The climate is nearly perfect and the variation in altitude and soil conditions on this 36 square mile island creates a natural garden of tropical vegetation. On the Caribbean side there is an unspoiled four mile long beach, of which has a portion has been taken up by a new 196 room Four Seasons Resort. It has an 18 hole golf course, tennis courts and swimming pools in addition to the ocean frontage, and, doubles the number of hotel rooms available on the island. It is a combined Canadian, Japanese and French project and is reported to be the first major Japanese property investment in the Caribbean. 

Other accommodations are ten unique small inns, most of them converted 1 8th century sugar plantations with original stone buildings and windmill towers. The government wishes to increase tourism but insists that all development be of five star quality and has rejected mass tourism as official policy.

The population is approximately 8,000 today, about one-third of what it was when sugar was King and the value of exports from Nevis exceeded that of any single British colony in North America. Nevis was a British colony from 1628 until 1983, when it became independent and joined the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. The Federation is an active member of the British Commonwealth and the United Nations. Nevis is a vigorous democracy based upon the British Parliamentary system with an elected local assembly. The largest expenditure by Government is for education and Nevis has achieved a literacy rate of 96%, possibly the highest in the Western Hemisphere. An independent study has ranked the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis as one of the ten freest nations in the world for seven years running. Combined with a low crime rate, full employment and lack of drug related difficulties, Nevis is exceptionally stable politically. The per capita income is about U.S. $5,600.00 per annum. The political parties reflect this stability in that they are both centrist and do not have substantial ideological differences.

Four years ago, Government privatized telecommunications, and Cable and Wireless of England has since installed a state of the art fiber optic digital system. The number of telephones has increased threefold in four years and any part of the world may be direct-dialed from Nevis without difficulty.

The Nevis airport can only accept propeller aircraft with a capacity of 18 passengers, but a planned expansion will allow 39 passenger propeller aircraft to use it in the future. Nevis has connecting flights to Antigua for the USA and Britain; St. Kitts for the USA and Canada; and St. Martin for the USA, Holland and France. There is daily ferry boat service to St. Kitts, eleven miles distant.