Guides could work for charters too.

Furnishing matters greatly.

http://tribune242.com/users/photos/2017…

Thank you LLoyd.

Just add the cost of the fishing license to your room rate, then do it for them manually and have guests pick up from the front desk until the online option is available. I've never procured a fishing license off site when choosing fishing for a hotel activity. The desk for fishing did it where I got my rods. Your profiles on TripAdvisor and the rest can say fishing license included or no fishing license required with local guides in the title (not that $15 really makes the difference)

Have a contact that internationals can call. Lodge owners can group together to have a foreign booking agent contact. Hustle your marketing.

Welcome to competition. If you can't compete now, I'm not sure what you'l have left after WTO.

Long Island Bone fishing Losge doesn't show up when I search " Bahamas Fishing Lodge".

Got get Search Engine Optimization for your site if most booking are through that channel.

https://www.google.com/search?q=long+is…

http://longislandbonefishinglodge.com/

https://chestersbonefishlodge.com/

This article also has to come with statistical facts, not just personal observation. What is the BFFIA saying about Bahamian owned bs foreign and how the guides are benefitting?

Bahamian guides can come up with a shtick and be an attraction in themselves. I haven't seen any Bahamian guide videos. Maybe Europeans think guides don't speak English.

I'm for licenses but I don't know how long a guide requirement for personal foreign fishing boats will hold up.

You'll have to advertise and present in the way the American bahamas fishing lodge sites do. Does the tourism site link to the fishing resources?

Promote to booking agents. Simply promote no license required with local guide. Get presence in their magazines and trade shows. If you're not online, have nothing to say.

His suggestion of fishing licenses being a % of the room rate makes no sense.