This is where we tell you how we got here, who we are, and what we care about most.
It’s not a complicated story, it just has people in it.
About Us
About the people behind
Hummingbird.
Hummingbird.
A small family, a handful of villas, and a way of working we’ve grown into over the years.
Our Story
Family run, more than four decades on island.
Hummingbird Luxury was started in 2015 by David and Delphine, a father and daughter, together with Steve, David’s longtime colleague and friend.
David first arrived in Providenciales in August 1981. A young quantity surveyor from Liverpool, sent out by a UK firm to help build the island’s first paved roads and its original airport. He made Providenciales home for his family and ended up spending most of his working life building things here. He still lives on the island. Still consults on construction. And plays guitar with The Bar Band once a week around the island. The family also owns two restaurants on Providenciales, Embers and Ashes, with Delphine’s executive chef husband, James.
In 1996 David founded Projetech Construction. Steve joined the firm shortly after, and the two of them worked together at Projetech for the twenty-seven years that followed, until David sold the company in 2023. Along the way they built a great deal of what this island looks like now. Steve is still managing director of Projetech, and a co-founder and director of Hummingbird alongside David and Delphine. Between them sits close to a century of construction experience, almost all of it here.
Delphine was raised in Providenciales and grew up on and around those job sites. She went off to study, first in the US and then at St Andrews in Scotland, where she took a Master’s in Marketing. She came home to Providenciales and hotel work and marketing followed. Delphine and David launched Panoply Sport Fishing together, a luxury fishing and charter company that has been serving guests since 2009. When Hummingbird opened its doors in 2015, she stepped in as managing director, alongside David and Steve. She’s still in that role today. Twenty years in and around hospitality, one way or another.
Hummingbird was built around a fairly simple idea. Owners on the island wanted someone to look after their villas the way they would themselves. Guests wanted a stay planned by people who actually knew the place. Hummingbird was set up to do both, and kept small enough to do it properly.
The Philosophy
It always comes back to the people.
The longer we’ve been at this, the more clearly we see that it all comes back to the same thing.
Care. The kind that moves through the whole network, not just to the guest at the end of it. It’s what David brought to construction, and it’s what Hummingbird brings to hospitality. When you look after the people you work alongside, they do their very best work.
There are four groups of people we hold in mind all the time. Our guests, who we hope will want to come back. Our team, who we hope will want to stay with us for a long time. Our owners, who trust us with their homes. And our vendors – the drivers, captains, massage therapists and craftsmen we work alongside, who bring their best when they’re treated well.
When one part of the network goes quiet, the rest does too. Which is what we mean when we say we’re a family business. Less the ownership of it, and more the feeling of it.
The Team
The same faces, year after year.
The person who answers your first email is usually the same person meeting you at the villa.
The team was built slowly, one person at a time. Every concierge, butler, and housekeeper is a professional in their own right, chosen because their values sit alongside the family’s. Not just skilled at the work, but aligned on how the work should feel.
The concierge team has been with Hummingbird for years, along with the butlers and the housekeepers. Some of them met your friend last summer, and they’ll remember her by name when you arrive. That’s the kind of continuity that gets built slowly, over time, and it makes more difference than anything else.
By day two, the butler knows your coffee. By day three, the housekeeper knows which side of the bed you sleep on. Small things, done well, over and over. That’s most of what a good stay actually is.
Behind us sits a wider circle. Captains who know where the good fishing is. Chefs who cook peas and rice like nothing you’ve had before. Drivers who become friends by the second trip. Most of them have known the family for years. When they welcome you, it’s the same welcome they’d give their own.
The Collection
A small collection, kept closely.
A handful of villas across Providenciales, each one taken on slowly.
Every villa is walked through by the team before it’s added. The house needs to be one we’d be proud to have people stay in, and the owner needs to be someone we can work with the way welike to work. Each villa adds something the others don’t. Every owner has become someone we care about.
Get in Touch
Speak to us.
Your call or email answered. Always by someone who knows the villas.
Tell us a bit about the trip you’re planning. Who’s coming, when you’re thinking of visiting, and what you’d like the days to feel like.
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