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JetBlue Is Bringing Back Fort Lauderdale Flights to the Cayman Islands This Winter

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The descent into Grand Cayman is always striking — turquoise water glinting in the sun, white sand stretching along the coast, and the island’s green interior unfolding below. Beginning this winter, that view will be within easy reach again from South Florida. JetBlue is resuming year-round flights from Ft. Lauderdale to Owen Roberts International Airport, […]

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Strong 2014 For St Maarten Tourism

Above: St Maarten (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Maarten’s tourism sector has had a very strong 2014, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. Through the third quarter of 2014, the country welcomed 377,341 stayover visitors, a 7.3 percent improvement over the same period in 2013. That number was buoyed […]

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Caribbean Hotel Occupancy Rises For Fifth Straight Month

Above: the British Virgin Islands (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff After a sluggish start to the year, the Caribbean hotel sector has rebounded of late, with hotel occupancy rising for the fifth consecutive month in October. The region’s hotel occupancy was 51.2 percent in the typically slow month of September, but that represented […]

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How Many People Visited the Caribbean in the First Half of 2014?

By the Caribbean Journal staff Tourist arrivals to the Caribbean rose by 4.3 percent in the first half of 2014, compared to the same period in 2013, according to data released by the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The data was released by Winfield Griffith, the CTO’s director of research and information technology, on the CTO’s TV […]


Caribbean Hotel Occupancy Rises For Fifth Straight Month

Above: Anguilla (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Anguilla saw a 2.6 percent improvement in the number of tourist stopover arrivals in the first half of 2014, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The island received a total of 40,426 stopover arrivals, led by a 4.8 percent improvement in the winter […]

Cozumel: Big Increase in Cruise Traffic

Above: Cozumel’s Puerta Maya cruise port By the Caribbean Journal staff The island of Cozumel off Mexico’s Caribbean coast is off to a very strong start in the cruise sector so far this year. Cozumel received 1.786 million cruise passenger arrivals in the first half of 2014, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism […]

St Lucia: Tourist Arrivals Rise 6 Percent in First Half of 2014

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff Tourist arrivals to St Lucia rose by 6 percent in the first half of 2014, according to data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The island received 176,017 stopover arrivals in the first half, a 6 percent improvement over the same period in 2013. The island’s success was […]

Aruba Tourism: Strong First Half of 2014

Above: Andicuri Beach in Aruba By the Caribbean Journal staff Aruba received 489,871 tourist stopover arrivals in the first six months of 2014, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. That represented a 5.3 percent improvement over the first half of 2013, according to the CTO. The number was buoyed by a particularly […]

Strong First Half For Belize Tourism

Above: Belize By the Caribbean Journal staff Belize’s tourism growth continued in the first half of 2014, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The country received a total of 185,996 stopover tourist arrivals from January to June, an 11.8 percent improvement over the same period in 2013. The winter season saw a […]

Grenada Sees Surge in Tourist Arrivals

Above: the Sandals LaSource Grenada Resort (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Tourism to Grenada is surging, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. Tourism stopover arrivals to the island increased by 18.6 percent in the first half of 2014, compared to the first six months of 2013, according to the CTO […]

Dominican Republic: Tourist Stopover Arrivals Up 8.4 Percent in 2014

Above: Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Dominican Republic’s tourism boom continues. The region’s leading tourism destination received just under 2.7 million tourist stopover arrivals in the first half of 2014, an 8.4 percent improvement over the same period in 2013, according to new data from the […]

Building Caribbean Data Journalism

By Gerard Best Op-Ed Contributor INTERNET USERS are bombarded daily with a vast world of digital content via news feeds, blogs, webcasts, live streams, image galleries, videoclips and sound bites. Access to huge information repositories is no longer restricted by the walls of a library or even the tether of a computer mouse. Mobile broadband […]