By Aaron Humes: Reynaldo Malik, President of the Belize Hotel Association (BHA), says Belize is in a position to benefit from the misfortune of other destinations, particularly the United States, Mexico, and Jamaica.
The former is just coming out of a government shutdown and paying back pay to workers; Mexico faces travel advisories due to renewed drug and gang-related violence, and Jamaica continues to recover from Hurricane Melissa in October.
Malik told us that the number of flights on the weekend will see an increase in passengers through mid-December, with a slight slowdown until the middle of January, and then rising consistently through the rest of January, February, and March into April, corresponding with colder weather in the temperate climates.
But he notes that the so-called “slow season,” which typically starts with June and runs into November, consistent with warmer weather, has contracted because of the work being done by the destination: “Now, we are setting records in August – August 2025 is the benchmark August in the entire history of the country. Now you will notice that we are talking particularly September and October and perhaps the first half of November as our peak season. What that signals is that what we have been doing is working. We’ve shortened that off-season window, that green-season window, and so you can expect that we will continue some of the things we have been doing – what has been working we will continue to do those things, and the goal, I think, the overarching goal, is a product that is year-round – that doesn’t quite experience the lows we are experiencing in terms of some of the months right now.”
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By Aaron Humes: Reynaldo Malik, President of the Belize Hotel Association (BHA), says Belize is in a position to benefit from the misfortune of other destinations, particularly the United States, Mexico, and Jamaica. The former is just coming out of a government shutdown and paying back pay to workers; Mexico faces travel advisories due to
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