Ti Kaye Village - New Tourism Property Opening in March

Contact: Rose Marie Harris

Friday, February 16, 2001 – The island’s tourism industry is set to boast a "new kid on the block". Come the end of March this year, Ti Kaye Village will open its doors to its first guests.

Located at Anse Cochon on St. Lucia’s west coast, the new property will add twenty-six rooms to the island’s accommodation stock. The twenty six "Ti Kaye" are set up as individual cottages each with air conditioned rooms, king sized four-poster beds and ceiling fans. Some will feature plunge pools. When operational, Ti Kaye Village will also offer water sports, a fitness centre, massage therapist and a variety of vacation and honeymoon packages.

The resort is the dream of Nicholas Pinnock, who expects the resort to complement St. Lucia’s tourism offerings. "Apart from the fact that I am adding to the total number of rooms on the island I think what places Ti Kaye very strategically in the hotel sector is where we are located. Most of the tourism development in this island is in the north. When you come down the West Coast, you don’t really find much between Marigot and Soufriere. We have been able to sort of point the way hopefully for other people and show them yes, development can take place along the West Coast," Pinnock said.

Throughout its construction stages the project has generated employment for a number of persons in the villages of Anse La Raye and Canaries and environs. This, according to Pinnock will continue when the resort opens. "We are looking mainly for people from the areas surrounding us. That makes a lot of logistical sense because they are close by and … we are trying to help out by providing employment opportunities for Anse La Raye and Canaries and all the settlements between," he added.

Ti Kaye Village is one of seven hotel development projects that either have begun or will begin construction this year. Among them is the first phase of the 463-room Troumassee Hotel Resort Project in Micoud.

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