A Bahamas resort is celebrating international success at the World Travel Awards as introducing several new initiatives, including free and fly customers to bring travel agents to the 1500 islands.

Sandals is one of only three Bahamian interests to reap awards at the prestigious event in London, took the title of the Caribbean’s leading hotel brand.

On February 11 episode of “The Martha Stewart Show,” which “Sandals by Martha Stewart Wedding” contest grand prize winner will be announced. Winners will receive customized destination wedding dream created by Martha Stewart in the team Sandal Emerald Bay, Great Exuma, Bahamas.

The package also includes a Luxury Included stay for the bride six-day/five-night at Sandals Emerald Bay; four-day/three-night including a luxury for 10 guests staying at Sandals Emerald Bay; plus tickets shuttle for the bride and men, and all 10 guests.

Wedding will be filmed and shown on “The Martha Stewart Show” and in Martha Stewart Weddings magazine. Couples who wish to enter the contest, which ran through January 20 www.marthastewartweddings.com can go wherever they will be invited to submit 90-second video explaining why they should win the customized Sandals by Martha Stewart Weddings

As a new Sandals Resort at Emerald Bay Exuma preparing to open the door, the government is looking for ways to help you with transport hotel guests to the island, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has been revealed.

“There will be additional airlift coming into Exuma,” Ingraham said when he visited the site on Monday. “The Ministry of Tourism will help Sandals in supporting additional airlift from the United States and from other places, perhaps Canada, to ensure that we have a reasonable level of occupancy at all times.”

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Grand Opening Sale. Save up to 50% for travel to the January 22nd Grand Opening of this new resort. New Resort: Sandals Emerald Bay, Great Exuma, Bahamas.Like a grand place, Sandal Emerald Bay is a 500 acre resort set along a mile of white sand beach at Emerald Bay, Great Exuma, Bahamas. This all-suite resort will offer a choice of 190 “grand-appointed,” all the ocean beaches, luxury-style accommodation ranging from beach villas to charming bay home settings. Unique to Great Exuma stunning property with a 18-hole Greg Norman-designed golf course, known as the best in the Caribbean and the 17-acre, standing alone by the Emerald Bay Marina Sandal, for the first time the marina for each Sandals Resort

Year so far not good Caribbean resort, but that did not stop the opening of hotels in the region. Here is a Travel Agent’s vote for your clients to the Islands, some are open, someone else on the horizon, reflagged or rebuilt from scratch.

Sandals Great Exuma
Unique sandals Emerald Bay, Great Exuma, is a 18-hole Greg Norman-designed golf

Sandal Emerald Bay, Great Exuma
www.sandals.com
Great Exuma, Bahamas
Opening January 22, 2010.

Who should pitch to: As with all Sandals Resorts, Sandals Emerald Bay is intended for two people falling in love-if they were celebrating their wedding with the signature “Weddingmoon”; enjoying their honeymoon; renew their promise, or just go for a romantic vacation.

Best Rooms: All 190 suites are impressive, but go with Beachfront Villas because of space they offer. But if not the character in your priorities, each room will do. Each room overlooks the ocean beach and all served by butlers trained by the Sandals Resorts company through an exclusive partnership with the Guild of Professional English Butler.

1. Travel off-season. Mid-April until mid-December is the Caribbean low season, when the first berth in the whole region the tariffs 30 percent or more, hissing offers savings to those who do not need the threat of a snowstorm to inspire an island stopover.

The best deals, however, was found at hotels which shaved 50 percent off high season.

In Anguilla, 27-room sitting in my hotel one of the best beaches in the Caribbean and produce prices starting from $ 315. But the hotel posts summer rates starting from $ 180, through December 19 (I-anguilla.com).

That is to say, this winter – like the last one – not the norm, and usually expensive resorts have started rolling out the transaction, a sure sign that advance bookings for the peak season are lagging.

Elite Island Resorts, which operates the hotel at the price points varying in Antigua, Tortola, St. Lucia and Palm Island in the Grenadines, offering on-the-board 20 percent discount to stay in January, 10 percent in February, and 30 percent in March. Seven night minimum required, and rooms must be booked by February 1 (eliteislandresorts.com/2010).

2. Transactions in the sky. Amanda Hoffman of Expedia recommends looking for a plane ticket on Tuesday night. “Most airlines post their agreement on Tuesday morning and the evening on other airlines have the opportunity to match them,” he said.

The Sandals resort chain aims to increase tourism to the Bahamas in 1500 brought the nation’s travel agents during the six-week period that lasted until mid-November, it spent one night at the Royal Bahamian Resort & Spa.Travel agents visiting the Bahamas as part of the resort chain’s Mega FAM initiative, launched earlier this year and is designed to familiarize the sector with what Sandal and this nation should offer their clients.

There are 10 opportunities for different agents to visit the Sandals Royal Bahamian Resort. As an added bonus for agents to participate in one of 10 travel schedule this fall, they will have the opportunity to tour Turks and Caicos Beach Resort Village and Spa, spent one night at the Turks & Caicos, and one night in the Bahamas.