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Abstract
The Salamis Bay Hotel was the largest constructed in Cyprus in the 1970s, owned by a British construction firm that established its presence on the island during colonial rule (1878–1960). This paper introduces the concept of “residual imperialism,” extending scholarship on informal imperialism and neocolonialism to discuss how imperialism, after the end of British rule, took new forms through tourism, local politics, military divisions, and suspended sovereignties in postcolonial, yet contested, Cyprus. The Salamis Bay Hotel is discussed in relation to the invasion and abrupt division of Cyprus in 1974. While foreign ownership purportedly remained in British hands during this time, the hotel’s pre-1974 context demonstrates financial dependencies upon the Greek Cypriot controlled Republic of Cyprus, whereas its post-1974 life involves the complex workings of British entrepreneurship in relation to the economic interests of the de facto state of the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
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