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This Under-the-Radar Caribbean Island Has Reef Sharks, Beach Bungalows, and a Different Kind of Dive Resort

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You spend the day diving bottomless blue holes. Discovering thick finger coral and hobnobbing with reef sharks, eagle rays and regal seahorses. Then you get out of the water and find the perfect sunset on a totally uncrowded white-sand beach.  I remember the first time I visited Cape Eleuthera, way down at the southeastern corner […]

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CTO Grenada Conference to Focus on Caribbean Recovery

By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean’s leading tourism conference is coming to Grenada next week, with a major focus on recovery and rebuilding in the region in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The Caribbean Tourism Organization’s State of the Industry Conference, which will be held at the Radisson Grenada, will include a […]

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Airbnb Is Booming in the Caribbean

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Airbnb hosts in the Caribbean and Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico have earned more than $266 million so far in 2017, according to the company’s latest data report. These destinations have attracted nearly 2 million guest arrivals this year, representing a 170 percent increase from the same eight months in 2016. The report comes as Airbnb […]

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CHTA Looks to Deepen Partnership With Dominican Republic

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The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association looking to deepen its partnership and outreach to hoteliers and tourism partners in the Dominican Republic. As part of a new agreement, the National Association of Hotels and Restaurants in the Dominican Republic, ASONAHORES, will launch a center of tourism information which will share with CHTA and its members […]


Airbnb Is Booming in the Caribbean

The Caribbean Tourism Organization is looking to deepen its relationship with the Middle East’s largest tour operator. The Barbados-based regional tourism development agency is meeting this week with Emirates Holidays at the Arabian Travel Market to build on the relationship which began last year when the CTO conducted an in-house training program in Dubai for […]

Haiti Seeing Continued Tourism Growth

Renewed tourism push continues to pay off By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti is showing continued growth in stayover tourist arrivals, according to recently released data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The Caribbean country reported 166,029 stayover arrivals in the first four months of 2014, up 9.8 percent compared to the same period in 2014. The […]

Caribbean Tourism Organization Names New Chair

The Bahamas is the new chair of the Caribbean Tourism Organization, following the election of Bahamian Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe at the State of the Industry Conference this week. Wilchcombe succeeds Barbados Tourism Minister Richard Sealy, and will serve a two-year term. Wilchcombe had previously served as chairman in 2002. “I intend to build upon […]

Grenada Tourism Up 4.7 Percent in First Quarter of 2015

Above: Grenada (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Tourism is on the rise in the Spice Isle. Tourist arrivals to Grenada were up 4.7 percent in the first three months of 2015, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. There were a total of 38,000 visitors to the island in the first […]

How Many People Visited Belize in 2014

Above: Belize By the Caribbean Journal staff Belize received 321,217 stopover tourist arrivals in 2014, according to year-end data released by the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The Central American country on the coast of the Caribbean Sea saw a strong 9.2 percent improvement compared to 2013. That made Belize among the fastest-growing destinations in the Caribbean […]

Haiti Continues Strong Tourism Growth

Above: Haiti By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s strong tourism growth continued in 2014, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The country, which has been developing a long-dormant sector in recent years, received a total of 465,174 stayover visitors last year, according to the CTO. That represented a 10.8 percent improvement over […]

Grenada Reports 18.4 Percent Increase in Tourist Arrivals

Above: Grenada (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The island of Grenada received 133,521 tourist arrivals in 2014, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. That represented an 18.4 percent increase over 2013, the highest rate of any CARICOM member state. The country’s tourism sector was boosted by a very strong summer […]

Dominican Republic Tops 5 Million Tourist Arrivals

Above: Cap Cana (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Dominican Republic received around 5.14 million tourists in 2014, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. That number was the largest of any tourism destination in the Caribbean; the next-largest was Cuba, with just over 3 million. The country’s totals represented a […]