SLYOU Magazine issue 4 | Page 33

With over 1,500 team members working together to create the unforgettable vacation experience for its guests, Sandals Resorts International’s three properties in Saint Lucia finds a fitting and exciting way to honour its staff each year. Many of those team members work at Sandals Grande St. Lucian Spa & Beach Resort, located in the scenic ambience of Pigeon Island in Saint Lucia’s north. It’s a tough job keeping things under control, especially when dealing with guests with specific needs, but the team members all put in the effort to pull it all off. Such sterling efforts by team members don’t go unnoticed and each resort now has its own internal recognition ceremony to honour those who go the extra mile to make a difference. At this year’s Prestige Awards ceremony held at Sandals Grande on January 31, Winston Anderson, Managing Director, Sandals (Saint Lucia), described the event as extraordinary, likening it to the Oscars, Grammys, and World Travel Awards combined. www.slyoumag.com | February - April 2020 “For us, the management team of this resort, it’s the most prestigious, important and glamorous evening,” Anderson told the audience at the beginning. “It’s the evening we look forward to most in the year because we get time-out to say ‘Thank you’ to all our staff members.” SL-YOU | It’s All About Business 31