Sandals Seeks To Allay Its Workers’ ‘Slow Season’ Anxieties

The September to October tourism “slow season” is now here, during which several hotels will be experiencing lower than usual occupancy, and seven are expected to close temporarily. . However, Sandals Resorts International, which operates three Saint Lucia properties, has opted instead to have staff on rotation. “Saint Lucia and certainly our staff remain very dear to us,” Winston Anderson, Managing Director, Sandals Eastern Caribbean, told St. Lucia Times. “Our journey started here in 1993 and we now have three amazing properties. A number of our senior leaders come out of Saint Lucia and it speaks to the quality, the warmth, the friendliness and that passion in Saint Lucia,” Anderson stated. He explained that the quality of the visitor experience, the service they receive and the people of Saint Lucia contribute to the success Sandals has enjoyed here. In August, Sandals Barbados laid off 200 workers before the slow season. Anderson responded when asked whether this created any anxieties among Sandals employees in Saint Lucia. “I would say first of all that it would be human nature to be anxious about what they see happening elsewhere and to say there wasn’t, yes there were. However we try to understand the...