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New Caribbean Travel Advisor Awards to Honor the Best Travel Agencies Selling the Caribbean
Caribbean Travel Advisor has launched its new awards program honoring top advisors to compete for votes in such categories as Best Small Agency to Best Agency for Weddings: the Caribbean Travel Advisor Awards 2025. “We always strive to give our […]
Mel Gibson Selling Costa Rica Jungle Retreat
Hollywood actor and director Mel Gibson is selling his 403-acre jungle retreat in Costa Rica. The property, called Playa Barrigona, has been listed with Christie’s International Real Estate for $29.75 million. The property includes three homes on a hilltop with […]
JetBlue Begins Selling Fort Lauderdale-Barbados Flights
New flights hit the market By the Caribbean Journal staff JetBlue has officially begun selling its new flights between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood and Barbados’ Grantley Adams International Airport. JetBlue will be launching the service April 28, 2016. The route was first […]
JetBlue Officially Begins Selling New York-Grenada Flights
Above: Grenada (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff JetBlue has announced that its new New York-Grenada service is officially out for sale. The twice-weekly service between New York’s John F Kennedy Airport and Grenada’s Maurice Bishop International Airport is slated […]
Donna Karan Is Selling Her Turks and Caicos Retreat for $39 Million
Above: Donna Karan’s Turks and Caicos compound (all photos: Paradise Photography) By the Caribbean Journal staff Globally-renowned designer Donna Karan has listed part of her retreat in the Turks and Caicos Islands for sale, according to Christie’s International Real Estate, which […]
Why the Hottest Bar (and Cocktail) Scene in the Caribbean Is in Nassau and Paradise Island in The Bahamas
It’s a Thursday evening and a live band is jamming out on “Funky Nassau,” the jazz-funk hit that is one of the best-selling Bahamian albums of all time. This is Jon Batiste’s: the world-renowned jazz star’s new jazz club at […]
United Airlines Is Adding More Flights to the Caribbean, With Extra Service to St Maarten, Punta Cana and Cozumel
The shopping in Philipsburg. The dinners in Grand Case. The vibes on Friar’s Bay. The energy in Maho. St Maarten is more popular than ever, and now the island is getting an extra boost from United Airlines this fall, Caribbean […]
The 10 Best Hotels in Bonaire, From Beachfront All-Inclusives to Iconic Dive Resorts
The Caribbean island of Bonaire is one of the last places where a hotel stay still feels like discovery. It’s quiet, low-key, and spectacularly unscripted—more reef than resort, more adventure than agenda. There are no mega-hotels, no cruise crowds, no […]
Anguilla Is Hotter Than Ever. Now the Island Has a New Director of Tourism.
Anguilla is seeing record-breaking visitor totals, and now the island just named a new director of tourism, Caribbean Journal has learned. Anguilla’s Tourism Minster Cardigan Connor has tapped Jameel Rochester as the new director of tourism at the Anguilla Tourist […]
This New Route Will Connect Newark to Santo Domingo Nonstop
The Colonial Zone. The beisbol. The BlueMall. The JW. Santo Domingo has quietly become a growing travel destination in the Caribbean, thanks to a big push by tourism officials and a wave of new flight routes. (It’s even got its first-ever […]
Cruise Tourism Is Booming in the US Virgin Islands, With More Growth Ahead in 2025
The shopping on Main Street. The painkillers at the Mountain Top. Beach-hopping in St John. It’s no secret why the US Virgin Islands is a Caribbean cruise powerhouse, and the destination continues to see strong growth in passenger arrivals, Caribbean […]
IPA Export’s Heico Thorn on Supplying Caribbean Hotels
From hotel rum bars to some of the Caribbean’s top restaurants, Heico Thorn has played a major role in supplying top projects across the region in the last few decades. Thorn’s IPA Export, founded in 1993, has helped complete hundreds […]
The Caribbean Island of St Kitts Is Looking to Become an All-Year-Round Destination
St Kitts is in the midst of a tourism renaissance, buoyed by a new sustainability-fueled tourism branding and new flights from carriers like JetBlue. This summer, the island tapped a new CEO to lead its next tourism push: industry veteran […]
Turks and Caicos’ Top Luxury Residential Project Just Eclipsed $78 Million in Sales
2020 changed things. It changed the nature of real estate globally — and it sent high-net-worth buyers in numbers to the islands of the Caribbean, in search of space, seclusion and new levels of luxury. That led, in large part, […]
Why Nassau Paradise Island Tourism Is Booming — And What’s Next for the Destination
Tourism in Nassau Paradise Island is, in a word, booming. Whether it’s world-class large resorts like Atlantis Paradise Island and Baha Mar, boutique hotels such as Graycliff or family-friendly options like the Margaritaville Beach Resort and Comfort Suites Paradise Island […]
Rum Journal: In St Thomas, a Rum Bar With a View
Sushi. Poke. Rum. The sign at the entrance makes a rather compelling case. But the biggest selling point at the US Virgin Islands’ newest rum bar, Sugarfin, sn’t any of those things. It’s the view. Here at the legendary Frenchman’s Reef […]
Why to Visit French Saint Martin Right Now
Dutch St. Maarten may get more attention than its French neighbor — it has the island’s airport and the bulk of its bigger hotels— but French St. Martin abounds with charms of its own, from lovely boutique hotels to some […]
St Kitts Tourism Has a New CEO
The St Kitts Tourism Authority has named a new chief executive officer, Caribbean Journal has learned. St Kitts has named Anne Kelly Fontenelle-Clarke to the role, effective July 1. “The wealth of experience Ms. Fontenelle-Clarke brings to the table, spanning […]
A Low-Key, Lovely Adults-Only Beach Resort in Aruba
When Aruba’s Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort opened in 1987, it made sense for the hotel’s restaurant to be built in the shape of a boat shipwrecked on the sand: while Eagle Beach didn’t exactly resemble a desert island back […]
The Newest Adults-Only Resort in Curacao Comes With Its Own Village
If it takes a village to make a great vacation, you’ve come to the right place in Curacao’s Kura Botanica Hotel. A boutique property with 46 recently refreshed rooms, the “new” Kura Botanica was carved out of the former Hotel […]
US Virgin Islands Continues Winter-Spring Travel Push
The US Virgin Islands is continuing to ramp up its push to promote the territory as a winter and spring destination. US Virgin Islands Tourism Commissioner Joseph Boschulte led a delegation across major US cities this month, including Atlanta, Boston, […]
The 25 Best All-Inclusive Resorts in the Caribbean, from Adults-Only to Boutique
What is an all-inclusive resort? In recent years, the answer to that question has changed dramatically. Today, all-inclusive means a resort that is at the cutting edge of travel trends, one that is catering to the demands of a massive […]
This is the Most Delicious Road in Puerto Rico
Arguably the best way to get to know the people and culture of Puerto Rico is through the island’s food, and the main road to culinary discovery is called the Ruta de Lechón — the Pork Highway. In Spanish, lechón […]
This Nassau Resort Is Offering Incentives for Group Bookings
Margaritaville Beach Resort Nassau in the Bahamas is offering some interesting incentives for advisors who book a substantially sized group. Advisors who book between 25 to 49 rooms will be able to pick two benefits from the resort’s benefits list. […]
Are OTAs Still a Threat to Travel Agents?
Online Travel Agencies (OTA) haven’t posed much of a threat to the business of travel advisors as they did in the past, but should an agent put OTAs in the rearview mirror for good or should they still be watching […]
The Top Emerging Caribbean Islands, According to Travel Agents
From the Bahamas to Jamaica, there are a lot of well-known and well-booked Caribbean destinations. But what about the ones that still have massive growth potential? Several Caribbean specialists recently shared the islands that, while they may not be totally […]
Hyatt’s New All-Inclusive Platform for Travel Advisors
By Dana Niland Hyatt’s inclusive Collection, the largest pool of luxury all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean, is launching Confidant Collective, a new online platform featuring resources exclusively designed to cultivate opportunities for travel advisors. Complete with enhanced sales and marketing tools […]
Frontier Airlines Has an All-You-Can Fly Pass to the Caribbean
Planning multiple visits to the Caribbean this year? Perhaps a few trips to St Thomas? And then some island hopping to Vieques and Culebra through San Juan, with a Cancun vacation squeezed in? Frontier Airlines’ newest program is giving travelers […]