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Port-au-Prince is experiencing a building boom in luxury hotels.
Is high-end hotel development a good thing for Haiti? Reporter Amy Bracken will be answering your questions and responding to your comments below until 9 p.m. EST on Monday, Nov. 25.
There is the Royal Oasis, which bills itself as Haiti’s first five-star hotel. The general manager, Jean-Marc Rousseau, shows me a suite with two rooms, two TVs, and a dramatic view of the mountains. I notice a gleaming white building below. “It is The Rancho,” he says. “Our new competitor.”
The El Rancho is another luxury hotel — an old, long-closed hotel rebuilt and expanded under new ownership. With fountains and a pool, it looks like a whitewashed Arabian estate. The place has just had a soft opening, the suites with cocktail party-sized balconies on special at $400 a night.
And then, up the road, there’s the Best Western Premier. It has a bar at one end of the lobby and a spa at the other, where you can indulge in heated stone massage, body waxing, and reflexology. This is the first American hotel chain to operate in Haiti in 15 years, soon to be followed by a Marriott and a Hilton.
Business Rationale
Kesner Pharel, a Haitian economist and investor in the Oasis, says one reason for all these new hotels is simple. “After the earthquake, we had so many people coming to work in Haiti, and there was no room.”
But consumer demand is not the only driver of this building spree. The Haitian government has been encouraging it as a way to develop the country economically.
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Does Haiti really need luxury hotels?
It has been a long slog to recovery after Haiti's earthquake almost four years ago. Thousands remain in provisional housing of plywood, tarps, and corrugated metal. New lodging is being created ...
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