PM Signals Willoughby Bay Expansion as Pensioners Beach Airbnb Lots Sell Out
Planning is under way to roll out a new phase of locally owned Airbnb investment at Willoughby Bay, Prime Minister Gaston Browne said Saturday, following the complete sell-out of similar lots at Pensioners Beach.
Speaking on Pointe FM’s Browne and Browne programme, Browne said the Willoughby Bay project will build on the success of Pensioners Beach, where all Airbnb investment lots have now been taken up.
“We’ll be doing the same thing at Willoughby Bay,” Browne said, describing the approach as a way to expand local participation in tourism ownership.
He said the Pensioners Beach project has been fully sold out, underscoring strong demand from Antiguans and Barbudans seeking to invest in short-term rental accommodation. “The Pensioners Beach lots are fully sold out,” Browne said.
Browne said the model allows ordinary citizens to own income-generating tourism assets, helping to spread the benefits of tourism more broadly across the population.
He linked the strong uptake to the continued growth of Airbnb accommodation, which he said has become a significant component of the tourism sector and offers a relatively accessible entry point for local investors.
The prime minister said the government intends to replicate the Pensioners Beach model at Willoughby Bay, using land development and targeted concessions to encourage local ownership rather than concentrating investment among large external operators.
He said expanding local participation in tourism remains a key pillar of the government’s economic empowerment strategy.
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Whatever became of the Grand African Village with Malls filled with luxury villas and high end stores like in Dubai? These pie in the sky promises by the ABLP Cabal of gangsters.
Willoughby Bay Area should be meticulously excavated by Anthropologists to secure it artifact buried there.
The area was originally named BRIDGETOWN by the British as one of their first trading post on the island.
The was flooded by a Tsunami/Tidalwave.
It’s historic and should not be treated like it’s irrelevant all for the sake of securing election votes to prop up the ABLP CABAL.
The area is vital to history of the Nation.
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
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Vere Edwards
Plenty people have money and don’t want to invest. Invest people! I f I had money I would. Great initiative.