| Journal: TWUK | Section: |
| Title: | Issue Date: 06/11/00 |
| Author: | Page Number: 97 |
| Copyright: Other |
Bahamas
Ocean Club: the Versailles Gardens are a major attraction
Tourist chiefs dive into promoting new projects
THE Bahamas director general of tourism, Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, an old hand at World Travel Market, will be joined this year by minister of tourism Cornelius Smith.
Their main aim, along with the many private sector exhibitors, will be to reveal details of the myriad tourism projects taking place across the Bahamas.
There will be news in particular of Grand Bahama Island – now served by a direct JMC flight – where massive investment is taking place in the hotel sector.
Two of the latest hotel projects to be completed are the Old Bahama Bay, a residential, marina and resort community, which also includes a 47-room boutique hotel, and Our Lucaya, formerly the Lucayan Resort on Grand Bahama.
Our Lucaya is the largest and most expensive Caribbean property development to date at more than $400m. It boasts 1,350 rooms, two 18-hole golf courses, 14 restaurants, a spa, children’s centre, casino and marketplace.
Our Lucaya resort vice president Marco Nijhof, will be at WTM to answer questions.
On Paradise Island ,the luxurious Ocean Club, part of the Sun International group of hotels, has just reopened following a $50m renovation, adding 50 oceanfront rooms and a new championship golf course.
On Cat Island, one of the Out Islands, the Hawk’s Nest Resort and Marina has opened with its own dive operation, Dive Deep South, on the property.
Diving in the Bahamas, golf, swimming with dolphins and sharks, is to be given renewed emphasis next year by the tourist office, as well as golf.
With the addition of championship golf courses at Our Lucaya and the Ocean Club, the Bahamas can now claim to be one of the top golfing destinations in the Caribbean.
THE Bahamas director general of tourism, Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, an old hand at World Travel Market, will be joined this year by minister of tourism Cornelius Smith.
Their main aim, along with the many private sector exhibitors, will be to reveal details of the myriad tourism projects taking place across the Bahamas.
There will be news in particular of Grand Bahama Island – now served by a direct JMC flight – where massive investment is taking place in the hotel sector.
Two of the latest hotel projects to be completed are the Old Bahama Bay, a residential, marina and resort community, which also includes a 47-room boutique hotel, and Our Lucaya, formerly the Lucayan Resort on Grand Bahama.
Our Lucaya is the largest and most expensive Caribbean property development to date at more than $400m. It boasts 1,350 rooms, two 18-hole golf courses, 14 restaurants, a spa, children’s centre, casino and marketplace.
Our Lucaya resort vice president Marco Nijhof, will be at WTM to answer questions.
On Paradise Island ,the luxurious Ocean Club, part of the Sun International group of hotels, has just reopened following a $50m renovation, adding 50 oceanfront rooms and a new championship golf course.
On Cat Island, one of the Out Islands, the Hawk’s Nest Resort and Marina has opened with its own dive operation, Dive Deep South, on the property.
Diving in the Bahamas, golf, swimming with dolphins and sharks, is to be given renewed emphasis next year by the tourist office, as well as golf.
With the addition of championship golf courses at Our Lucaya and the Ocean Club, the Bahamas can now claim to be one of the top golfing destinations in the Caribbean.