{"id":36402,"date":"2013-06-05T22:56:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=36402"},"modified":"2013-06-05T22:56:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:56:30","slug":"rahming-im-worried-about-baha-mar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/06\/rahming-im-worried-about-baha-mar","title":{"rendered":"Rahming: &#8216;I&#8217;m Worried About Baha Mar&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/06\/rahming-im-worried-about-baha-mar-36402.html\/bahamar-4\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36407\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36407\" title=\"bahamar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bahamar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bahamar.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bahamar-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bahamar-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>A well-known architect is \u201cworried\u201d about the $2.6 billion Baha Mar project\u2019s prospects for success, arguing that its casino was not an \u201cattraction base\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding on his argument that the Bahamas has failed to define its tourism product.<\/p>\n<p>Pat Rahming told Tribune Business that \u201cno single casino\u201d had the ability to act as an \u2018attraction\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Baha Mar\u2019s Cable Beach redevelopment has at its core a casino-centric model, with the developers frequently touting it as the largest facility of its kind in the Caribbean region.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Mr Rahming told The Tribune: &#8220;I\u2019m worried about Baha Mar. I don\u2019t see the attraction base, but that\u2019s a personal thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey think the attraction base is a 100,000 square foot casino. My observation is that there is no single casino anywhere that is an attraction today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comparing Baha Mar, and the Bahamas, to major gaming destinations such as Las Vegas and Macau, Mr Rahming said these locations were \u2018 place attractions\u2019 due to the critical mass generated by multiple casino operators &#8211; not just one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt amazed me that when I went to Macau and looked at 21 casinos, where can a single casino turn into an attraction,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Calling on the Bahamas to stop altering its tourism \u2018brand\u2019 every few years, Mr Rahming used an analogy to explain why &#8211; in his eyes &#8211; so many hotels in this nation ended up failing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have a creek for the bonefish, you have a place to fish. Put some rooms there, and you have a fishing resort,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have some mountains, you have a place to go skiing. Put some rooms there, and you have a ski resort. If you\u2019ve got a beach, a beautiful white sandy beach, you have a place to go swimming. Put some rooms there, and you have a beach resort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason most resorts in the Bahamas fail is they never find out what the attraction is that their decision to have a resort is based on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Neil Hartnell<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Tribune Business Editor<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribune242.com\/news\/2013\/jun\/05\/worried-about-baha-mar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Original News Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A well-known architect is \u201cworried\u201d about the $2.6 billion Baha Mar project\u2019s prospects for success. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[27,153,178],"class_list":["post-36402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-baha-mar","tag-business-2","tag-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}