Samuel Raphael

Developer, Managing Director

 Samuel "Sam" Raphael was bestowed the 2010 Best in Personal Contribution to Responsible Tourism by Virgin Holidays Travel Awards. He is Developer of Jungle Bay Dominica and CEO of Hummingbird Air in the Caribbean. 
Samuel "Sam" Raphael was bestowed the 2010 Best in Personal Contribution to Responsible Tourism by Virgin Holidays Travel Awards. Sam is developer of Jungle Bay Dominica and CEO of Hummingbird Air in the Caribbean. Dominican born entrepreneur & sustainable development activist, Sam, moved from Dominica to St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands at a young age and later pursued higher education in International Studies at The American University of Washington DC. In 1984 Sam returned to St. Croix where he began a successful business career primarily in real estate development that has culminated in the development of Jungle Bay, one of the Caribbean's most exciting resorts.

According to Sam, the concept for Jungle Bay came about during his fifth grade field trip to Cinnamon Bay Campground in St. John, US Virgin Islands, in 1972. At the time Sam was living on his childhood home of St. Croix where his family had migrated to from Dominica in 1968. The environmental awareness of this class trip had such an impact on 11 year old Sam that he adopted the concept of conservation and environmental preservation as his life's philosophy.

Thirty years later, in the height of a successful career as a tourism and real estate developer and "with a difference" Sam, accompanied by Glenda (this power couple actually got married barefoot on a rock on the nearby White River by Jungle Bay in Dominica) left their comfortable life of close friends, relatives and their golf villa on St. Croix and returned to one of the most remote parts of their native island home to turn their dream into reality. In addition to operating Jungle Bay and Hummingbird Air Sam spends his time promoting youth entrepreneurship and other aspects of sustainable development throughout the Caribbean.
Samuel Raphael
Developer, Managing Director
Jungle Bay Dominica

Website:
www.junglebaydominica.com

Phone:
(340) 626-1509

Address:
Delices, West Indies
Dominica

Areas of Expertise:
sustainable tourism
social development
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