Saint Lucia’s new Sapphire Sands Villas brings a villa-first luxury resort to Reduit Beach, with flexible beachfront accommodations, private plunge pools and around-the-clock butler service. Sapphire Sands Villas is now open on Reduit Beach in Saint Lucia, and the new property from Bay Gardens Resorts is something notably different for both the island and the […]
It’s not Punta Cana. It’s not Puerto Plata or Santo Domingo. In fact, it’s one of the hottest Caribbean destinations you’ve never heard of: the beach-filled Miches in the Dominican Republic, an area on Samana Bay that has quietly become one of the region’s centers for new hotel development. Now, the Caribbean’s fastest-growing all-inclusive brand […]
It’s the fastest-growing tourism destination in the Caribbean’s largest tourism destination: Miches, the beach spot on the southeastern corner of Samana Bay in the Dominican Republic. It’s already home to a Club Med and a Temptation, with more hotels on the way — including a pair that just broke ground this week: a new La […]
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 […]
