Nevis Hotel Owners Optimistic About Tourism Trade

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Nevis Hotel Bookings Are Down, But Not Spirits

Charlestown, Nevis
November 25, 2008
By Anna Gaskell
Observer Staff Writer

No one’s expecting a good year. Least of all the hotels.
 
Election year in the United States has kept many American tourists at home. The global economic recession has many people cutting back on their spending, including travel spending. To some people on Nevis, the closure of Four Seasons after Hurricane Omar feels like our very own economic recession.
 
And yet, despite admitting that this will be a slower season than average, many hotel owners are optimistic. The manager of Nevis’s Golden Rock Inn, Pam Barry, thinks that soon “people will get tired of hearing about the recession.”

Hoteliers also say that this slower time gives St. Kitts and Nevis a chance to sit back and re-evaluate. Tourism in the federation could come out stronger.
 
There are different predictions as to how many seasons will be affected; one, two, or even three. And how bad will it be? They just don’t know yet. Marty Lowell, one of the owners of Ottley’s in St. Kitts, said that when it came to predictions, he was “more likely to be right about predicting the next power cut in St. Kitts.”

Even the already confirmed bookings are not a decisive marker of how the season will go; every year bookings become more and more last minute. If the flights are there, people will keep coming, says Mrs. Barry of Golden Rock Hotel.
 
American Airlines stopped coming to Nevis this year, and XL Airways terminated their London-St. Kitts charter. But flights to the federation have actually increased, according to John Yearwood of Nevis’s Oualie Beach Hotel. British Airways decided it would be a good business move to take up where XL Airways left off, beginning the first ever scheduled flights from London to St. Kitts in January.

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Nevis Premier And PM Douglas View Omar Damage

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St. Kitts – Nevis PM Hopes Four Seasons Resort To Open Soon

Four Seasons Resort Nevis - Hurricane Damage

Four Seasons Resort Nevis – Hurricane Damage

Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
October 20, 2008 (CUOPM)

St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas said his Federal Government will work with the Nevis Island Administration to ensure that the Four-Seasons Resort becomes operational within the quickest possible time.

Prime Minister Douglas accompanied by the Premier of Nevis, Hon. Joseph Parry toured several areas on Nevis affected by the passage of Hurricane Omar.

“We have to wait and see the full assessment of the damage to the Four Seasons. One thing that was very, very clear when we toured with the general manager, is that he had quite a bit of hope and expressed the desire for the management to get back the hotel as quickly as possible to a state of normalcy,” said Prime Minister Douglas at a post tour press conference.

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