If it feels like everyone you know is going to Turks and Caicos right now, it’s not your imagination. The destination just posted the highest first-quarter visitor arrivals ever recorded, welcoming 203,587 stayover visitors between January and March, a 5 percent increase over the same period last year. That comes on the heels of a […]
Above: the future site of the Hyatt Place in Manatí (Photo: OG) By the Caribbean Journal staff Manatí, Puerto Rico will be home to a new Hyatt Place hotel in 2014, following the launch of construction Tuesday. The project is the product of an agreement between Hyatt Hotels and Island Hospitality Partners, which is a […]
Above: Bimini (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff In 1964, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr went to the Bahamas to work on his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech. King traveled to Bimini, the westernmost island in the Bahamian archipelago and a frequent haunt of Ernest Hemingway. It was the first of two visits to Bimini […]
Above: the Four Seasons Resort in Nevis (All photos by CJ) By Alexander Britell NEVIS — IT’S LATE EVENING, and Pinney has arrived in Nevis by sea. After a warm greeting to the island, she is shepherded by VIP transport to the Four Seasons Resort and immediately escorted to one of its new beach houses. […]
