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After Setting New Record, Turks and Caicos Real Estate Keeps Surging

By Joe Pike, Special Contributor to CJI To access this content, subscribe now. Caribbean Journal Invest is the leading authority on hotel, real estate and investment news in the Caribbean. Subscribe today to unlock this article and receive our newsletter, […]

Barbados to Host Caribbean Travel Marketplace in 2023

The Caribbean’s biggest travel conference is coming to Barbados this spring, Caribbean Journal has learned. The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s Caribbean Travel Marketplace conference will be held in Barbados May 9-11, 2023. The annual event, which was held last […]

Building the Caribbean’s Best Tennis (And Pickleball) Courts

If you’ve played tennis at a top Caribbean resort, chances are it was built by one company: Agile Courts, which has been building courts around the United States and the Caribbean for what is now a half century. To access […]

The 10 Hottest Aruba Resorts for 2023

Aruba is sizzling, and not just because it’s so close to the equator. The southern Caribbean hotspot has been one of the most popular destinations in the region since the onset of the pandemic, having nimbly handled its tourism protocols […]

The Cayman Islands’ Star-Studded Culinary Festival Is Back

One of the Caribbean’s most celebrated culinary festivals is making its triumphant return this week in Grand Cayman. Cayman Cookout, the Eric Ripert-hosted gastronomic experience at the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman is back for the first time since the onset of […]

The 23 Best Caribbean Islands to Visit in 2023

Can you believe it has been nearly three years since the world changed? In that span, the destinations of the Caribbean have undergone a tumultuous, frantic, whirring upheaval, one that turned from total static to what is today an abundant, […]

From the Cayman Islands to Jamaica, 15 Tiny Beach Resorts to Try

Tucked-away bungalows on a minuscule island in Cayman. A secret oasis in St Barth. An eco-retreat on a perfect stretch of white sand. These are the tiny beach resorts we all dream about during months of endless blizzards. So […]

The 20 Best Hotels in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico has never been hotter, buoyed by a pandemic-era boom that filled its hotels to capacity and put a new travel spotlight on the destination. It seems like new flights routes launch just about every week to the island, […]

How to Move to Antigua and Barbuda, Explained

The 20 Best Plunge Pool Resorts in the Caribbean

More and more travelers are looking for it, and the more you travel the Caribbean the more you realize what a precious amenity it really is: the private plunge pool. There is just something special about having your own pool, […]

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In Falmouth, Jamaica, a Different Kind of All-Inclusive Resort

Resorts with superlatives in their names don’t always live up to their promises, but there really is a lot that’s excellent about the Excellence Oyster Bay, an adults-only all-inclusive resort located on a private peninsula just outside the town of […]

The Caribbean Travel Awards 2023

If 2021 in the Caribbean was a year of recovery, 2022 has been a year of unmistakable, unprecedented rebirth. The Caribbean has never been hotter, with just about every destination nearing (or now exceeding) its pre-pandemic travel totals, and the […]

The Ultimate Caribbean Scuba Diving Destination

First there was Christopher Columbus, met by the waters of Guanahani in 1492. And then, 530 years later, there was SpongeBob. SpongeBob is a 25-pound Nassau Grouper that calls Long Bay home, the most famous current resident of a bay […]

Travelers Are Flocking to Curacao Right Now

It’s hard to say precisely when the renaissance began. It might have been in March, when Curacao became one of the first Caribbean destinations to remove its pre-testing requirements. Or perhaps it was June, when the new Sandals Royal Curacao […]

St Barth Festival Crowns Best Rums in the Caribbean

It began with a rooftop, oceanfront tasting of ultra-rare Martinique rum at St Barth’s magnificent Le Barthelemy Hotel and Spa. It concluded with a rum festival right at the water’s edge in Gustavia, bookended by superyachts. And in between, the […]

Building the New British Virgin Islands

By Alexander Britell It’s been a “wild ride” for the British Virgin Islands in the last half decade, first with a storm and then a pandemic. But one company has been at the forefront of the British Overseas Territory’s reconstruction […]

St. Thomas’ New Marriott Resort Is Powered by Clean Energy

By Alexander Britell It’s the biggest new resort project in the US Virgin Islands, and the new Frenchman’s Reef dual-property destination resort is unique in another way: it’s powered by clean energy. The Marriott resort, which is opening soon and […]

Caribbean Moment: Isla Verde Beach, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is one of the most beautiful places in the Caribbean. Not that you’d necessarily know it — due to a combination of highly unfavorable media coverage, poor marketing and unfortunately resilient misconceptions, it’s an island that still remains a […]

Marriott Set to Debut New Resorts in St Thomas, USVI

Marriott will be debuting a pair of highly-anticipated new resorts in St Thomas, USVI this fall. The new Frenchman’s Reef, St Thomas’ most iconic hotel property, will reopen this winter with a pair of resorts: the The Seaborn, part of […]

Bahamas Tourism Is Booming, With Plans For a Record-Breaking 2023

Tourism in The Bahamas is booming right now, according to new data from the country’s Ministry of Tourism. Air and sea arrivals to The Bahamas are up a whopping 515.6 percent this year compared to the same period in 2021, […]

Could “Dynamic Taxation” Help Caribbean Air Travel?

Could a new kind of “dynamic taxation system” fix the problem of high air ticket prices in the Caribbean? That’s the idea by Nicola Madden-Greig, the president of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association. Madden-Greig says the “heavy burden” of […]

“Puerto Rico Is Open and Safe to Travel To”

Puerto Rico tourism officials are urging visitors to maintain their planned trips to Puerto Rico following Hurricane Fiona. “We want to assure visitors, who already planned travel to San Juan, that Puerto Rico is open and safe to travel to,” […]

On This Caribbean Island, You Can Live on the Beach for Less

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The BVI’s Jost Van Dyke Has Its First Luxury Hotel

There’s a new luxury hotel on one of the most beloved little islands in the Caribbean: Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands. Jost, as it’s affectionately known, has long been famous for its enviable collection of world-famous beach […]

5 Secret Caribbean Beach Hotels to Try Right Now

There’s nothing like a Caribbean hotel that’s right on the sand. There’s nothing standing between you and a blissful morning bobbing in the ocean, lazing at the edge of the waves, listening to the Caribbean’s original album. Sure, you can […]

The Baha Mar Cup Is Back in The Bahamas

The third annual edition of the Baha Mar Cup tennis tournament is back this year in Nassau, The Bahamas. The celebrity tennis fundraising event will run from Dec. 9-11, playing host to tennis greats including Andy Roddick, Victoria Azarenka and […]

How to Move to The Bahamas, Explained

In Turks and Caicos, a Classic Caribbean Beach Resort

It began early after TCI’s tourism reopening during the pandemic, with travelers drawn to the archipelago’s rare combination of sanctuary and seclusion, a spread-out, sand-filled fantasy. Since the summer of 2020, Turks and Caicos has seen a wave of new […]

In Grenada, the Caribbean’s Best New Luxury Resort