Plans for a trio of massive local tourism developments are set to gather steam again as players set up meetings with the new Government following the holiday season.

At least three separate developments hinge upon meetings with Government representatives which will be held during the upcoming weeks.

These include Camberley Hotel Company's plans in the East End, Morgan Harbour Investment Ltd.'s ideas for derelict military land in the West End and Elbow Beach Golf Club Ltd.'s planned purchase and development of a recently closed hotel.

Atlanta-based Camberley is looking to pump $32 million into the former Club Med Hotel in St. George's and create a new 300-room hotel plus some 300 jobs.

Those plans were put on hold before the General Election because of the company's desire to see who its landlords would be after November 9.

Yesterday Camberley's president, Ian Lloyd-Jones, announced that meetings had been scheduled with Government for this week but he was forced to postpone them after urgent matters requiring his attention arose in the US.

Meetings were held with Progressive Labour Party representatives in their former Opposition role, he noted, but updates on the company's progress had to be presented.

There is a sense of urgency as Camberley's present option to lease period, which was extended by the former Government in October, expires on January 10.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the Island, Morgan's Harbour Investment Ltd. is looking to spend more than $200 million on transforming the abandoned US Naval Air Annex in Southampton into a deluxe resort.

Plans for the 250-acre site include a cottage colony, marina, village centre, elderly housing, residential units and a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course.

MHIL originally won the right to develop the site outright from the organisation in charge of development on the former Base lands -- the Bermuda Land Development Company -- in March, 1997.

Since then it has entered a partnership with an as yet unnamed developer/investor after having difficulties in raising the necessary financing for the plan.

The new entity declined to make a commitment to the project until after the General Election and the BLDC is presently attempting to set up meetings between representatives of the MHIL partnership and Government in a bid to get the scheme underway.

And more meetings are scheduled between Elbow Beach Hotel chiefs and Government representatives over plans for the Paget property to buy and develop the Belmont Hotel and Golf Club in Warwick.

Elbow Beach Hotel, through a separate company entitled Elbow Beach Golf Club Ltd., is looking to purchase the recently closed hotel, expand its golf course, raze the existing buildings to the ground and build a new golf club and 50 villas on the site.

The project is part of a total resort development plan which includes construction of 43 more villas at Cataract Hill.

Elbow Beach general manager William Shoaf said yesterday that plans to buy the property were moving along but presentations of the plans for the site had to be made to the Government and further meetings had to be held with the Planning Department.

MEETINGS -- Tourism Minister David Allen