Margaret Manning OBE is living the Caribbean dream on the Barbados Welcome Stamp. Margaret Manning talks about living in Barbados and being a participant of the Welcome Stamp Visa program. Margaret Manning OBE, a digital entrepreneur with a special focus on business agility and innovation, and Founder and CEO of Digital Conversations.

Margaret talks to TravelMedia.ie about why she decided to travel to Barbados, how she applied for the Barbados Welcome Stamp, and how suitable remote working in Barbados is.

Launched in July 2020, the 12-month Barbados Welcome Stamp visa offers individuals from across the globe the opportunity to live and work remotely in paradise. Boasting beautiful beaches, warm weather, welcoming locals and strong internet connectivity all around the island, it’s no surprise that the Barbados Welcome Stamp Visa has generated such a huge amount of interest and has seen applications from individuals, couples and families from all over the world.

Welcome Stamp Visa holders have been arriving to Barbados since August and the destination has worked to ensure that the application process for the 12-month Welcome Stamp is as simple and seamless as possible with fees of US $2,000 for individuals and a family bundle fee of US $3000 available. The visa is valid for one year but may be re-applied for. Applicants will not be liable for Barbados Income Tax but a health insurance policy is mandatory.

Barbados boasts the fastest fibre internet and mobile services in the Caribbean and with a range of different flexible office space locations, the working environment in Barbados definitely enables you get things done! Barbados also offers excellent health care and a high education standard, so it is ideal for those who want to bring their families to the island for the 12-month period.

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Voice Transcript:
- My name is Margaret Manning, and I'm a digital entrepreneur. The pandemic hit, and I read this amazing article about Barbados's crazy idea to offer a digital nomad visa, now called the Welcome Stamp. And quite frankly, for me, it was an absolute, total no-brainer. It came at a perfect time in my career. I was looking for new opportunities, new ideas, new innovations. And it struck me that because of the Welcome Stamp, Barbados would be filled with like-minded individuals, innovators, entrepreneurs, with a lot of ideas, a melting pot of ideas. Came over here, and found that's exactly what we've got. I've been in Barbados now for six months, and I have met so many interesting people, of many, many, many different nationalities. And actually my surprise was also across all age groups. There are people from 18 to not quite 80, but it's getting on that way, and people from all walks of life, people who are owning their own businesses, people who've never ever run a business. And that's what has been fantastic, seeing those people that have come here, and have changed their life story because of what they've found here. So the people that I've met here have actually found an enormous range of things. They've found obviously fantastic weather, they've found great fun, but they've also found inspiration. They're finding inspiration from each other. They're learning from each other. And so I came here looking for inspiration, and I found inspiration. The Welcome Stamp as a 12-month program was extremely interesting, but what it has definitely done is it's morphed the idea of what tourism is, what tourism could be, and what tourism should be in the future. The change in the way that we work actually meets the change in the way that we want to undertake leisure. So those two things together are creating a hugely interesting pivotal point for tourism. And you're seeing many different ideas coming out from a lotta different people, from the concept of co-working spaces for the long-term stay people, the digital nomad concept for, a lot of digital nomads are actually freelancers. But now you see bankers coming away for six months. It's not just the freelancers. It's moved from techs to creatives, to consultants and to bankers. So it's a very wide spectrum of people that are actually taking advantage of a new way of working, but also very importantly, a new way of leisure. If anyone's thinking about coming to a place like Barbados on a visa like the Welcome Stamp visa, I am going to give you a quote that I was just given. This is an incredibly welcoming place. The community looks after newcomers. You're immediately brought into a community of very, very like-minded people. It is an incredible experience. Barbados not only has the Welcome Stamp. It also has the infrastructure around the Welcome Stamp...

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