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After Record-Breaking Year, Dominican Republic Tourism Keeps Surging
The Dominican Republic set a record for stayover tourist arrivals last year, with the most stayover arrivals in the country’s history and the most of any Caribbean destination, well, ever. So how are things going in 2024? Even better. The […]
The Island of Bonaire Just Set an All-Time Tourism Record
The Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire set an all-time record for tourism last year, according to new data from Tourism Corporation Boniare. The island welcomed 169,706 visitors in 2023, a number that was 8 percent higher than its total in […]
The Bahamas Is Breaking Tourism Records as Cruise, Air Arrivals Boom
From the shores of Nassau Paradise Island to the sandbars of the Exumas, The Bahamas is booming. And as cruise passengers and air arrivals continue to flock to the country, The Bahamas just set an all-time record for visitors in […]
Puerto Rico Is Breaking Tourism Records
From hotel occupancy to new flights to cruise ship arrivals, Puerto Rico is breaking many of its tourism records, according to Carlos Mercado Santiago, the executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company. The destination’s numbers from the just-closed fiscal […]
Another Quarter, Another Dominican Republic Tourism Record
The Dominican Republic’s blazing start to 2022 has continued, with the destination breaking another record for the first three months of the year. The Caribbean hotspot welcomed 2,076,171 people in the first quarter, its highest total for the first quarter […]
New Bermuda Tourism CEO to Lead Island’s Recovery Push
The Bermuda Tourism Authority has a new chief executive officer: Tracy Berkeley, who has been serving as the organization’s Interim CEO since June of last year. Berkeley, who has been with the Bermuda Tourism Authority since January 2020, will be […]
Bermuda Eyes Tourism Recovery After Challenging Year
While Bermuda isn’t quite back at its sizzling tourism numbers from before the pandemic, the island is starting to show signs of a full-fledged recovery. Despite challenges amid the pandemic (including what were the strictest travel health rules in the […]
Bonaire Tourism “Has Recovered” From the Pandemic
Bonaire has officially completed its “recovery” from the pandemic, finishing off a stellar 2022 with more visitors than in 2019. The Dutch Caribbean hotspot reported an increase of 12,394 visitors over 2019, exceeding pre-pandemic levels. In fact, December 2022 was […]
Dominican Republic Tops 7 Million Tourists, Setting New Record
No Caribbean destination welcomed more travelers last year than the Dominican Republic. And it wasn’t particularly close. The surging tourism destination surpassed seven million visitors in 2022, the first time the country has every achieved that milestone, and a new […]
Curacao Just Set Its All-Time Tourism Record
Curacao has set an all-time record for tourist arrivals, Caribbean Journal has learned. The island welcomed just under 490,000 visitors in 2022, a new record for annual visitation. It was a remarkable turnaround for an island that saw a slow […]
Jamaica Reporting Record-Breaking Tourism Earnings
Jamaica’s strong recovery from the pandemic is leading to record-breaking tourism revenues for the island, according to the country’s Minister of Tourism. Minsiter Edmund Bartlett say the island ended the year with tourism earnings of $3.64 billion. “The 2022-2023 fiscal […]
Grenada Is Breaking Tourism Records
Grenada is seeing visitor numbers ahead of its record-breaking pace from 2019, before the onset of the pandemic. The island just saw its visitor numbers surpass its pre-pandemic totals for the third consecutive month. That included 14,232 visitors in November, […]
Jamaica Eyes “Record” Winter Tourist Season
Jamaica is projecting a “record” winter tourist season, according to Jamaica Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett. The winter tourism season typically begins Dec. 15, running through mid-April Bartlett said the island is projecting a total fo 1.3 million seats, more than […]
Curacao Tourism “Fully Recovered,” Setting New Records
Curacao is now “fully recovered” from the impact of the pandemic, tourism officials said this week. The Curacao Tourist Board is reporting 355,661 stayover visitor arrivals in the first three quarters of 2022, a 103 percent increase compared to the […]
Jamaica Tourism Continues Strong Recovery
Jamaica’s already-strong tourism recovery is continuing, even in the face of new global challenges. The island’s summer 2022 totals eclipsed its pre-pandemic highs set in 2019, and Jamaica is now reporting nearly $6 billion in tourism earnings since its 2020 […]
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, […]
A “Strong” Tourism Recovery in Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia says it is experiencing a “strong” post-pandemic tourism recovery. The island has achieved around 80 percent of its pre-pandemic stay over arrival numbers, as compared to the same period in 2019, according to tourism officials. And now Saint […]
In Saba, The Caribbean’s Pioneering Eco-Tourism Month
The tiny Dutch Caribbean island of Saba has been at the forefront of the eco-tourism movement for decades. And a big part of that has been the island’s popular Sea & Learn Month, a beloved program focused on raising awareness […]
Antigua and Barbuda Is Breaking Records, Leading Caribbean Tourism Recovery
Tourism in Antigua and Barbuda is breaking all-time records, buoyed by a surge in visits from the United States, Caribbean Journal has learned. The surge has made the country one of the hottest destinations in the Caribbean, particularly in the […]
Jamaica Tourism Is Approaching a “Full Recovery”
Jamaica’s tourism sector is nearing a “full recovery” from the impact of the pandemic, according to Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett. “[The] good news is that Jamaica has now recovered 90 percent from the COVID-19 pandemic in the tourism sector,” Bartlett […]
The Dominican Republic Just Set an All-Time Tourism Record
Tourism in the Dominican Republic is growing at a dazzling pace in 2022, and the country just set another record. The month of July saw the most visitors to the Dominican Republic in a single month in the country’s history, […]
Sandals Opening Helps Curacao Tourism Break Record
For whatever reason, Curacao has struggled for years to draw travelers in significant numbers to the United States. But that’s now changing, for one major reason: the opening of the new Sandals Royal Curacao. In the first month after the […]
CHTA: Small Businesses Essential To Caribbean Tourism Recovery
Ensuring the resilience of small tourism businesses is essential to the Caribbean’s recovery, according to the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association. “The challenges to post-disaster business continuity of STEs in the Caribbean are many and varied,” said Nicola Madden-Greig, Jamaican […]
Another Month, Another Dominican Republic Tourism Record
The Dominican Republic’s sizzling 2022 continued last month with yet another arrivals record broken, Caribbean Journal has learned. The country reported 561,323 tourist arrivals in May, the most of any May in the destination’s history. Indeed, that total was 11 […]
The Dominican Republic Just Set Another Tourism Record
The Dominican Republic just set another tourism record, Caribbean Journal has learned. The country reported 626,010 tourist arrivals in April — the most visitors in April in the history of the destination. That number represents 7 percent more than April 2019 […]
Bahamas: “Positive Progress Towards Tourism Recovery”
The Bahamas is making “positive progress toward tourism recovery,” according to Chester Cooper, Bahamas Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism. The country recently saw its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention travel recommendation improved, lowering the country’s advisory from […]
Montego Bay, Jamaica Sets Pandemic Tourism Record
Jamaica’s tourism hub of Montego Bay has set a new record for tourism arrivals in a single day since the onset of the pandemic. Last Saturday, the island welcomed 7,000 passengers to Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport, the most in […]
Dominican Republic Tourism Is Breaking Pre-Pandemic Records
Tourism in the Dominican Republic set yet another record last month, with a total of 519,349 tourist arrivals. Fo the year, the country has reported 4.263 million tourist arrivals, according to Tourism minister David Collado. The November total was a […]
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