This report has been prepared by the Caribbean Tourism Research and Development Centre (CTRC) in order to focus attention on the contribution made by tourism to economic growth and development in the Caribbean, and also to encourage governments and donor agencies to allocate greater resources to research, product development, marketing and training for this most…
KEY POINTSCuba received about 4 million tourists last yearTourism accounts for more than 15% of the Caribbean’s annual GDPTourism represented 34% of Jamaica’s 2018 GDP Travel bans and cancelled airplane flights are damaging the all-important tourism industry across much of the Caribbean.While Jamaica, the Bahamas and Guyana have postponed their annual carnival celebrations, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe and…
News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Nov. 6, 2020: Here are the top stories making Caribbean travel news for Nov. 6, 2020: Canada is warning Canadians to avoid non-essential travel to The Bahamas. The Cayman Islands, St Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are the only Caribbean nations listed as countries with a low risk…
Sea Dream Yacht Club’s SeaDream 1 has COVID-19 passengers. (CREDIT: GENE SLOAN FOR THE POINTS GUY) News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. Nov. 13, 2020: Here are the top stories making Caribbean travel news for Nov. 13, 2020: The first Caribbean cruise to resume sailing since the start of the pandemic has had been cut short…
I haven’t hoisted a carry-on bag into an overhead rack or slung a backpack over my shoulder since last February.However, I did “check in” to two resorts recently (virtually, of course) to find out how they’ve fared during their closures, what they’ve done in their down time, how morale and staff are doing and what…
In our life BK (Before Kids) Puerto Rico was the go-to vacation spot for me and my husband, Ken. We loved the Latin culture, Spanish language, and combination of city life and beautiful beaches. Every time we stepped off the short (three hours from New York!) direct flight, we marveled at how the friendly lifestyle…
Frontier Airlines will add St. Thomas, Cozumel and Oakland, Calif., to its route network in February.The carrier will fly from Oakland to Denver, Las Vegas and Phoenix with a total of eight weekly services beginning in early February. Frontier’s service from the East Bay will increase to 15-times weekly in March. The discount airline will start…
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Four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have from Tuesday put arrangements in place for operating a travel bubble as part of the efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), Barbados Ambassador to CARICOM, David Comissiong has said. In a statement, Comissiong said that St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, and Barbados…
Caribbean destinations are slowly re-opening their borders to international travelers, albeit with significant anti-coronavirus protocols in place, as the islands balance the need to resume tourism activity with all-important public health. In each destination, government, health and tourism authorities have carefully examined COVID-19’s potential impact on their own communities, the extent of the pandemic in…
