Business View Caribbean | March 2021

67 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN MARCH 2021 DELF INS BEACH RESORT seen that happen in one week. The behavior of our guests is that they now wait until the very last minute before booking and then they come. Fortunately, many have chosen Delfins Beach Resort, so we still had quite a good occupancy in comparison to the rest of the island. Many of the other resorts, entirely dependent on the American market, have just closed.” Top of the agenda moving forward is marketing the resort for conferences and adding a new restaurant. “Offering packaged deals for the conferences will be my first target for the upcoming year,” says Rietveld. “We’d really like to have the disabled divers visit and enjoy the rooms we made; we will start marketing that too by, hopefully, end of the year. I’m not anticipating a lot of travel from the United States before then.” That isn’t all Rietveld is planning. In the next two to three years the goal is to develop the last part of Delfins. He shares, “We’re currently working on a concept for a luxurious part of the terrain. I think we will market it differently, but it will still be at the resort. It will offer butler service and potentially cost $700 to $1,000 per night with rooms that are exclusively luxurious, having everything – even a personal chef.” In the meantime, Rietveld will continue thinking creatively to ensure Delfins Beach Resort is the dream destination that, “people want to come to Bonaire and enjoy.”