In foreign exchange-not an insignificant amount in a country where Based on anĪverage $900 expenditure per tourist, that means an extra $225 million With a total of 5,400 permanent employees,' up from the currentĪccording to Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, director-general of theīahamas Ministry of Tourism, the expanded Atlantis will pull in anĪdditional 250,000 stopover visitors a year to the Bahamas.
'We're looking at an $800 million investment, 'This is probably the biggest private construction project theīahamas has ever seen,' says Timothy Brown, the company's That would dwarf any other hotel in the Caribbean, and itsįifty-thousand-square-foot casino would be the largest in the world
Kerzner, is spending $450 million to more than double the size of itsĮxisting 1,138-room Atlantis Paradise Island resort to over 2,300 rooms. Sun International Bahamas, aĬonsortium controlled by South African multimillionaire investor Sol Of land just over the bridge from Nassau. Resorts is rapidly rising on Paradise Island, an eight-hundred-acre spit What's being billed as one of the world's largest island 1998 Organization of American States 28 Dec. MLA style: 'Raising Atlantis?.' The Free Library.
