EDITORIAL
Protecting the Budget End of Stay-Over Tourism
Thursday, June 17, 2004
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Reader comments:
- It seems a shame to take a prime location such as Treasure Island Resort
which would have everything to offer a vacationer on the island. (With
wonderful access to the ocean - which is one of the greatest assets the
Cayman Islands have to offer tourists.) I cannot believe there isn't another
property the Ritz could use for their workers. I own a condo at Treasure
Island and since the workers have been there when I pull into the parking
lot I see clothes strung out on the balconies - which I feel looks terrible.
Even if this was a lower room rate hotel we never had clothes and junk
decorating the outside of the hotel. Is this the impression the Cayman
Islands wants to give the arriving visitors? I strongly feel, as a condo
owner, that prime beachfront should be used for the visitors to enjoy not as
a housing unit - Louise Eiynck
- I don't think any sensible company would want to purchase Treasure
Island to use it as a resort. It would take too high an investment to bring
it to a level in which it could compete, and could charge, as much as the
other resorts on the same stretch of sand. It is my opinion that the
property would probably be best sold to the Saint Matthews medical school. A
few years from now, when they have slowly fixed it up and created a
university system that the whole island could be proud of, we could at least
have another draw for people from the outside to invest here in Cayman.
Also, it would be nice to have a medical school, a good general university
and the law school here on the island. Maybe then Caymanians wouldn’t have
to leave to receive a decent college education - Jerome Bush
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