One hundred Family Island properties and 44 off the grid or underrated local companies made the cut for hot spots in the Bahamas for a leading international travel publishing company, Travel + Leisure. The magazine recently appointed award winning Bahamian Journalist Noelle Khalila, The Domestic Tourist, as its local expert. Noelle produced a series of top five lists for the …
Travel writer Noelle Khalila is spreading her message about the joys of Family Island travel in regional and international publications. Last week, Washington, D.C. travel writer Jeff Barger published an extensive interview with Noelle on his travel website “In Our Times”, sharing Noelle’s perspectives on Bahamian culture and the everyday idiosyncrasies of island living. From the top three things to …
IF the movements made by a handful of young Bahamian professionals over the past year in tourism are any indication of the entrepreneurial thinking of their counterparts, then there is some hope for the future outlook of tourism in the Bahamas. #Entrepreneurs such as Alanna Rogers, Jamie Lewis, Adlai Kerr and Scott Turnquest, owners of tourism startups Tru Bahamian Food …
THE last time I visited Cat Island, I explored the exclusive peninsula on the north-west coast known as Pigeon Cay. Luxury homes dot the shoreline of Pigeon Cay, overlooking a beautiful inland creek and mangrove system as well as a stunning stretch of white sand beach. #Some of the views from Pigeon Cay are indeed enviable. Unsurprisingly, when you ask …
IN conversation with my grand aunt last week, I was pleasantly surprised when she said we should teach our young boys that a woman’s vagina is not her private part, but her holy part; that to enter the vagina is to enter the womb of the Virgin Mary. Coming from a woman with more than 80 years of experience, I …