The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says the extreme uncertainty surrounding the tourism recovery in the Caribbean highlights the importance of boosting innovation and supporting transformations that align tourism destinations and products with post-pandemic global demand trends.   The IDB in a new report noted that most global tourism reports predict a two to four-year period…

  The Caribbean’s most glamorous destination is reopening this week, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The French Caribbean island of St Barth will officially reopen its borders for tourism on June 9 to all fully vaccinated travelers from the United States, Europe and most other countries in North and Central America, the island’s tourism board confirmed. …

Citation: Pérez León VE, León Sánchez MA, Guerrero FM (2021) Central American and Caribbean tourism destinations’ competitiveness: A temporal approach. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0252139. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252139Editor: Dragan Pamucar, University of Defence in Belgrade, SERBIAReceived: October 17, 2020; Accepted: May 10, 2021; Published: May 25, 2021Copyright: © 2021 Pérez León et al. This is an open access…

On the glassy blue waters surrounding the U.S. Virgin Islands, catamarans and pleasure yachts have packed the shoreline for the past year — a scene so busy and crowded that it would have been notable even before the pandemic.The business of charter yachts is booming, and is expected to pump at least $88 million into…