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The Caribbean Travel Awards 2026

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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 […]

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The Caribbean’s Happiest Island

The Caribbean’s happiest island may also be its most resilient. The latest edition of the United Nations’ World Happiness Report has been released, and one Caribbean island is at the top: Puerto Rico. Yes, Puerto Rico: despite its crippling economic crisis, the island was the top-ranked place on the list from the Caribbean. Puerto Rico […]

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How You Can Learn to Meditate in Puerto Rico

By Dana Niland CJ Contributor The St. Regis Bahia Beach Resort has launched a new meditation experience, Be Here, Be Now, in partnership with Michael Miller, Director of New York Meditation Center and London Meditate Centre. The experience offers guests access to Miller’s meditation expertise and provides them with guidance in connecting with the property’s […]

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This Is Your Next Caribbean Food Festival

It’s billed as the largest culinary festival in the Caribbean — and now it’s back again for a ninth year. Saborea, the Puerto Rico Hotel and Tourism Association’s culinary extravaganza on San Juan’s Playa Escambron, will take place from April 7 to 10, bringing together gastronomic creations from more than 70 local restaurants and gathering […]


How You Can Learn to Meditate in Puerto Rico

Is this the best view in all of San Juan, Puerto Rico? It’s certainly in the conversation. This is the view at one of the two new top-floor luxury penthouse suites at the San Juan Marriott Resort and Stellaris Casino, set in the increasingly chic neighborhood of Condado. The rooms are the 1094-square-foot Vice Presidential […]

A Major Caribbean Travel Conference Returns to Puerto Rico

The Caribbean’s biggest new travel conference, ETI, is coming again to Puerto Rico this May 11-14. ETI, or Expo de Turismo Internacional, will bring together hundreds of stakeholders with an interest in growing and selling Caribbean tourism. “The ETI 2016 event in Puerto Rico will be a key marketing event that allows travel agents, tour […]

Puerto Rico Tourism Arrivals Are Rising

Puerto Rico is seeing strong growth in tourism, according to the latest data. Puerto Rico reported 1.737 million stayover visitors in 2015, a 6.6 percent increase compared to 2014, according to tourism data provided to Caribbean Journal by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company. The island had a combined 5 million visitors considering cruise and stayover […]

The Best Adults-Only Hotels in the Caribbean

They aren’t easy to find — EP hotels in the Caribbean that are exclusively for adults. Sure, there are many hotels that don’t exactly encourage you to bring your children. But it’s hard to find an EP hotel in the Caribbean that only allows adult guests. Period. So if you are looking for a romantic getaway, […]

Real Estate Prices Are Rising Fast in This Puerto Rican Town

Puerto Rico’s economy has been struggling significantly in recent years — and that’s translated to the real estate market, too, where prices are dropping in most municipalities on the island. But that’s not the case in the resort town of Dorado, likely the only city in Puerto Rico actually showing gains in home prices, according […]

This Hotel in Puerto Rico Is For Sale

Another Caribbean hotel is on the block. The Lazy Parrott Inn in Rincon Puerto Rico is for sale, and its price has been reduced to $3.25 million, according to Puerto Rico Sotheby’s International Realty, which has the listing on the property. The hotel, which is located in the surfing town of Rincon, has a total […]

How to Make Ratatouille, Puerto Rican Style

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor In less than a month the streets of San Juan will be filled with the aromas and flavors of Puerto Rico as the island hosts it’s annual food festival, Saborea Puerto Rico. One of the highlights of the culinary extravaganza, which is scheduled for April 7 to 10, will […]

Caribbean Photo of the Week: Manati, Puerto Rico

The latest Caribbean Photo comes from Caribbean Journal reader Nolan Meadnis, who sent in this spectacular shot of the beach in Manati, Puerto Rico. Did you take a great photograph in the Caribbean? Send it to news@caribjournal.com with CPOTW in the subject line. It could be the next one! — CJ