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In Barbados, a Showcase for Caribbean Tourism

The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), in collaboration with Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc., and the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association, is set to host Caribbean Travel Marketplace, taking place from May 9 – 11 at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford […]

Caribbean Week Is Returning to New York

The Caribbean Tourism Organization’s popular Caribbean Week event is coming back to New York this summer. This year will be the first time Caribbean Week has been held since the onset of the pandemic. It will run from June 5-8, […]

Small Caribbean Hotel of the Week: An Essential Puerto Rico Stay

While Puerto Rico has been seeing dynamic tourism growth since the pandemic, that wasn’t the case a decade ago. That was when hospitality stars Loisse Herger and Fernando Davila took a chance and opened an innovative new boutique hotel in […]

Another Reason to Visit Antigua and Barbuda Restaurant Week

There’s another great reason to visit the Caribbean’s hottest new culinary event: Antigua and Barbuda Restaurant Week. Elite Island Resorts is offering a $500 air credit for travelers visiting the destination for the event, valid for stays at the St […]

How to Stay at This Beach Resort for Bonaire Rum Week

Bonaire’s annual celebration of rum and culinary culture is back again this summer, with Bonaire Rum Week 2023 set for June 12-17. And another one of the island’s top resorts has launched a special program for travel during the week. […]

A New Vision for the Impact of Caribbean Tourism

A leading Caribbean tourism official wants to see Caribbean nationals derive more benefits from the tourism industry, leading to greater “generational wealth” for residents of the region. Speaking at the first Global Tourism Resilience Conference, which was held in Kingston, Jamaica last […]

Jamaica Urges Creation of Global Tourism “Resilience Fund”

Jamaica Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett is urging the creation of a global truism resilience fund to support tourism-dependent nations in periods of disruption. The call came amid the Jamaica-hosted Global Tourism Resilience Conference in Kingston this week. “While we talk […]

The Caribbean Tourism Organization Is Bringing Back Its Biggest Events

The Caribbean Tourism Organization is bringing back its biggest annual events this year, Caribbean Journal has learned. That includes the return of both the State of the Industry Conference and Caribbean Week in New York, among others. The 2023 edition […]

What’s Next for Nevis Tourism in 2023?

Tiny Nevis has long been beloved by Caribbean aficionados, drawn to the island for its historic charm, beautiful natural environment and enviable collection of boutique hotels and inns. As the island’s tourism sector emerges from the pandemic, Caribbean Journal caught […]

Caribbean Photo of the Week: St Kitts, From the Sea

The latest Caribbean Photo comes from Caribbean Journal reader Eric Schaeffer, who sent in this stunning shot of Basseterre, St Kitts, taken while on a cruise. “It was a beautiful late afternoon when I took this photo,” Eric tells Caribbean […]

Bonaire Keeps Up Strong Tourism Growth

Bonaire welcomed 16,285 stayover visitors in January if 2023– over 10 percent more than stayover visitors recorded in January 2019. The island’s two largest source markets have shown signs of growth, with a total of 8,383 Dutch visitors and 3,938 […]

“Jamaica Tourism Is Back”

Jamaica is projecting very strong tourism growth for 2023, fresh off a full-fledged renaissance in 2022, according to Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett. The island is forecasting 11 percent tourism growth this year, officials announced at this week’s FITUR trade show […]

Bonaire Tourism “Has Recovered” From the Pandemic

Bonaire has officially completed its “recovery” from the pandemic, finishing off a stellar 2022 with more visitors than in 2019. The Dutch Caribbean hotspot reported an increase of 12,394 visitors over 2019, exceeding pre-pandemic levels. In fact, December 2022 was […]

Grenada Is Breaking Tourism Records

Grenada is seeing visitor numbers ahead of its record-breaking pace from 2019, before the onset of the pandemic. The island just saw its visitor numbers surpass its pre-pandemic totals for the third consecutive month. That included 14,232 visitors in November, […]

Barbados, Saudi Arabia to Deepen Tourism Cooperation

Barbados and Saudi Arabia are looking to deepen their cooperation on tourism, following the signing of several high-profile agreements this week. Barbados Tourism Minister Ian Gooding-Edghill signed a Tourism Memorandum of Understanding with Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Tourism HE Ahmed […]

The Caribbean’s Coolest Art Week Is In St Barth

It’s an unrivaled celebration of dynamic artists from around the world in St Barth. Now in its fourth year, Art Week is back in St Barth this week, running from Nov. 22 to Nov. 29, with painters, photographers and sculptors […]

Curacao Tourism “Fully Recovered,” Setting New Records

Curacao is now “fully recovered” from the impact of the pandemic, tourism officials said this week. The Curacao Tourist Board is reporting 355,661 stayover visitor arrivals in the first three quarters of 2022, a 103 percent increase compared to the […]

Club Med’s Bahamas All-Inclusive Resort Reopens This Week

For years it was arguably the signature all-inclusive resort in The Bahamas: the Club Med Columbus, the beach resort on the remote island of San Salvador. And now, for the first time since the onset of the pandemic, the property […]

Bonaire Tourism Surpassing 2019 Levels

Bonaire is seeing continued strong tourism numbers this summer and into the fall, Caribbean Journal has learned. The Dutch Caribbean island reported just under 11,000 stay over visitors in September, which represented a 7 percent increase over September 2019, before […]

Jamaica Tourism Continues Strong Recovery

Jamaica’s already-strong tourism recovery is continuing, even in the face of new global challenges. The island’s summer 2022 totals eclipsed its pre-pandemic highs set in 2019, and Jamaica is now reporting nearly $6 billion in tourism earnings since its 2020 […]

Bermuda Tourism “Open For Business”

Hurricane Fiona passed roughly 75 miles to the west of Bermuda, giving the island a healthy dose of wind and rain. But the island says it is already back and open for tourism business. “Bermuda is ready to host visitors […]

Caribbean Tourism Organization Names New Chairman

The Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization has named a new chairman. The organization has elected Cayman Islands Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan to the role, following its annual general meeting in Grand Cayman this week. The meeting was held as part of […]

Jamaica Tourism Is Approaching a “Full Recovery”

Jamaica’s tourism sector is nearing a “full recovery” from the impact of the pandemic, according to Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett. “[The] good news is that Jamaica has now recovered 90 percent from the COVID-19 pandemic in the tourism sector,” Bartlett […]

The Dominican Republic Just Set an All-Time Tourism Record

Tourism in the Dominican Republic is growing at a dazzling pace in 2022, and the country just set another record. The month of July saw the most visitors to the Dominican Republic in a single month in the country’s history, […]

Talking Aviation and Tourism in St Maarten

The Caribbean’s first and longest-running conference laser-focussed on regional aviation, the sixth annual Caribavia Summit & Retreat was held at the Simpson Bay Resort on the Dutch side of the dual-nation island this week. The conference welcomed delegates from the U.S., […]

CDC Ends Return Test Requirement, in Major Boost for Caribbean Tourism

In a move celebrated across the wider travel industry, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lifted its requirement for travelers to test negative for Covid-19 before returning home to the United States from abroad. It’s the culmination […]

Aruba, Bahamas, USVI Leading Caribbean Tourism Renaissance

Aruba, The Bahamas and the US Virgin Islands are among the Caribbean destinations leading the region’s tourism renaissance. Indeed, the Caribbean’s tourism industry is bouncing back in a big way, with some destinations approaching or even exceeding record visitor arrival […]

Turks and Caicos Tourism Is Surging Right Now

Tourist arrival numbers continue to surge to Turks and Caicos, Caribbean Journal has learned. The destination’s numbers in the first quarter were just about even with what had been spectacular visitor arrivals in the first quarter of 2019. Indeed, Turks […]

The Cayman Islands’ Seven Mile Beach Has a Brand-New Resort