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The Best Room at Park Hyatt St. Kitts Is a Two-Story Villa With a Rooftop Infinity Pool

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A look inside the resort’s two-story villa, where the entire upper floor is a private rooftop with an infinity pool, dining pergolas and sunbeds — and the deck nearly outsizes the rooms below. Most hotel rooms give you a balcony. The One Bedroom Bi-Level Villa with Rooftop Pool at Park Hyatt St. Kitts gives you […]

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The Dominican Republic Just Eclipsed 10 Million Total Visitors. Again. 

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It seems like every month is another new record for the Dominican Republic of late. And the truth is, that’s precisely what’s been happening. The country’s breakneck tourism growth pace hasn’t slowed down in the last two years, as its record-shattering tourism arrivals have continued.  The latest milestone? The country just welcomed its 10 millionth […]

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Dominican Republic Tourism Keeps Surging, Topping 9 Million Total Visitors 

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The Dominican Republic’s record-breaking tourism pace continued last month, with the Caribbean’s most popular tourism destination topping 9 million visitors so far this year.  Through the end of October, the country recorded 9.082 million visitors, a 10 percent increase compared to the same period last year — and a 47 percent jump compared to the first […]

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Visitor Growth Continues for the Cayman Islands

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Tourism numbers in the Cayman Islands continue to climb, according to new data provided to Caribbean Journal by the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism.  The destination is reporting 330,514 total visitors between January and September 2024.  That number included 57,040 visitors in March — the second-highest monthly total in the territory’s history.  The US market […]


Dominican Republic Tourism Keeps Surging, Topping 9 Million Total Visitors 

For Caribbean tourism, the key is to “customize: the experience to “fit diverse trailers needs across the region’s many unique destinations,” according to Caribbean Tourism Organization Secretary General Dona Regis-Prosper.  The CTO chief, who was speaking on a panel in London this week during the World Travel Market conference, said it was important fo {“find […]

Mandarin Oriental, Soho Beach House Reopening on Caribbean Island of Canouan 

It was one of the most devastating storms in the Caribbean in recent memory, as powerful as it was swift. Hurricane Beryl blew through the southeastern Caribbean in July, leaving devastation in its wake, particularly on islands like Union Island and Carriacou.  While the recovery of the Grenadine islands is still in process, one bright […]

Dominican Republic Tourism Just Made History. Again. 

It’s been another record-breaking year for the Dominican Republic, which remains the most-visited destination in the wider Caribbean by a rather significant margin.  Now, the country made history again, topping 8.362 million visitors in the first three quarters of 2024, the most ever in that period of a year.  That was buoyed by a strong […]

Saint Lucia Tourism Just Named a New CEO 

The Pitons. The three-wall resorts. The floating water park. The chocolate. The rainforest. Saint Lucia is one of the more unique travel offerings in the Caribbean — and now the island has a new leader for its tourism efforts.  The island’s Saint Lucia Tourism Authority has brought back former CEO Louis Lewis as its new […]

Jamaica Just Topped 2 Million Visitors for 2024, in "Remarkable Achievement"

In another strong milestone for the island’s tourism efforts, Jamaica just topped 2 million stayover visitors so far in 2024, Caribbean Journal has learned.  Just over 2 million stayover visitors have already come to Jamaica through mid-September, according to the island’s tourism minister, Edmund Bartlett.  Overall, Jamaica has welcomed 3 million visitors, when you include […]

In Grand Cayman, A Look at Caribbean Tourism Through Younger Eyes  

They came from all over the Caribbean, high-level tourism thinkers gathered in Grand Cayman to discuss what’s next for the Caribbean’s most important industry.  But no, I’m not talking about the Tourism Ministers, directors and executives at the CTO’s State of the Industry conference, which was held on the island last week.  These were 12 […]

The Caribbean Tourism Organization Just Named a New Research Director 

Maybe you’ve seen the reports. The wide-ranging looks at tourism arrival data for destinations around the Caribbean. Outlooks for the crucial travel season ahead.  Destinations across the region rely on the Caribbean Tourism Organization for its broad-based tourism research, covering the macro and micro trends shaping the Caribbean’s most important economic driver.  And now the […]

Barbados Tourism Minister Named Chairman of Caribbean Tourism Organization 

GRAND CAYMAN — Barbados Tourism Minister Ian Gooding-Edghill has been named chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organization.  Gooding-Edghill was named during the CTO’s State of the Tourism Industry Conference.  He will take over the role as chairman of the CTO’s Council of Ministers and Commissioners from outgoing chairman Kenneth Bryan, Tourism Minister of the Cayman […]