A proposed tourism Village for the Bahamas.

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Bahamas Resort Village
The best of the Bahamas in one place.....

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Bahamas Resort Village
The vision is to have a combined, multifaceted Bahamian
tourism-based village. The basic idea is to have a resort that
caters to all of the tourism models that exist throughout the
Bahamas, in one Bahamian resort that is actually styled as a
Bahamian village and development. With having a scaled
down version of these within one resort styled village, not
only can guests explore the various different tourism
models in one place, but the Bahamas can set up workshops
to see how to advance and proliferate these tourism models
better. This will allow guests, developers, Bahamian
Government and it’s various agencies to see these models
work, and make them better for the whole Bahamas and
tourism in the region.

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The following are various tourism models that can be setup within a unique Bahamian village.
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Standard “The Normal” tourism model: The
tried and true tourism experience - a standard
Vacation experience.
Music/Video/Photography Tourism: A world
class music and video studio allowing guests
and or musicians to work or collaborate on
creating music and videos.
Agritourism: Farm based tourism, helping to
support the local agricultural economy. A farm
based tourism model that allows guests to be
involved in growing foods and the other
aspects while staying at the resort village.
Religious Tourism: Faith based retreats,
couples retreats, youth fellowships, Christian
fellowship, mission projects.
Health Tourism: On-site medical staff to
perform various medical procedures and the
guests recoup and relax while in a beautiful
island atmosphere.
Ecotourism, Geo-tourism and Sustainable
Tourism: involving visiting fragile, pristine, and
relatively undisturbed natural areas, intended as
a low-impact and often small scale alternative to
standard commercial (mass) tourism; a “green”
offering.
Educational Tourism: may involve travelling
to an education institution, research facility, a
wooded retreat or some other destination in
order to be involved in hands-on research
either for pleasure or for continuing education.
Cultural Tourism: includes visiting historical or
interesting sites, and experiencing their cultural
heritages. This type of tourism may also include
cultural experiences, such as historical museum,
learning island crafts, history etc.

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The following are various tourism models that can be setup within a unique Bahamian village.
Culinary Tourism: Food based, learn to prepare various Caribbean inspired cooking
techniques.
Nautical Tourism: Fishing, diving, snorkel tours, everything to deal with the water based
tourism. It is an increasingly popular way to combine love of Sailing and boating with
vacation and holiday activities.
Perpetual tourism: wealthy individuals always on vacation; some of them, for tax
purposes, to avoid being resident in any country. The resort village will partner with other
worldwide perpetual tourism sites.
Adventure Tourism: tourism involving travel in rugged regions, or adventurous sports such
as Bicycling, Free-Diving, Shark Dives and hiking.
Voluntourism: This tourism model allows guests to work within the resort village as part of
their stay at the resort, work on the farm, assist in research tests, etc.

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Resort Overview
The resort village will be a uniquely scaled resort. Although the Scope and
generalized idea of combining all the types of tourism that The Bahamas has to
offer in one location, the initial thought is to have the resort planned as a small
village. The design will have the architectural style of the well know Bahamian
villages like Hopetown, Harbour Island, Spanish Wells. The design possibilities
and the layout of the resort are limitless, so I won't delve too deep into the
design ideas right now. Initially, the thought process is to have a main resort
area with the surrounding buildings to be the various tourism model sites, in
essence creating a village that is an actual resort. The buildings will house the
various tourism models with rooms and amenities that serve that tourism field.
This village will be ever evolving as new and varied tourism models come to
light. Using the design philosophy similar to that of Walt Disney World, if a new
tourism model exists, then, a new section of the resort village can be opened
and thus expanding the existing base.
The overall benefit to this Resort Village is that it does not need to rely on one
or two particular types of tourism models to operate.

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Various pictures and design Ideas.

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Various pictures and design Ideas.