Business View Caribbean | October 2019

23 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN OCTOBER 2019 group business. With a Sales Manager who works, specifically, in the States, Carlisle Bay’s group business is now 25 percent of its U.S. revenue. A corporate group of up to 200 people can have a buyout of the entire property; because the resort is small, they can have it exclusively. Usually, a corporate stay is for a period of four to five nights. Sukamaran reports, “Our U.S. Sales Manager hands over the group business to our Events Manager, who exclusively looks after all the groups coming in, as well as any local corporate business that we can drive on the ground in Antigua by networking with local companies. We have a really beautiful conference room here. The Events Manager also goes after the local wedding market, and is in charge of local marketing of our other facilities, such as our beautiful motor yacht, our spa, and our restaurants. In that regard, I’d like to give a broad shout-out to all our local suppliers – people who come in and provide entertainment, as well as our tourist attractions, because we get 100 percent amazing feedback on what they do but they’re ISLAND PROVISION GROUP Island Provision Food Distribution • Best Cellars Wines and Spirits • Gourmet Basket Supermarket Your One Stop Provisioning Powerhouse Located on the Sir George H. Walter Highway, near St. John's and the V.C. Bird International Airport (268) 480-5151 | www.island-provision.com | info@islandprovision.biz CARL I SLE BAY RESORT