Bahamas Villas
A destination for the stars, one of the most luxuourious and attractive nations on the planet. Gorgeous sandy beaches, tropical weather, a tourist centre of the western hemisphere. You can find some of the most beautiful and glamourous villas in the Bahamas.
The Villas can fetch millions of dollars by the sea. Often they contain a private dock. and luxurious garden. Golf course are scattered over the commonwealth.
One of the most exclusive locations is Millionaire Row, Freeport, Bahamas. Freeport is a city and free trade zone on the island of Grand Bahama, located approximately 100 mi (160 km) east-northeast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and is a district of the Bahamas. Tourism complements trade as a revenue earner in Freeport, with over a million visitors each year. Much of the tourist industry is centered on the seaside suburb of Lucaya, owing its name (but little else) to the pre-Columbian Lucayan inhabitants of the island.
By the middle of the 20th century, Grand Bahama's population numbered around 500 and the island was one of the least developed of the Bahamas islands. However the island finally gained a stable source of income when in 1955 a Virginian financier named Wallace Groves began redevelopment with the Bahamian government to build the city of Freeport under the Hawksbill Creek Agreement and create the Grand Bahama Port Authority Soon after, the ambitious Edward St. George, with the financial help of Sir Jack Hayward, took the company to new frontiers. Seeing the success of Cuba as a tourist destination for wealthy Americans, St. George was eager to develop Grand Bahama in a similar vein. The city grew rapidly, with St. George adding a harbour, an airport (the largest privately owned airport in the world) soon after the city was founded, and the tourist center of Port Lucaya in 1962. Grand Bahama became the second most populous island in the Bahamas (over 50,000 in 2004).
Lyford Cay is a private gated community in the Bahamas.
Lucaya is a suburb of Freeport, Bahamas a city on the Island of Grand Bahama approximately 100 mi (160 km) east-northeast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Lucaya's Primary Industry is tourism.
Major hotels and attractions in the resort are the Our Lucaya resort, Pelican Bay Hotel and the UNEXSO dive charter operation. Our Lucaya is managed by Starwood Hotels with both their Sheraton and Westin brands represented on the property.
UNEXSO was the first destination dive charter business in the world and now features a dolphinarium as well as a variety of SCUBA diving charters including shark feeding dives.
Port Lucaya is a popular spring
break destination with the socializing centering on Count Basie Square
VIPs
who have lived the Commonwealth have included Sean Connery - who has owned a property
in Lyford Cay;
Nicolas Cage - Has Owned a private island in the Exuma chains.
Shakira Mebarak;
Sidney Poitier.
It is a desitnation which has been visited by many of the greatest vips over the recent centrues due to its location closeot the USA. Hollywood stars and US statesman have used it for glamourous vacations.
A major contribution to the recent growth in the overall Bahamian economy is Kerzner International's Atlantis Resort and Casino.
The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is a North American, English-speaking country consisting of two thousand cays and seven hundred islands that form an archipelago. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida and the US, north of Cuba, the island of Hispanola and the Caribbean, and northwest of the British overseas territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1717. Some 8,000 American Loyalists and their slaves moved to the Bahamas after 1783 from New York, Florida and the Carolinas. Slavery was abolished in the British Empire on August 1, 1834. This led to many fugitive slaves from the US braving the perils of the Atlantic for the promise of a free life in the Bahamas.
The closest island to the US is Bimini, which is also known as the gateway to the Bahamas. The island of Abaco is to the east of Grand Bahama. The most southeastern island is Great Inagua. Other notable islands include the Bahamas' largest island, Andros Island, and Eleuthera, Cat Island, Long Island, San Salvador Island, Acklins, Crooked Island, Exuma and Mayaguana. Nassau, the Bahamas capital city, lies on the island of New Providence.
The climate of the Bahamas is subtropical to tropical, and is moderated significantly by the waters of the Gulf Stream, particularly in winter. The islands are low lying with an average elevation of only 10m. The Bahamas's currency is the Bahamian dollar, which is pegged to the US dollar.
Tourism is the nation's primary economic activity. In 1986 the World Bank reported that tourism directly and indirectly accounted for approximately 50 percent of employment. Tourism's share of the gross domestic product (GDP) was estimated at 70 percent by the United States Department of Commerce.
In
order to lessen the economy's dependency on tourism, the government has followed
a policy of diversification since the 1970s, emphasising development in the industrial
and agricultural sectors.
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