Sell ​​a single destination. This is the ambition of the two parts of the island, gathered on Monday September 10 in the afternoon at the Oyster Bay Resort hotel.

Juliana Airport organized a press conference (Stakeholeders press conference) at Yster Bay Resort on Monday September 10, which was attended by the two tourist offices on the island represented by their directors, May-Ling Chun and Aida Weinum, the Minister of tourism of St Maarten Stuart Johnson, and Valérie Damaseau, president of the tourist office of Saint-Martin, and vice-president of the COM, as well as the representatives of the two airports, the port of Sint Maarten, the chambers of commerce and hotelier associations.

They presented some figures to draw up an inventory of the main tourism infrastructures on the island.

>> Accommodation

• Dutch side:

• Currently 34 hotel establishments (including Time Share) open

• 25 closed

• 7 plan to open in the last quarter

• 45 hotel establishments should be opened in the first quarter of 2019

• Reopening of Oyster Bay Beach Resort since June 1, 2018

• And from Divi Little Bay Beach Resort on May 12, 2018

• The Sonesta Ocean Pont should reopen on November 15, and that of Maho on February 1, 2019

• In the second quarter of 2018, the Dutch part had 1307 rooms, or 34% of its capacity, and 1453 in the third (37%). It should have 2168 in the last quarter (56%) and 2726 in the first quarter of 2019 (70%).

• It also has 75 villas for rent.

• The Sint Maarten tourist office has also identified 53 players offering excursions at sea and inland. • As well as 159 restaurants on the two parts of the island.

• French side

> Dates of reopening:

• The Plantation, October 15

• The Esplanade Hotel in early November

• Grand Case Beach Club, mid-November

• Esmeralda, November 1

• La Playa Hotel, December 10

• La Samanna Hotel, December 10

• The association of Saint-Maritn hoteliers plans 1035 rooms by the end of the year.

>> Airports

 Grand-Case - L'Espérance

- the hangar should be finished by the end of the year

- the airport recruited 17 people and therefore went from 23 to 40 employees

- The runway lighting has started and night flights should be able to start at the end of the year

Princess Juliana

Capacity of seats available per week in winter 2016-2017: 24 229

Against 10 currently

21 of 26 airlines returned (84%)

And four new ones have been added: Carriers Air Century, SlyHigh, SXM Airways, InterCaribbean

Number of flights per week

before Irma: 394

Number of flights per week by October 2018: 310 (78,7%)

>> Port of St Maarten

Between January 2018 and September 6, 2018, the port received 972 cruise passengers and expects to reach 000 million from Thursday, September 1

(Source: www.soualigapost.com)

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