Cable Beach, Bahamas

Cable Beach is a beach, resort destination, and populated place on the northern coast of New Providence Island in the Bahamas west of Nassau.

[3] Tourism in the area dates back as early as the 1940s, and by the 1950s, it had become a centre for hotel development.

[4] Howard Deering Johnson's first venture outside of the United States opened in 1958 in Cable Beach.

[5] 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 began buying failing hotels.