Category: Hotel News

Grand Bahama’s unemployment rate could now be in the region of 25 percent, following the Our Lucaya Beach and Golf Resort’s layoff of 200 staff members on Friday, charges the island’s Chamber of Commerce President Peter Turnquest.
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Both the Minister for Labour and the head of the Bahamas Hotel Managerial Association confirmed yesterday that they met with executives from the Our Lucaya Golf and Beach Resort in separate meetings on Tuesday, ahead of today’s anticipated announcement that around 200 workers will be terminated from the hotel property.
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Huge quantities of Bahamian-grown vegetables are being shipped fresh into the e-mail inboxes of hoteliers, restaurants, chefs and wholesalers on a weekly basis as part of a new promotional effort by the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC) and the Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA).
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Spring visitor arrivals for The Bahamas are looking upwards, according to Minister of Tourism Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, who noted that tourism numbers will surpass those recorded during the same period last year.
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Costing $3.4 billion to develop, the Baha Mar resort at Cable Beach five miles west of Nassau on New Providence in The Bahamas bills itself as the largest single-phase resort development anywhere on the planet.

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An 80- to 100-room boutique hotel expansion is being planned for the Bimini Bay Resort and Marina, with developer RockResorts eyeing a 2014 opening for the hotel and amenities to come on stream by summer.
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Savings of $7 million resulting from the new U.S. departures terminal coming in under budget will go a long way in reducing the need for additional airport fee increases. The industry has seen fees increase nearly 20 percent in the last three years.
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THE opening of the new US departures terminal at the redeveloped Lynden Pindling Airport will have an “immediate impact” on the growth and development of the tourism industry, said Robert Sands, former president of the Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) and senior vice president of administration and external affairs at Baha Mar.
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The lesson when it comes to planning a mega resort complex should be simple: Before you break ground, get the financing in place. But as many developers have found out — Lake Las Vegas comes to mind — it’s not always easy.

One success story, though, appears to be Baha Mar.

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