Mega Yachts

St.Maarten usually caters the middle class tourists but lately it’s been catering to upper middle class tourists. The main reason for this is, is that St.Maarten has a lot of docks specially made for mega yachts, a popular place to dock your yacht on St.Maarten is The Yacht Club. This mega yachts are owned by wealthy people. Docking a yacht at one of our docks costs about $200 dollars per hour. We gain a lot from these mega yachts. The people stay at our fancy pent houses and contribute to our island by buying groceries, renting cars and mainly just spending their vacation here. If more upper middle class people were to spend their vacation here it would better our image as an island. Right now we have the image that we go for quantity and not quality. This meaning that we go for a lot of tourists that don’t spend a lot of money on our island instead of going for a smaller amount of tourists who spend a lot of money on our islands. Islands in the Caribbean who do have the image of quality are St.Barths and Anguilla. A lot of celebrities go to these islands. But this year we’ve had celebrities stay on St.Maarten such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Mariah Carey as well. If a celebrity stays on the island it promotes our island big time. So we should try to better our image and continue serving the upper middle class as well.