Sen­a­tor the Ho­n­ourable Ran­dall Mitchell, Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts is wel­com­ing a new ho­tel with­in close prox­im­i­ty to the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

Ac­cord­ing to this press re­lease, the Ho­n­ourable Ran­dall Mitchell, thanked the ho­tel chain for choos­ing to in­vest in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease...

Trinidad and To­ba­go is set to wel­come a new ho­tel with­in close prox­im­i­ty to the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port. The sod turn­ing for the con­struc­tion of the new Four Points by Sher­a­ton Ho­tel was held on No­vem­ber 2, 2022 at the North Avi­a­tion Busi­ness Park, Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

The $156M Ho­tel Project by the in­ter­na­tion­al­ly renowned Sher­a­ton Brand will add 153 high qual­i­ty rooms to the coun­try’s ex­ist­ing ho­tel room stock when com­plet­ed.

Dur­ing his ad­dress, Sen­a­tor the Ho­n­ourable Ran­dall Mitchell, Min­is­ter of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts thanked the ho­tel chain for choos­ing to in­vest in Trinidad and To­ba­go. He high­light­ed the piv­otal role the ho­tel will play in at­tract­ing for­eign ex­change and cre­at­ing em­ploy­ment. He an­tic­i­pat­ed that the project will pro­vide an es­ti­mat­ed 500 new jobs dur­ing the con­struc­tion phase and hun­dreds more dur­ing the op­er­a­tional phase as well as “…cause a great deal of stim­u­la­tion to our im­proved Agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor, our ro­bust Man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor, and of course, our Ser­vices sec­tor.”

Min­is­ter Mitchell told the au­di­ence that in­clud­ed Sen­a­tor the Ho­n­ourable Ro­han Sinanan, Min­is­ter of Works & Trans­port; and Mr. Tamar­co G. Ed­wards, Di­rec­tor of Pres­tige Ho­tels Ltd, and Deputy Chair­man of STAGES Group “We are on track to re­turn­ing the Tourism Sec­tor’s con­tri­bu­tion to GDP and we are hap­py for the jobs and fur­ther eco­nom­ic op­por­tu­ni­ties that this project holds for the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

Min­is­ter Mitchell em­pha­sized the Min­istry’s com­mit­ment to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing Ho­tel Ac­com­mo­da­tion and Tourism Projects through in­cen­tives of­fered un­der the Tourism De­vel­op­ment Act, Chap­ter 87:22 (TDA) that fa­cil­i­tates both the de­vel­op­ment of new ho­tel room stock and im­prove­ment of ex­ist­ing room stock. The Act, which is ad­min­is­tered by the Min­istry of Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts, pro­vides for ben­e­fits to be grant­ed to the own­ers/op­er­a­tors of var­i­ous types of tourism projects that con­tribute to the growth and ex­pan­sion of the in­dus­try.

The com­ing on stream of the Four Points by Sher­a­ton Ho­tel forms part of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s larg­er thrust to build eco­nom­ic re­silience with­in the trav­el and tourism sec­tor through the de­vel­op­ment of the first air­port city with­in the Caribbean.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Four Points by Sher­a­ton Ho­tel will be the third of its kind with­in the Caribbean re­gion, and the first to be man­aged by Mar­riott Se­lect Brands, the lead­ing ho­tel group in the world.