Business View Caribbean | October 2019

24 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN OCTOBER 2019 often overlooked as suppliers since they’re not delivering milk or eggs. They are a crucial part of the tourist product.” On the “green” front, Antigua banned plastic bags some years before other Caribbean countries and they are going to be banning Styrofoam. Carlisle Bay doesn’t use Styrofoam in the resort, it does use paper straws on request, and if you want a take-out coffee or to take a dish from the restaurant down to the beach, the hotel has biodegradable containers. In addition, Sukamaran is currently researching water bottling systems. She acknowledges, “We are still using bottled water and we realize that has to change. So, I’m planning, in 2020, on bringing in our own water bottling system, whereby we filter the water we have naturally here in Antigua and put it in glass bottles for our guests, which then get reused here. I’ve used this system in other hotels, so I know how it operates and it’s extremely good. There are two excellent companies we’re looking at; I was just researching the cost implications. Generally, it saves a lot of money when you don’t have to buy