St Kitts’ Kittitian Hill Names General Manager For Hotel Project

By: - April 29th, 2014

Above: Kittitian Hill

By the Caribbean Journal staff

The Kittitian Hill project in St Kitts has named Carlos Salazar as the general manager of its Belle Mont Farm and Villas hotel, which is slated to open at the end of December.

Salazar’s resume includes stints as general manager of the former Bimini Bay Resort in the Bahamas and the Z Ocean Hotel in Miami Beach.

Above: Carlos Salazar

The hotel, which is designed by Bill Bensley, is a “boutique cottage hotel” located on the project’s 400-acre site.

In a statement, Salazar said he was “looking forward to leading the operations at Kittitian Hill and his delight in joining the journey at this exciting stage.”

The property said it would begin taking reservations on Sep.1 for arrivals in December 2014.

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