Search Result for: mail

333 results found.

Davidoff Joining Caribbean Rum Awards in St Barth

Global luxury brand Davidoff is joining this year’s Caribbean Rum Awards in St Barth. The Switzerland-based premium cigar and accessory company will be the official cigar company of Caribbean Journal’s Caribbean Rum Awards, which take place from Nov. 10-Nov. 15, […]

A Leading US Virgin Islands Hotel Is For Sale

The leading boutique hotel in St Croix, US Virgin Islands is for sale, Caribbean Journal Invest has learned. The Fred, the new boutique hotel that’s brought a major injection of energy into Frederiksted, St Croix, has been listed for sale […]

The Only Hotel on This Bahamas Island Is For Sale

There’s just one hotel on Great Harbour Cay in The Bahamas, a tucked-away retreat that’s a favorite of jetsetters and adventurers. And now it’s for sale. The Carriearl Boutique Hotel, the four-unit hotel on Great Harbour Cay, has been listed […]

Antigua’s Top Restaurant Is Open Again

Sheer Rocks, the most celebrated restaurant on the island of Antigua, is open again. The Ffryes Beach-area hotspot officially reopened its doors this week after having shifted to delivery and take-out during the lockdown. “Sheer Rocks is designed perfectly to […]

Webinar: The Caribbean Travel Outlook for 2020

What’s next for the Caribbean travel industry? How will it begin to rebound amid COVID-19? What’s the outlook for demand? A webinar June 2 will gather regional travel industry leaders for a roundtable discussion on the next steps for the […]

Featured Listing: A Prime Oceanfront Resort Site in Bonaire

At the edge of the southern Caribbean, Bonaire represents one of the great untapped resort opportunities in the Caribbean — and it’s outside of the hurricane belt to boot. Long a niche destination for diving, Bonaire has quietly become one of […]

A Private Island in Belize for $550,000

Demand for Caribbean private-island real estate is booming — as more people look to escape crowded cities and find seclusion in the tropics. But not every private island comes with a large price tag. That brings us to a new listing […]

STR: March Data Shows Extent of Pandemic’s Impact on Caribbean Hotels

By Rico Louw Client Account Manager, STR HENDERSONVILLE, Tennessee—Showing the harsh impact of COVID-19 travel limitations and mitigation efforts, Caribbean hotels reported double-digit declines in occupancy and revenue per available room (RevPAR) during March, according to data from STR. […]

Serenade Punta Cana Focusing on Travel Advisors Ahead of September Debut

The Serenade Punta Cana Beach, Spa and Casino Resort, which is planning to open in September, is putting its focus on travel advisors. The Dominican Republic property has launched a new program for travel advisors with special rates from Oct. […]

Featured Listing: A Luxury Villa in Tortola for $9.5 Million

One of the leading villas in the British Virgin Islands is on the market. St Bernard’s Hill House, long one of the premier estates in the BVI, is listed for $9.5 million with Smiths Gore. The five-bedroom, six-bathroom estate is […]

Jimmy Buffett Is Releasing a New Studio Album in May

Music legend (and Caribbean lover) Jimmy Buffett is releasing a brand-new studio album in May. It’s called “Life on the Flip Side,” and it will be released on May 29 on Mailboat Records. The record is Buffett’s first studio album […]

The Outlook for the Hotel Business in the Dominican Republic

By Joe Pike, Special Contributor Lucien Echavarria, Northeast director of the Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism, is both optimistic and cautious when predicting just how and when her country’s hotels will reopen to the world following the coronavirus. Echavarria, who […]

How Caribbean Real Estate Is Going Virtual

By Alexander Britell Beyond the ways the coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we move, shop and interact, it’s also changing the way real estate transacts. While much deal activity, particularly on the residential side, has slowed, the movement that […]

Mark Gaus on What’s Next for Real Estate in the Cayman Islands

By Alexander Britell, Editor-in-Chief, CJI It’s hard to imagine that there was a hotter real estate market in the Caribbean in recent years, with surging development from beachfront condos to residential resorts. So what’s next for Cayman in the midst […]

From St Maarten to Punta Cana, 10 Beaches to Dream About

We’re all thinking of the Caribbean right now, and in an uneasy time the region’s beauty and its people inspire us to be hopeful about tomorrow. In the meantime, imagining ourselves on stunning Caribbean beaches is a form of solace […]

Featured Listing: A Beachfront Parcel in Barbuda

After its near destruction by Hurricane Irma in 2017, Barbuda is quietly making a comeback, with several projects on stream: most notably, the Barbuda Ocean Club, a massive new development by Discovery Land Company, and a long-awaited project by Robert […]

From Aruba to St Croix, 10 Beaches to Dream About

The sound of the surf, the smell of the salt air; the feeling when your toes hit powder-soft sand. Beaches are more than just places, more than scenery; they’re their own states of mind, their own dimensions. And we could […]

24 Movies That Will Take You to the Caribbean Right Now

When Hollywood goes looking for a location that oozes tropical romance, it often turns to the Caribbean, which has been starring in both independent and big-budget films since the 1930s. Conversely, a handful of films produced in the Caribbean have […]

How Bermuda Is Promoting Its Digital Arrival Card

It’s quite an innovation in the wider Caribbean-Atlantic region: Bermuda’s digital arrival card. Instead of long waits at the immigration line, Bermuda give travelers the opportunity to fill out their immigration forms digitally in advance of their trips. But uptake […]

CJ Invest

This Subscriber Agreement and Terms of Use (this “Agreement”) governs your use of all digital products and services from Caribjournal.com and newsletters (“Caribbean Journal Invest”) that are made available from time to time, including without limitation, any Web pages, services, […]

Caribbean Hotels Open 2020 With Declines

Caribbean hotels opened 2020 with the region’s lowest January occupancy level since 2011, according to data from STR. For the month, occupancy was down 3.7% year over year to 66.5%. Average daily rate (ADR) also fell 1.5% to US$253.09, […]

In St Barth, Finding The Rhythm of Caribbean Rum

My journey started with the thrill of the prop plane nosing down for a “bombs away” landing at the Gustaf III airport runway, one of the shortest in the world, as the landing gear of the Tradewind Aviation plane hammered […]

Caribbean Hotel Industry Just Set New Records: Report

The Caribbean hotel industry reached its highest levels ever in average daily rate (ADR) and revenue per available room (RevPAR), according to 2019 data from STR. For the year, the region posted a year-over-year ADR increase of 5.6 percent […]

Caribbean Hotel Industry Could Set New Highs

With one month of data remaining to process, the Caribbean’s hotel industry has a shot to reach its highest levels ever in average daily rate (ADR) and revenue per available room (RevPAR). Year to date through November, the region […]

Caribbean Hotel Rates Climb Back Up — Slightly

After a September that produced the year’s first decline in average daily rate (ADR), Caribbean hoteliers pushed room-rate comparisons back into positive territory during October 2019. In comparison with last October, ADR rose 0.4 percent even as occupancy fell 5.2 […]

St Barth to Host 2020 Caribbean Rum Awards

The Caribbean’s leading celebration of rum is returning to St Barth next year for another week-long festival featuring the best of Caribbean rum and rhum agricole. The Caribbean Rum Awards, a partnership of Caribbean Journal and the Saint Barth Rum […]

Caribbean Hotel Room Rates Are Getting Lower

It was bound to happen. After six straight months of occupancy declines in the Caribbean, the region’s hotel room rates were down in year-over-year comparisons for the first time in 2019. Compared with September 2018, Caribbean hotel occupancy dropped […]

The Caribbean’s Most Exclusive Rum Event Is Coming to St Barth

The Caribbean’s most exclusive island is the new home of a major Caribbean rum event. Caribbean Journal’s Caribbean Rum Awards, the region’s leading celebration of premium rums, is coming to St Barth from Nov. 6-10. The second edition of the […]

This Is the Best-Value All-Inclusive Vacation in the Caribbean