St. Maarten Private Eye

At the request of Commissioner Roy Marlin of the Government of the Island Territory of St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, (email address rmarlin@sintmaarten.net ) the design and development team of The Constellation Condominium Resort at Gibbs Bay – Red Pond Estate St Maarten, has prepared this initial and provisional outline of potential opportunities for St. Maarten Entrepreneur Partners

Constellation Resort Opportunities

I am sad to say that even though tourism is the driving force of the economy of our island that helped developed the island. It is this same development that will eventually choke and sufficate our tourism and result in the downfall of our economy. The reason why I say this is because we have to ask our selves several questions: Why does tourists in general come to St. Maarten and the rest of the caribbean? Do we meet up to what they are expecting from us when they visit our island? Will we still maintain it when we continue developing our island.
The answer in general to the first question is because they choose to be in a different climate, a tropical environment to get away from the hassle and congestion of large country/city lives. We used to be more a tropical escape for tourists. But if we open our eyes we will see that we are slowly starting to resemble the big cities they are trying to get away from in order to relax. Our population is high without even including the number of illegals living on our island. Our green landscape and hillsides are vanishing, and important breeding and nesting areas for animals both on land and in the water are disappearing.
Lots of people would probably not agree with me, but I feel St. Maarten has already reached its capacity to the amount of tourists we can attend to. If we want more tourists that means we have to expand our infrastructure in order to cater to them at the cost of sacrificing landscape, the very thing people come visit our island for.
We develop new hotels, villas and such and we alter the way the landscape operates. A good example would be drainage of rain water.
If we, the people of St. Maarten don't finally agree that enough is enough and join together to put an end to any further development of our island just for sole the intention on making more money, we will nothing left of beautiful sweet St. Maarten to share with both our tourists and our childeren. This is our island we are talking about

Here comes another construction project in Gibbs Bay.

Marriott Renaissance Constellation Resort