When the final tallies come in, more than 35 million people will likely have visited the Caribbean as overnight guests in 2025 — around 4 percent more than the previous year, and about 3 percent more than in 2019. That’s along with another 38 million arriving on a cruise ship. In other words, travelers continue […]
The Dreams brand has a new property in the Dominican Republic, Caribbean Travel Advisor has learned. Hyatt’s family-friendly brand has officially opened the new Dreams Cap Cana resort in the most exclusive enclave of Punta Cana. The newest Dreams in the region has 519 rooms and suites in a location on one of our favorite […]
You can see the ships. They’re in just about every port in the Caribbean, bringing thousands of passengers to their shores. But what’s not always clear is how much money these passengers are actually spending in the Caribbean. But a new report from the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association sheds significant light on that question. And one […]
It was back in 2013 at the DATE conference, the Dominican Republic’s annual local tourism conference. Then-Vice Minister Radhames Martinez Aponte took the stage and boldly declared a big goal for the country: 10 million annual visitors by 2023. At the time, it was ambitious. Very ambitious. But after a sustained boom driven by a […]
