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This Is the Hotel in Aruba to Ever Receive a MICHELIN Key – And It Got Two

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Boardwalk Boutique Hotel Aruba has entered a new league. The Palm Beach property has been awarded Two MICHELIN Keys by the MICHELIN Guide 2025 — making it the first hotel in Aruba ever to receive the distinction. It now joins a shortlist of 21 Caribbean destinations recognized in the inaugural MICHELIN Keys program. The award […]

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Four Seasons’ Caribbean Resort Pipeline 

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It’s been more than three decades since Isadore Sharp identified the potential of the tiny island of Nevis in the Eastern Caribbean, helping to create what would be one of the defining resorts in the Caribbean landscape. Now, a broad pipeline of new branded projects in development in the region bear the Four Seasons name, […]

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What’s in the Hotel Pipeline in Belize

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By Joe Pike, Special Contributor to CJI Caribbean Journal Invest (CJI) recently chatted with Anthony Mahler, Belize’s new tourism minister, about what hotel investors need to know about the properties coming onboard in the destination. Here’s what we learned.  The destination will welcome four new properties in 2021 and have already unveiled three revamped resorts. […]

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Jamaica's Hotel Pipeline: $2 Billion in New Projects

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Jamaica is set for a wave of new hotel projects over the next few years, according to Jamaica Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett.  The island is set for some $2 billion in new projects yielding more than 7,000 new hotel rooms, Bartlett said this week.  That includes 2,000 hotel rooms set to be developed by Princess […]


What’s in the Hotel Pipeline in Belize

By the Caribbean Journal staff Hotel construction in the Caribbean-Mexico region continues to boom, according to the latest numbers from analytics firm STR. The latest pipeline data for the Caribbean-Mexico region showed 31,968 rooms in construction across 155 projects in July, a 33.9 percent increase over July 2018. The region’s pipeline was led by the […]

Caribbean-Mexico Hotel Pipeline Keeps Growing

There were 39,434 hotel rooms across 226 projects under contract in the Caribbean and Mexico last month, according to the latest data from analytics firm STR. The total represented a 39 percent increase in rooms under contract compared to May 2016, according to the report. The Caribbean and Mexico reported a total of 13,503 rooms […]

Almost 17,000 Hotel Rooms in Caribbean-Mexico Construction Pipeline

By the Caribbean Journal staff There were 16,297 rooms across 92 hotel projects in construction in the Caribbean and Mexico last month, according to hotel analytics firm STR. That represented a 24.4 percent year-over-year increase based on the number of rooms. STR’s August Pipeline Report showed 41,116 rooms in 234 hotel projects under contract in […]

Caribbean Hotel Pipeline Continues to Grow

The Caribbean-Mexico hotel pipeline continues to grow, according to the latest numbers from data and analytics specialist STR. There were a total of 31,782 rooms across 191 projects under contract in the Caribbean and Mexico in November, a 13.6 percent increase compared to November 2015. Under Contract data includes projects in the In Construction, Final […]

Dominican Republic Still Leads Caribbean Hotel Pipeline

The Dominican Republic continues to lead the Caribbean hotel construction pipeline, according to the latest report from analytics firm STR. The country has 1,512 rooms in construction spread across six hotels. That’s followed in the wider Caribbean region by Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, which has 1,497 rooms in construction across eight hotels. Overall, the wider Caribbean/Mexico […]

Caribbean-Mexico Hotel Construction Pipeline at 29,113 Rooms

Slight increase in rooms under contract By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean-Mexico Hotel Construction Pipeline is up to 167 hotels and 29,113 rooms, according to the latest STR Construction Pipeline report. That represented a 3.5 percent increase in rooms under contract compared to July 2014, and a 4.5 percent year-over-year increase in rooms under […]

Caribbean-Mexico Hotel Pipeline at 28,046 Rooms

By the Caribbean Journal staff There are 164 hotels totaling 28,046 rooms under contract in the Caribbean-Mexico region, according to the latest STR Construction Pipeline Report. That represented a 4.7 percent decrease in rooms under contract compared with October 2014, and a 12.9 percent year-over-year decrease in rooms under construction. STR’s under contract data includes […]

Luxury Hotels Leading Caribbean-Mexico Hotel Pipeline

By the Caribbean Journal staff Luxury hotels are dominating the number of hotels in construction in the Caribbean and Mexico, according to the latest STR Construction Pipeline Report. There were 171 hotels and 29,846 rooms under contract in the wider region in April, according to the report, up 11.4 percent from the number of rooms […]