Sandals Resorts Worldwide will probably be creating a brand new Seashores resort on Exuma. Sandals Govt Chairman Adam Stewart mentioned yesterday that the three.8 common visitors per room for a Seashores resort will imply far more airlift and extra alternatives for Exuma and Exumians. The brand new resort will exchange the now closed Sandals Emerald Bay property.
“There will probably be extra seats and higher demand. It will result in extra development,” mentioned Stewart. “Taxis, tour operators, farmers, and fishers will all profit, leading to elevated consumption. This implies extra employment alternatives, extra overseas direct funding, and better tax revenues—primarily, extra financial exercise total. It’s a win for everybody.”
Stewart emphasised the individuality of this initiative, stating, “We’re positioning this as a product that at the moment doesn’t exist in The Bahamas or throughout the Sandals portfolio. After we got here in 2010, we decided that the Sandals model was the simplest strategy to put Exuma on the mainstream map.”
He added, “This was the best selection. Our founder, my father, and I deliberated for years about finally changing the lodge to Seashores. After the Davis administration took workplace, we had an preliminary assembly with the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister the place we mentioned our technique. Since then, we’ve invested over $100 million in reworking Sandals Royal Bahamian, together with some funding in Fowl Cay. We introduced our long-term imaginative and prescient to transform it to Seashores.
Seashores caters to households, whereas Sandals is an adults-only model. We imagine that enhancing the marina, the Greg Norman golf course, and including a water park will higher serve the Exuma group and align with Sandals Resorts Worldwide’s aim of increasing its Seashores choices.”
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Stewart additionally talked about that Seashores Emerald Bay will be a part of a collection of latest Seashores resorts being developed in Jamaica, Turks and Caicos, and one other location he has but to reveal.
Stewart expressed gratitude to the federal government for his or her energetic function in making the Seashores property a actuality. “It’s a pleasure to put money into the islands of The Bahamas,” he acknowledged. He added that they intention to place the development of the brand new resort out to tender by the top of the yr, with plans to open 12 to fifteen months after building begins.
