Malaysian Tourism officials are counting on the bold resort development to be the jewel in their tourism crown rather than an international embarrassment.
Inland, tall ironwood trees announce Kapalua, 23, 000 acres of Maui's most well-thought-out resort development, which includes a recently renovated Ritz-Carlton hotel.
Things stand to improve going forward as financing continues to become more available, as resort development recovers, and also as consumer-protection legislation increases confidence in the industry.
Like many other tropical resort destinations, development in the Mayan Riviera happened so fast that infrastructure, the ability to treat wastewater and the legal framework to ensure environmental protection has lagged behind.
Looking out on the golf course from my room (a breezily handsome one, admittedly) at Romanos, a Luxury Collection Resort in the first development, Navarino Dunes, I thought that I could just as easily have been in Scottsdale.
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They are interested in the way he runs the Mediterranean resort and his involvement in property development.
While there's still much to do on Antiparos, Tsakonas is already expanding to other islands as well: development of a multiuse resort on Skiathos is in its earliest phases.
You will pay a small fee to hang out here, as with many Turkish beaches that have been designated protected parkland and, peacefully, lack the beachfront development associated with many resort areas.
Regis, the Starwood Hotels brand, demanded an expansion of the resort's manor house, slowing development further.
The new academy is named after a Victorian architect who was central to the development of Weston as a resort.
He must now await the approval process for the the next phase of development: housing and a luxury resort.
The stylish development has a bit of a resort-like feel, with a pool area, outdoor barbecue grills and a sand volleyball court behind a spacious student recreation center with towering glass walls enclosing a fitness center, ping pong tables and a video game-playing area (on huge flat-screen TVs), among other amenities.
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In Oklahoma, the state allowed one of its most popular parks to deteriorate badly before selling it to a development company, which is turning it into a luxurious private resort.
The National Trust has sent members a letter saying that if a golf resort near the Giants Causeway goes ahead, "nowhere is safe from development".
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Residents in a Hampshire resort have handed in a 4, 500-signature petition against a proposed affordable housing development.
The development, on a 365-acre site, is to be known as Bushmills Dunes Golf Resort and Spa.
Chief Philippine government negotiator Robert Aventajado said he was confident that all of the remaining hostages, including four Europeans from among the original 21 kidnapped at the Malaysian island resort of Sipadan in late April and a Filipino man, would be released after payment of additional "development aid" by Tripoli.
That same liberalization presented Tusher with a dilemma: The government's friendlier posture toward development meant that someone might someday build condos on the 65, 000-acre sheep ranch surrounding his resort.
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