Business View Caribbean | May 2021

25 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN MAY 2021 R HOTEL K INGSTON nasty emails, and the team has bought into this concept and do their best to make sure there is mutual respect across the board. As a result most of them stay and enjoy being here.” BVC: What do you see on the horizon for R Hotel? Pike: “Looking to the future, we’re bringing in the butler service and those rooms will be ‘smart rooms’ as well, with the latest technology. And we are looking to expand the R Hotel brand and the District 5 restaurant concept to different areas of Jamaica and the Caribbean. We are currently building everything as a model and documenting it as we go; creating a manual for this brand. It’s fully Jamaican owned and we’re really pushing to build on it as we go forward. “Our goal is to become #1 on TripAdvisor, we also want to expand this current property by purchasing the lot next door, so we can create