The leading all-inclusive resort in Turks and Caicos has completed its comeback, Caribbean Journal has learned. 

The all-inclusive Beaches Turks and Caicos, one of Sandals Resorts International’s family-friendly resorts, relaunched this week on Grace Bay Beach in Providenciales. 

The resort has reopened under Sandals’ new “Platinum Protocols of Cleanliness” health and safety program. 

“Our team and I are looking forward to having all of our incredible customers back home with us,” said Adam Stewart, Deputy Chairman of Sandals Resorts International. 

Lone one of the Caribbean’s top family resorts, it’s home to 10 pools, 21 eateries, a 45,000 square foot waterpark and five different accommodation “villages.”

It’s the second Beaches-branded resort to reopen, joining Beaches Negril, which reopened in Jamaica over the summer. (As for Sandals, all but five of the company’s myriad resorts in the Caribbean are open again).

The other Beaches resort in the Caribbean, Beaches Ocho Rios in Jamaica, is slated to open on Feb. 1, 2021, according to an update from the company. 

Turks and Caicos has been open for tourism since July; the destination is not requiring any quarantine for incoming travelers.

Visitors need a negative PCR test taken within five days before arrival and must purchase travel insurance from an approved provider; they then need to complete the destination’s TCI Travel Authorization (you can find the form here). 

For more, visit Beaches Turks and Caicos.

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It’s the most iconic sound of Puerto Rico: twilight song of the coqui frog.

And now the island’s tourism agency has launched a new program that offers the chance to “adopt” the coqui — and support Puerto Rico’s wildlife in the process.

The newest initiative from Discover Puerto Rico is called “Adopt a Coqui,” and proceeds benefit local environmental nonprofit Conservacion ConCiencia.

“In good time, you’ll plan a future visit to our forest to enjoy their serenade in person,” Discover Puerto Rico said in a statement. “But, in the meantime, you can virtually adopt a coquí and support on-Island sustainability and conservation programs.”

For $25, donors get a digital, keepsake adoption certificate with their name on it.

For more, visit Adopt a Coqui.

— CJ

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No destination in the wider Caribbean is seeing more interest from airlines right now than Cancun. 

Since the Mexican Caribbean’s tourism reopening in the early summer, Cancun International Airport continues to draw new routes from a host of carriers — and now JetBlue is launching an expansion of its own. 

In March, JetBlue will be launching four new routes to Cancun, with new service from Austin, Nashville, Los Vegas and Sacramento. 

All of the routes will be operating three times each week, according to JetBlue. 

“This year has pushed us to find new ways of operating our business and we’ve adapted at a pace we’ve never seen before, pivoting our network in response to changing customer demand,” said Scott Laurence, head of revenue and planning, JetBlue. “We’re continuing to play offense to bring in cash revenue and support our business recovery. These network additions help fine-tune our geography in ways that make sense in today’s market.”

The JetBlue announcement comes as more carriers look to capitalize on Cancun’s strong travel demand amid the pandemic, from Frontier’s just-announced route from Miami to Cancun to United’s broad expansion to Cancun from cities like Newark, Los Angeles and San Francisco. 

It’s not a surprise given Cancun’s broad tourism reopening, one that kicked off in June and remains arguably the most complete travel relaunch in the wider region. 

Indeed, last month Cancun International Airport reported passenger traffic of 1.663 million last month. 

While that was just 39 percent of the same period in 2019, it was more passengers than any other airport in the wider Caribbean. 

— CJ

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