{"id":6481,"date":"2011-02-21T09:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T14:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=6481"},"modified":"2011-02-21T09:44:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T14:44:51","slug":"sandals-not-concerned-about-baha-mar-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/02\/sandals-not-concerned-about-baha-mar-competition","title":{"rendered":"Sandals Not Concerned About Baha Mar Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon &#8220;Butch&#8221; Stewart is confident that his Sandals Royal Bahamian resort will hold firm against the expected competition from newcomer Baha Mar.<\/p>\n<p>Baha Mar\u2019s official ground breaking and pending opening has not sprung fears of market oversaturation from the Sandals chief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The more, the merrier in my view,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I pay no attention&#8230; I move my product. If it&#8217;s good for The Bahamas, it&#8217;s good for Sandals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sandals reported a 20 percent year-on-year increase in occupancy for the month of February, with officials asserting future bookings looked just as promising.<\/p>\n<p>This is in direct contrast to remarks made by Atlantis CEO Sol Kerzner, who last year said that the Baha Mar development could &#8220;cannibalise&#8221; the high-end tourism market, eating into Atlantis&#8217; revenues and threatening Bahamian jobs at the resort.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Sol suggested that the massive development be launched in stages to ensure a healthier, more stable tourism market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon &#8220;Butch&#8221; Stewart is confident that his Sandals Royal Bahamian resort will hold firm against the expected competition from newcomer Baha Mar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[109,27,33],"class_list":["post-6481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-atlantis","tag-baha-mar","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}