Hotelier Paul Doyle, who wants to get his hands on the soon-to-be-closed Almond Beach Village, is no fan of all-inclusive hotels and says they are not what Barbados needs.
Doyle, owner of the luxury Crane Hotel in St Philip, said the island should push for high-spending tourists, particularly during this recessionary period when foreign exchange was at a premium.
Furthermore, he charged that all-inclusives could represent a race to the bottom in terms of room rates, and more of those hotels could damage the Barbados brand’s exclusivity.
Almond Beach Village is an all-inclusive operation.
Doyle, however, told Barbados business authority that his comments were not an indictment of another competitor for Almond – Jamaican Gordon “Butch” Stewart, who runs one of the Caribbean’s most successful all-inclusive operations.
Read the full story in today’s BARBADOS BUSINESS AUTHORITY.
