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NEWS IMPACT CARIBBEAN Grace Bay Club Expands Horizons; Resorts Offer Incentives Joe Pike Million Dollar Suite at Sandals Regency La Toc Grace Bay Club to Venture Outside Turks and Caicos The Grace Bay Club (www. gracebayclub.com), made famous by its three Turks and Caicos properties, will expand to other destinations in the Caribbean for the first time in the luxe company’s history. We met representatives of the company this past month and learned of plans for new properties adjacent to its existing resorts in Turks and Caicos, but were more intrigued by its plans to expand to other Caribbean hot spots. Mark Durliat, CEO and developer for the Grace Bay Club, told Travel Agent that the company would begin an expansion that CONNECTING YOU For the latest scoop on what’s happening in the Caribbean, visit www.travelagent central.com/caribbean will call for a maximum of 10 additional properties in the next 10 years. It will build two new properties adjacent to the existing Grace Bay Club, which comprises the Hotel at Grace Bay Club, the Villas at Grace Bay Club and the soon-to-open The Estate at Grace Bay Club. Those new properties will begin groundbreaking in about a year, with completion expected in about three years. Furthermore, the luxury brand is in preliminary discussions with two undisclosed spots in the Dominican Republic and has also eyed at least one property in the Eastern Caribbean. Grace Bay Club is looking to set up shop in Antigua, Grenada and St. Lucia. All three can potentially be sites of Grace Bay Club resorts, but representatives told us that as of press time, negotiations have begun with just one of those three. Other plans call for moving the product into Latin America, with a resort in Costa Rica (see page 40 for details). Caribbean Resorts Offer Flight Incentives It wasn’t long ago that Travel Agent attended the Annual Caribbean Tourism Summit in Washington, D.C., and heard officials plead for the region to offer flight incentives in response to rising fuel costs. Since then, several operators and hotels, most notably Sandals Resorts (www.sandals.com), have stepped up to the plate. “We are extremely happy about the aggressiveness and enthusiasm in which our members, both of the private and public sector, are trying to offer ways to make traveling to the Caribbean even more attractive,” Hugh Riley, co-chief operating officer of the Caribbean Tourism and Development Company, told Travel Agent. Sandals launched a “Fly Free Promotion” this past month, in which clients can qualify for a $550 air credit (see page 44 for details), while the destination of Bonaire launched a new program called “Paradise Rebates,” which allows Caribbean travelers to recoup additional airline baggage fees with rebates and coupons, accessible online at www.paradiserebates.com. Although now expired, Delta Vacations recently offered a $200 “Instant Air Credit” deal on all air-inclusive bookings of four nights or longer to Nassau/Paradise Island, Bahamas. These are just a few signs that Caribbean suppliers are aware that something has to be done to make up for rising fuel costs and the anticipation of suspended flights by American Airlines and American Eagle. John Lynch, executive vice president of Unique Vacations, worldwide representatives of Sandals and Beaches Resorts, expects Caribbean tourism “to take a hit for years to come” due to fuel costs and a weak U.S. economy. “I don’t know when things will return to normal, or if they ever will,” Lynch told us. “Until fuel costs go down, travel to the Caribbean is going to suffer.” — JOE PIKE 66 | TravelAgent August 4, 2008 http://www.paradiserebates.com http://www.paradiserebates.com http://www.gracebayclub.com http://www.gracebayclub.com http://www.sandals.com http://www.travelagentcentral.com/caribbean http://www.travelagentcentral.com/caribbean

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