Cable Beach is a beach,

resort destination A resort town, often called a resort city or resort destination, is an urban area where tourism or vacationing is the primary component of the local culture and economy. A typical resort town has one or more actual resorts in the surrounding ...

, and populated place on the northern coast of

New Providence Island New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. It is the location of the national capital city of Nassau, whose boundaries are coincident with the island; it had a population of 24 ...

in the

Bahamas The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archi ...

west of

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. It spans two and a half miles. It is home to Pompey Market.

History

It is said Cable Beach owes its name to an 1892

submarine telegraph cable A submarine communications cable is a cable laid on the sea bed between land-based stations to carry telecommunication signals across stretches of ocean and sea. The first submarine communications cables laid beginning in the 1850s carried tel ...

linking Jupiter, Florida to Goodman's Bay. Tourism in the area dates back as early as the 1940s, and by the 1950s, it had become a centre for hotel development. It was called the Bahamian Riviera. The Emerald Beach Hotel, opened in 1954, was the first air conditioned hotel and opened the largest casino in the Bahamas. Although the hotel is defunct and has been replaced more than once, the casino is still in use to this day.

Howard Deering Johnson Howard Deering Johnson (February 2, 1897 – June 20, 1972) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, and the founder of an American chain of restaurants and motels under one company of the same name, Howard Johnson's. Early life Howard Joh ...

's first venture outside of the United States opened in 1958 in Cable Beach. Cable Beach experienced a period of instability in the wake of Bahamian independence and liberation as well as the rise of the newer Paradise Island and other tourism competitors. The PLP government headed by

Lynden Pindling Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, NH, KCMG, PC, JP (22 March 193026 August 2000) was a Bahamian politician who is regarded as the "Father of the Nation" of the Bahamas, having led it to majority rule on 10 January 1967 and to independence on 10 Ju ...

began buying failing hotels. A number of these were re-privatised in the 1990s when the FNM came into power. Bahamas 1988 (054) New Providence Cable Beach (23365179346).jpg , Skyline in 1988 Cable Beach SkyLine - panoramio.jpg , Skyline in 2015

Resorts and hotels

Baha Mar Baha Mar is a resort complex on the island of New Providence in The Bahamas. Owned by Hong Kong-based Chow Tai Fook Enterprises, the establishment opened in April 2017. The amenities include three hotels (a Grand Hyatt, SLS Baha Mar, and the ...

*Breezes *Casuarinas *Marley Resort and Spa * Meliá Nassau Beach *Ocean West Boutique Hotel * Sandals Royal Bahamian *Westwind Club

Defunct

* Ambassador Beach Hotel * The Balmoral * Crystal Palace Resort (replaced by Baha Mar) * Hyatt Emerald Beach Hotel (replaced by Crystal Palace) * Nassau Beach Lodge (replaced by Baha Mar) * Sheraton Nassau Beach Resort (replaced by Meliá) * Sonesta Beach Hotel

References

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