Meet the OBE Recipient who has moved her life and her business to Barbados

Margaret Manning OBE is living the Caribbean dream on the Barbados Welcome Stamp A self-described ‘digital entrepreneur with a special focus on business agility and innovation’, Margaret Manning OBE, from Soho, London, decided earlier this year to take advantage of the Barbados Welcome Stamp and move her life and business to the Caribbean Island of…

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Visit Barbados appoint TravelMedia.ie as PR Representatives in UK Market

TravelMedia.ie are proud to announce that they have been appointed as PR representatives for Visit Barbados in the UK market. Pictured: Michael Collins, MD & Founder, TravelMedia.ie | Cheryl Carter Director UK & Ireland and Interim Head of Global Markets for Visit Barbados Cheryl Carter, Director UK & Ireland and Interim Head of Global Markets…

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Barbados Welcomes Fully Vaccinated Cruising

As tourism continues to reopen worldwide, Barbados’ cruise sector has made a progressive step towards a strong return by welcoming fully vaccinated travellers back to the island. On Monday, June 7, 2021, the Celebrity Millennium became the first ship to arrive under the new protocols for cruises dedicated to fully vaccinated Minister of Tourism and…

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Committee on Tourism Ethics recommends responsible use of Travel Certificates

COVID-19 certificates for international travel must be free, universally available and non-discriminatory. They must also be limited in time and use, the World Committee on Tourism Ethics has recommended. As some countries work to welcome back visitors and restart tourism, the Committee met to assess the implications health certificates might have on tourism ethics. As…

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HSE not using all available resources for vaccine rollout

  TMB Ready to Assist Government with National Vaccination Plan   Tropical Medical Bureau (TMB), the leading travel medicine clinic group in Ireland, is ready to assist the Irish government with the national Covid19 vaccine rollout. Dr Graham Fry, Founder and Group Medical Director of TMB said, “we are well experienced in the administering of…

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Barbados Leading in Mass Vaccination Effort

Date: 1st March 2021 Barbados is in the process of a mass COVID-19 vaccination programme, following the donation of 100,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the Republic of India. And now with over 25,000 people – approximately 12.5 per cent of the adult population – already receiving their first shots within just two weeks, Barbados…

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Oxford Vaccine Should be Used for Over 65’s says Irish Vaccination Expert

With Ireland’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout starting this week, one of the countries leading tropical medicine and vaccination experts has said he believes that the government are making a huge mistake by not using the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on the over 65 age group. This decision was taken following a report from the Germany’s Robert Koch Institute…

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Vaccine Tourism

Press release date: 11th February 2021 Tropical Medical Bureau (TMB), Ireland’s largest travel medicine group, has noticed a new trend in people requesting PCR tests, prior to them travelling back to their home countries to be vaccinated against COVID-19. For example, this week TMB conducted PCR tests on Russian and British citizens who were preparing…

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