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A Floating Soca Party Is Coming Soon to St Thomas

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When the UberSoca Cruise docks in St. Thomas on Nov. 19, the harbor won’t just welcome a ship — it will transform into a full-scale celebration of Caribbean culture. The arrival of the Norwegian Encore cruise ship will turn the waterfront into a festival of color, sound, and flavor as thousands of soca fans join […]

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Why This Is Marcus Samuelsson’s Favorite Caribbean Event  

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Celebrity chefs like Marcus Samuelsson, Daniel Boulud and Dario Cecchini. Bartenders like Marv the Mixologist. Food Network stars Amanda Freitag, Carla Hall, Maneet Chauhan and Geoffrey Zakarian. World-class art in a special showcase.  There’s no Caribbean festival quite like The Bahamas Culinary & Art Festival, which returns to the Baha Mar resort in Nassau from […]

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In Saint Vincent, a Sandals-Fueled Tourism Boom 

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We’ve called it the Sandals Effect. When Sandals goes into a destination, big things usually happen in the airlift sector.  It’s happened before — in destinations like Grenada, when the island welcomed its first Sandals back in 2013, a significant increase in airlift quickly followed.  Fast forward to 2022, when Sandals opened its first resort […]

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The Caribbean's Best Dive Resort Is in Bonaire

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Divers know it. It’s one of those resorts they speak about in a reverent tone, a place that has mastered the art. It’s set on a sparkling patch of Caribbean Sea on the western coast of Bonaire, just across the water from Klein Bonaire, a haven for divers and aquatic enthusiasts the world over. Plainly, […]


In Saint Vincent, a Sandals-Fueled Tourism Boom 

JetBlue is seeking to add a second daily low fare nonstop flight between Washington D.C. and San Juan, Puerto Rico, Caribbean Journal has learned. The airline will apply with the U.S. Department of Transportation for slot exemptions in order to double its service between Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, the […]

Jamaica Tops 1 Million Visitor Mark 

Jamaica just topped the one million stopover visitor mark for 2024, a significant milestone for the island’s continued tourism boom.  So far this year, the island has posted just under 1.1 million stopover visitors, according to top tourism executive Donovan White.  The projection is for a total of 3.23 million stopover visitors for the calendar […]

Caribbean Photo of the Week: On the Beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

The latest Caribbean Photo comes from Caribbean Journal reader Maria Yabes-Gillett, who sent in this lovely shot of the beach in the travel hotspot of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. Have you taken a great photo in the Caribbean? Send it to news@caribjournal.com with CPOTW in the subject line, including your first and last […]

The Caribbean’s Best Pickleball Resorts Are in Antigua (And They're All-Inclusive)

It’s the fastest growing sport in America – the world, for that matter, too — for a reason. The ease, fun and tremendous workout pickleball provides have quickly captivated players everywhere — and that includes the Caribbean.  While an increasing number of resorts around the Caribbean and Mexico are starting to develop their pickleball offerings, one […]

Frontier Just Launched a New Dominican Republic Route

Maybe you know Punta Cana, or Santo Domingo, or La Romana. But there’s one place in the Dominican Republic that’s seeing particularly significant growth in the last few years: Santiago de los Caballeros.  The area south of Puerto Plata has been seeing a wave of new flights, as the Dominican Republic looks to broaden its […]

IHG Is Opening a New Mexican Caribbean Resort 

IHG is opening its first-ever Vignette Collection resort in the Mexico-Caribbean region next year, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The new El Gran Encomendero is set in the town of Valladolid at the corner of the Yucatan Peninsula, at the crossroads of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.  The 83-room hotel will be the […]

At Anse Chastanet in Saint Lucia, The Art of Adventure

Saint Lucia’s Anse Chastanet resort (the sister property to Jade Mountain) has a host of familiar amenities, including a spa, cooking classes, chocolate making classes, and water sports activities like scuba diving, paddle boarding, and kayaking. But it’s also the rare Caribbean property that’s a true adventure sports destinations. Located on the beach that lends […]

Another Celebrity Chef Just Opened an Atlantis Paradise Island Restaurant 

Nobu Matsuhisa, Jose Andres, Michael White, Alon Shaya. Now another celebrity chef has debuted a restaurant at The Bahamas’ Atlantis Paradise Island resort.  The newest name? Chef JJ Johnson, who has debuted his FIELDTRIP, a fast-casual, “community-driven” rice bowl shop featuring Afro-Caribbean cuisine. The restaurant, which first opened in Harlem and now has three locations […]