Bay Gardens Resorts

Business View Caribbean 9 clusive, one that is extremely rare. You don’t often see hotels willing to share a portion of their all-inclusive revenues with anybody; they want to keep the guests in-house as much as possible. But we pay those res- taurants to take the guests on for that night. It offers the guest more variety – there are Indian restaurants, Chinese restaurants, sushi, tapas, steak and seafood, French - all kinds of different cuisine from the eight restaurants that we partner with. And it’s working exceedingly well. We’re putting tens of thousands of dollars into the hands of these restaurants that have otherwise would not have gotten anything.” As a final touch, Destang says that Bay Gardens offers comple- mentary transport to any of its partner restaurants, upon request. These synergistic relationships are what Destang would like to see continue in whatever form they might best appear. “It’s a different model of tourism,” he says, “partnering with other restaurants and local farmers in the case of our agricultural initiative through the SL- HTA. It’s more of a collaborative approach as opposed to a competitive one where I have to succeed at your expense. It’s not necessarily like that. And we’ve seen that we can have a win-win situation where everybody benefits.” From a new water park, to a new citizenship program, to a new trade association initiative, and on to an in- novative guest dining-plan, it’s obviously been another busy year at Bay Gardens, as well as its neighbors and business partners on the island. And with Sanovnik Destang at the Bay Gardens and SLHTA helms, this coming year is likely to be no different. PREFERRED VENDORS Rainforest Seafoods - www.rainforestseafoods.com Trans Caribbean 2000 Ltd. - www.facebook.com/ transcaribbean2000