Business View Caribbean | October 2019

29 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN OCTOBER 2019 Travellers Readers’ Choice Award as a Top Resort in the region for 2016, 2017, 2018 - as for 2019, we’re working on it. Caribbean Journal and Caribbean Travel Awards recognized us as the Number One Small Hotel in the Caribbean. That was pretty impressive. In 2017, I was recognized as the Bahamas Hotelier of the Year by the Ministry of Tourism and the Bahamas Hotel & Tourism Association. I received a Cacique Hotelier of the Year for that. The Caribbean Hotel Tourism Association (CHTA), of which I am a Director, just recognized Valentines as the Number One in Sales and Marketing Caribbean 2018 at their annual general meeting in Miami – the Caribbean Hotel Industry Exchange Forum (CHIEF). Those are a few things we’ve achieved. “I’ve come up with a wonderful marketing campaign, called “The Heartbeat of Harbour Island.” Of course, it’s a play on the word, Valentines. Because we’re centrally located on Harbour Island, we’re likely the busiest hotel here, people-wise. And we take walk-ins, which a lot of the other hotels don’t, so that gives us an advantage. And our VALENT INES RES IDENCES , RESORT & MAR INA