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St Kitts Is Getting Two Major New Museums

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The historic Fort Thomas property in St Kitts, is entering a bold new chapter. The 8.7-acre site, long a silent witness to Saint Kitts’ past, will soon be home to a transformative $30 million development that blends culture, education, and tourism. Prime Minister Terrance Drew led the official groundbreaking for The Symbol of Love Museum […]

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“Sunny Day,” Antigua’s New Reggae Hit, Is the Soundtrack to Your Next Island Escape

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There’s something about Antigua. The softness of the sand. Those tucked-away little coves. The uncrowded beaches. A single day in Antigua can change the way you think about the world, about life. And the island’s newest music hit is rooted in that feeling.  It’s called “Sunny Day,” and it’s the newest release by music legend […]

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Why the Tourism Industry Is Meeting Up in Antigua, and What’s Ahead for Caribbean Travel Marketplace 2025

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Buyers. Suppliers. Tourism directors. Government ministers. It’s a who’s who of the travel industry, and the most important gathering of its kind for the Caribbean — a region where tourism is part of the fabric of just about everything. This year’s Caribbean Travel Marketplace, the annual event organized by the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association, […]

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There’s a New Way to Arrive on This Caribbean Island, Famous For Its Beaches, Honeymoons and History 

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It’s already one of our favorite airports in the Caribbean: the sparkling VC Bird International Airport, the primary hub for the increasingly-popular hotspot of Antigua and Barbuda, a Caribbean island famous for its beaches (365 of them, to be exact), its place as a honeymoon destination and its UNESCO World Heritage site. And now it’s […]


Why the Tourism Industry Is Meeting Up in Antigua, and What’s Ahead for Caribbean Travel Marketplace 2025

The Caribbean has no shortage of headline-making beaches — Seven Mile, Grace Bay, Eagle Beach — and they deserve the spotlight, too. But tucked away across the region are lesser-known gems, quiet strands with local charm, raw beauty, and the feeling that, when you arrive, you’ve made your own personal discovery.  These are the kinds […]

Why Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Dominica, Guyana, Saint-Martin, and Turks and Caicos Tourism Officials Are Heading to Brazil 

It’s an increasingly important market for the Caribbean: South America, the continent on the southern coastline of the Caribbean Sea, and one that continues to send more travelers to its destinations.  In recent years, countries like Colombia, Brazil and Argentina have contributed an increasingly large share of the tourism pie in the region. Now, the […]

The Caribbean Direct Booking Summit Is Coming to Antigua 

It’s what every Caribbean hotel wants more of: direct business. That means when consumers forego larger online travel agent options like Expedia and go right to the hotel website. It means a deeper relationship between customer and hotel, and, more importantly, commission-free revenue for the property. But how do you do it? That’s the focus […]

Caribbean Airline LIAT 20 Is Now Flying Every Day of the Week 

Antigua. Barbuda. Dominica. Barbados. Grenada. Jamaica. They’re just some of the Caribbean islands upstart carrier LIAT 20 is now serving, and the carrier just upped its frequency.  LIAT 20 is now flying around the Caribbean seven days of the week, the company confirmed, a big step for the company’s intra-regional growth.  That now means flights […]

Antigua and Barbuda’s Sizzling Food Scene Has Another Must-Visit Event: Culinary Month  

Antigua and Barbuda’s food scene is sizzling right now, and the destination’s already-popular culinary series just got bigger, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The destination has unveiled a new festival called Antigua and Barbuda Culinary Month, which will run throughout the month of May.  There’s a bit of everything, from the popular Eat Like a Local […]

Antigua and Barbuda Names New Tourism Advisory Committee, With 10 Travel Advisors 

Antigua and Barbuda has named 10 top travel advisors to the destination’s Tourism Advisory Committee.  The new agents include Paula McCarty, Travel Smart with Paula; Natalie Fagglanelli, Bayside Travel; Kimberly Jacoby, Romantics Travel; Donna Blasi, Blissful Honeymoons and Destination Weddings; Mark Hennigan, Destination Weddings and Honeymoon Specialist; Kathy Brancifort, First Class Travel; Viviane Gringer, Travel Edge; Roberta Long-Keileher, Protravel International; Daren Southgate, Tzell Long Island and Sally Smith, Travelsmiths. “I am encouraged […]

The 50 Best Restaurants in the Caribbean - 2025

No region in the world has a more diverse or dynamic culinary continuum than the Caribbean. Just about every cuisine on earth is represented, often in wonderfully, intoxicatingly fused expressions. Across the breadth of the Caribbean Basin, you will find an unmatched gastronomic mosaic. And if you’ve been to the region recently, you know that […]

The Caribbean Island Of Barbuda Is Getting Ready for Its Big Moment, With a New Airport and Robert De Niro’s Beachfront Nobu On the Way  

It was a Caribbean island favored by Princess Diana (one of its beaches still bears her name), famous for its endless stretches of white and pink sand, one of those remote places whose very name conjured up the thrill of the exotic.  For years, Barbuda was something of a fantasy, a beautiful hidden-away island a […]