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By the Caribbean Journal staff
Hotels in Curaçao are having a strong year, according to the latest numbers from STR and the Curacao Hotel and Tourism Association.
The Dutch Caribbean island’s hotel occupancy was 75.6 percent in June, up 12.8 percentage points from its 62.8 percent number in June of 2017.
Average daily rates rose from $122.90 to $144.58, while revenue per available room rose by 41.5 percent, from $77.21 to $109.27.
“As can be seen, there was a significant increase in hotel performance compared to 2017,” the association said in a statement.
That’s been the trend for much of 2018, as the island has significantly outperformed the wider Caribbean region in the period.
Indeed, regional occupancy rose by just 0.1 percent in June, while average daily rates in the Caribbean rose by 3.2 percent.
— CJ
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Canadian travel giant Sunwing has added another new nonstop route to the Caribbean.
The company has announced the planned launch of new nonstop flights between Thunder Bay, Ontario and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.
The weekly Wednesday flights will launch on Dec. 19 and operate through March 27, 2019, according to the company.
The recently-renovated Riu Palace Punta Cana.
Sunwing will be resuming service from Thunder Bay to Varadero, Cuba and Cancun, Mexico for the winter season as well.
“We are delighted to be returning to Thunder Bay this coming season and to be offering our customers even more choice from their doorstep; without the need to make the long winter drive to Toronto or change planes to reach the sunny south,” said President of Tour Operations, Andrew Dawson. “Our seasonal flight services from Thunder Bay have always been well received and we are very pleased to be able to expand our operations even further this year. Punta Cana is consistently one of our most popular vacation hotspots and we are sure that it will become a perennial favorite with our customers in Thunder Bay for many years to come.”
The launch is part of a wider expansion to Punta Cana by Sunwing, including new flights to the Dominican Republic’s most popular destination rom both Sept-Iles and Val-d’Or, Quebec.
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By Alexander Britell
MONTEGO BAY — In years of golf lessons, no one had ever asked me that.
It was a humid morning in Montego Bay at the Tryall Club in Montego Bay, Jamaica’s destination golf resort and among the best in the Caribbean, and I was taking a lesson with Ewan Peebles, a Scottish transplant who has been in the country since 2002.
The question was simple.
Ewan, Jamaica’s top golf pro, had asked me to explain to him what he had just taught me and how to execute it, as if he were the student.
It seems so simple, so obvious, but in all my previous instruction I had never been asked. And it made me think about what I had just learned in a totally new way.
Jamaica’s leading golf pro, Ewan Peebles.
The reality is not all golf pros are created equal — too many go through the motions, regurgitating tips that may or many not sustainably work.
Peebles is different — he has a quiet demeanor, quickly analyzing your swing and approach without needing to say too much, and offering easy-to-understand, discrete, replicable solutions — the kind of golf instruction that lasts.
But that’s the kind of instruction you get at Tryall, which has long been a bit of an in-the-know spot for golf lovers, just as Jamaica and the wider Caribbean region have been.
Tryall, whose Ralph Plummer-designed, 18-hole, 6,836-yard course has undergone a major transformation in the last few years, is looking to make that the point to golfers abroad, something that Jamaica itself has begun working on.
And it’s easy to explain.
Playing golf in Jamaica is a wonderful experience — from the windy challenge of seaside courses to the fact that you’re always joined by an expert caddie — a rarity at a public course. (I played as a single, meaning my round turned into a full-fledged playing lesson of its own).
It all adds up to a world-class golf resort, whether you’re looking to improve your game, go on a golfing getaway or just fit in a round on a traditional vacation.
“People don’t realize how good of a golf destination Jamaica is,” Peebles tells me on the putting green.
And that’s all the explanation you need.
— CJ
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