Tourism

Guyana President Irfaan Ali to Keynote Caribbean Tourism Conference in Georgetown

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Guyana President Irfaan Ali will deliver the keynote address at the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s State of the Tourism Industry Conference, which is heading to Georgetown in October. The regional tourism conference will be held from Oct. 5-9 under the theme “Tourism Futures: Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive.” It will be the first time Guyana has hosted […]

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Rum Journal: Celebrating Hemingway, Papa’s Pilar Opens Key West Distillery

BY ALEXANDER BRITELL The sun burned and then the doors opened and the rum began to flow, in the way only rum can on a hot afternoon. In an old grey building on Simonton Street in this island corner of America, the Hemingway Rum Company finally had found a home. Four years after its birth, […]

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RCI Keeps Growing in the Caribbean

Vacation exchange giant RCI continues to grow in the Caribbean. The worldwide leader in exchanges has added more than 150 new affiliated properties in the Caribbean in the last decade. “The Caribbean is a highly desirable vacation location, and a region where we have seen tremendous growth,” said Gordon Gurnik, president of RCI. “Over the […]

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At the Hilton Aruba, History Is a Highlight

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By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon We love when hotels make an effort to incorporate a sense of destination into the vacation experience, whether that’s having in-suite Dark ‘n’ Stormy and Tequila set-ups (as at Rosewood Tucker’s Point and Grand Velas Riviera Maya, respectively) or patois proverbs placed on your pillow during turndown service, as they do at […]


RCI Keeps Growing in the Caribbean

It’s the late afternoon and you’re sitting on a perfect white-sand beach, enjoying a rum-filled cocktail, watching the breeze. This is the Caribbean fantasy. But isn’t the Caribbean that much better with a group? We’re here to help. We’ve partnered with JetBlue to offer the ultimate getaway: four tickets from any JetBlue city to any […]

The Hilton Aruba Gives You Waterproof Books

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor If you’re like us, all your recent beach reading has been done on mobile phones or e-readers. And while these devices are convenient ways to take our reading material on vacation without lugging a tote bag full of tomes, they do have their drawbacks, glare and depleted batteries to […]

Elegant Hotels Group Acquires Barbados’ Treasure Beach

One of the Caribbean’s top hotel companies has added another property to its portfolio. Barbados-based Elegant Hotels Group has announced the acquisition of the Treasure Beach hotel, a deal finalized last week. The four-star, 35-room property is located on Paynes Bay in the St. James parish of Barbados, adjacent to Elegant’s Tamarind hotel. The acquisition […]

Seven Fun Things to Do in Playa Del Carmen

Touch down at Cancun International Airport and within 40 minutes you can be on the beach at Playa Del Carmen. In the heart of Mexico’s Riviera Maya between Cancun and Tulum, the fishing village that 30 years ago had only one rutted road and a single traffic light is now a full-fledged tourism town, with […]

Acapulco’s Cruise Boom

Acapulco is expecting a record number of arrivals by passenger cruise ships this year. So far, 28 cruise ships with a total of 31,000 passengers have called at the port, compared to 18 during 2016– a 64 percent increase for the season. Next year’s 2017-2018 season is expected to be even better, with at least […]

VIDEO: A Walk on the Beach in Bavaro

It’s one of the most famous stretches of sand in the Caribbean: Bavaro Beach, the white-sand strand that rims the edge of the tourism capital of the Dominican Republic: Punta Cana. It’s home to some of the Caribbean’s most famous places to stay, and is the most popular destinaiton in the Caribbean. This is what […]

AC Hotel Opens in San Juan’s Condado Neighborhood

Marriott has opened its first-ever AC Hotel in the Caribbean: the AC Hotel by Marriott San Juan Condado. Set in the increasingly chic residential district of Condado, the design-heavy hotel has 233 brand new guestrooms, including 46 suites. Onsite amenities include the AC Kitchen, AC Lounge restaurant, a fitness center, a business center and a […]

Rosewood’s New Americas Hire

Rosewood Hotel Group has named Achim Lenders its new senior vice president of operations for the Americas and Europe. In the position, Lenders will provide “support, guidance and direction to the operational teams of Rosewood properties in those regions,” according to a statement. A native of Germany, Lenders had served most recently as Starwood’s global […]