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Southwest Airlines Is Adding Flights From Las Vegas to Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta

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Southwest Airlines is expanding its international network this winter with new nonstop service from Las Vegas to two of Mexico’s most popular beach destinations: Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta. The new routes, launching in June 2026, will give travelers in the western United States more direct access to Mexico’s Pacific coast. Both destinations are known […]

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10 Great Caribbean Beach Towns to Visit in 2023

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It’s that perfect confluence: breathtaking beaches, walkable streets, buzzing dining scenes, vibrant communities, all in one place. The Caribbean’s best beach towns are destinations in their own right, where you can come for a day or for a week and immediately fall into the rhythm and the culture of the place.  This year’s list of […]

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First Sports Illustrated Resort Opens in Dominican Republic 

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The iconic Sports Illustrated brand is moving from the media into hospitality.  Authentic Brand Groups, which owns Sports Illustrated’s intellectual property, has announced the official opening of the first-ever Sports Illustrated resort, which opened this week in Cap Cana, Dominican Republic, the Dominican government confirmed. The new Sports Illustrated Resorts Marina and Villas Cap Cana […]

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10 Caribbean Hotel and Residential Projects to Keep an Eye On

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By Joe Pike, Special Contributor to CJI From Jamaica’s first UNICO hotel to JW Marriott’s first residential resort in the region, the Caribbean development pipeline continues to grow. That ranges from a new project by the Hartling Group in Turks and Caicos to the first destination resort on Curacao’s Mambo Beach to a world-class golf […]


First Sports Illustrated Resort Opens in Dominican Republic 

Marriott is set to open its highly-anticipated pair of new resorts in the US Virgin Islands this spring.  The new Westin Beach Resort and Spa at Frenchman’s Reef and Morningstar Buoy House Beach Resort, Autograph Collection is now taking reservations for stays beginning May 15.  The dual-resort property is the result of a $350 million […]

Melia Officially Opens New Punta Cana Resort

Melia Hotels International has held the grand opening of its new “resortainment” property in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.  The new all-inclusive resort is called Falcon’s Resort by Melia All Suites Punta Cana, a 432-suite property that is the result of a rebranding of the former Paradisus Grand Cana.  A second phase, the rebranding of the […]

The Cool List: the Coolest Hotels in the Caribbean for 2023

It’s hard to believe the first edition of our landmark Cool List was published 11 years ago. Today, the Caribbean Journal Cool List is still the annual authority on the Caribbean’s coolest, most creative, singular, buzzy places to stay. That continues to be the case with our 11th edition, with the Cool List 2023 featuring […]

Dominican Republic Tops 7 Million Tourists, Setting New Record

No Caribbean destination welcomed more travelers last year than the Dominican Republic.  And it wasn’t particularly close.  The surging tourism destination surpassed seven million visitors in 2022, the first time the country has every achieved that milestone, and a new record for the Caribbean at large. That included a remarkable showing in December, which turned […]

US Virgin Islands Joins Caribbean Tourism Organization 

The Caribbean Tourism Organization has just welcomed its 25th member destination: the United States Virgin Islands.  The USVI has been one of the fastest-growing tourism destinations in the wider region amid the pandemic. The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization has as its main objective the development of sustainable tourism in the wider Caribbean region.  “I wholeheartedly […]

Puerto Rico Passenger Traffic Remains Ahead of Pre-Pandemic Levels  

Passenger traffic in Puerto Rico was ahead of its pre-pandemic levels last year, according to newly-released data from Mexican company ASUR, which manages the island’s Luis Munoz Marin International Airport.  In 2022, San Juan’s air hub reported passenger traffic of 20,823,221, a 9.1 percent jump over the calendar year 2019.  Traffic was also 6.5 percent […]

Marriott to Reopen Top Dominican Republic All-Inclusive 

Marriott International has quietly been cultivating a broad portfolio of all-inclusive resorts across the Caribbean, from small boutiques in Barbados to large beach hotels in Antigua.  Last year, that included Marriott’s highly-anticipated addition of what is now the crown jewel of its all-inclusive portfolio: the adults-only Sanctuary Cap Cana in the Dominican Republic, the first […]

20 Cheap Caribbean Hotels for an Affordable Vacation

Since the onset of the pandemic, driven by tremendous travel demand, hotels around the world have gotten far more expensive. Some, significantly more expensive. Even a Caribbean hotel whose rack rate might have started at $150 per night three years ago could be charging upwards of $400 today; luxury hotels have massively raised their rates, […]