighty five points,

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Speaker 1: forty thirty three, a drop of eight tenths of one

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Speaker 1: percent I'm Charlie Pelton. That's a bloom bird business flashy. Well,

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Speaker 1: that seems appropriate to play as we are broadcasting live

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Speaker 1: from Elbow Beach, Bermuda, ocean front enclave of classic style

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Speaker 1: and contemporary luxury. And for all those who had to

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Speaker 1: go through today's market action with the SMP five hundred

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Speaker 1: down that a tens of a percent. Let's see if

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Speaker 1: we can sheer people up a little bit. And we've

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Speaker 1: got just a person to do that. Bill Hanbury is

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Speaker 1: the chief executive of the Bermuda Tourism Authority and he

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Speaker 1: joins us now, thank you very much for being with us.

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Speaker 1: Him good to be with you. Thanks. That has got

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Speaker 1: to be a dream job. It's it's a great job

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Speaker 1: to Bermuda is a great destination to be representing and

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Speaker 1: a wonderful place to live. My wife and I are

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Speaker 1: Americans who had the great opportunity to come here three

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Speaker 1: years ago and we've enjoyed every single minute of it.

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Speaker 1: And we actually uh get a chance to walk on

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Speaker 1: this beach on a regular basis, so we uh it's

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Speaker 1: a life is good in Bermuda. I have to say

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Speaker 1: it's my first visit to Bermuda and I'm I was

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Speaker 1: really surprised. I mean, I just didn't realize how there's

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Speaker 1: just something so beautiful about it and the people. There's

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Speaker 1: just a culture. There's something about the spirit here that

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Speaker 1: is very gracious, very welcoming that I didn't anticipate. It's

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Speaker 1: a it's a first it's a first tier country with

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Speaker 1: the with some island soul and uh. It is truly

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Speaker 1: one of the pre eminent destinations in the world. It

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Speaker 1: was for many, many years. So back in the fifties, sixties,

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Speaker 1: and seventies, if you are looking for the premiere luxury destination,

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Speaker 1: Bermuda was on that list. Kind of lost our focus

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Speaker 1: a little bit through the eighties and nineties as international

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Speaker 1: business um urged as a kind of a key part

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Speaker 1: of the economy. And I'm sure you've probably heard that

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Speaker 1: from the premiere when you talk today. But the reality

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Speaker 1: is tourism product is still spectacular, and we're now trying

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Speaker 1: to balance international business with a more astute understanding of

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Speaker 1: our tourism product. Tell us about what you're trying to accomplish.

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Speaker 1: What would you like to see Bermuda look like, let's

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Speaker 1: say in five to ten years. Well, we still wanted

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Speaker 1: him to be the same place it is today. Extraordinary

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Speaker 1: sense of service and quality, first tire, safe, secure, a

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Speaker 1: place where you can relax but also connect to an

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Speaker 1: island vibe that is really kind of unique to Permuta.

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Speaker 1: So we're going in that direction. Um. There will be

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Speaker 1: significant new development in the next five years in Bermuda

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Speaker 1: with new hotel capacity, renovations at hotels. If you take

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Speaker 1: a look at the just the energy that exists here

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Speaker 1: at Elbow Beach today, UM, this this property is on

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Speaker 1: the on the upswing in a big way, as is

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Speaker 1: the Bermuda product. And so uh, we're trying to be

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Speaker 1: more competitive and more adaptable to uh what is a

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Speaker 1: very very competitive environment that we live in. But we

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Speaker 1: think we've got the right product to to compete well.

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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of competition the the Caribbean, many

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Speaker 1: island nations there these you know, the the um Minan

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Speaker 1: coast of of Mexico, the Mind Review as they call it, right,

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Speaker 1: all these have been coming up rapidly Bermuda. Now you're here.

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Speaker 1: We had earlier talk also to um uh ed heard

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Speaker 1: a bird's excuse me, who's the running able beach? Now

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Speaker 1: he's been here just two or three years, so a

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Speaker 1: lot of a lot of focus. Now government's spending more

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Speaker 1: created um Bermuda also had a big shock in international business,

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Speaker 1: and I think there was a realization at that time

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Speaker 1: that we needed the better balance the country's economy and

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Speaker 1: begin to refocus on tourism. And we've been passed by

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Speaker 1: by the dubrod Nicks, the Dubai's, the Abu Dhabi's twenty

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Speaker 1: years ago, those were not destinations that people were going

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Speaker 1: to and um today, Uh, those are dynamic, energized destinations

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Speaker 1: big leagues against So the country's expending more more financial resources.

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Speaker 1: We've sought a higher level of professionalism within the tourism

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Speaker 1: authority and within government to deal on this global scale,

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Speaker 1: and we're making very significant progress. Certainly, America's Cup was

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Speaker 1: one of those defining moments where that was not lightly

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Speaker 1: thought about. It was a premeditated, very thoughtful approach to

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Speaker 1: go chase America's Cup because year next year in it

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Speaker 1: goes to our nautical and marine legacy in a huge way.

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Speaker 1: We don't have to fabricate it, we don't have to

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Speaker 1: fake it. We're we're really one of the pre eminent

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Speaker 1: sailing destinations in the world. And I think, uh, certainly

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Speaker 1: America's couple reinforced it. How about the air links to

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Speaker 1: North America and other regions around the world to bring tourists. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a great question and and it's uh,

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Speaker 1: it's something that sometimes people don't realize where we are geographically.

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Speaker 1: Wheels up, wheels down, ninety minutes from JFK, ninety minutes

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Speaker 1: from Boston, uh, an hour and forty minutes from Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: two hours from from Atlanta and Miami. So we are, uh,

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Speaker 1: we're much more accessible in many respects, at least from

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Speaker 1: the East coast in Canada than the Caribbean would be.

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Speaker 1: And um, we just need to tell people that we

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Speaker 1: need to get that message out. And you know, of

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Speaker 1: all of our visitors are coming from the northeastern part

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Speaker 1: of the United States, and the more we message into

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Speaker 1: the Boston, the Philadelphia, that particularly the metro New York markets,

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Speaker 1: the better off we are. And and that capacity, that

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Speaker 1: airline capacity is very very important to us to make

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Speaker 1: sure that we have the lift necessary to to move

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Speaker 1: those new visitors to Bermuda. Well, Bill Hambury, we thank

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Speaker 1: you so very much for joining us, and of course

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Speaker 1: you crisis management nonprofit CEO, you helped do so much

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Speaker 1: of Government at Harvard. That was a few years ago. Congratulations.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well Blo Hambury, thank you. He's the CEO

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Speaker 1: of the ber Munit Tourism Authority. We want to thank

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Speaker 1: everybody who has been so wonderful to us while we've

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Speaker 1: been broadcasting live from Elbow Beach, Bermuny, Bermuda. It's an

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Speaker 1: ocean front enclave of classic style contemporary luxury. We want

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