You know the moment the car pulls across the wooden platform, past the torches, that you’ve reached a singular Caribbean hotel.

It’s a feeling that pervades The House by Elegant Hotels, Barbados’ now-legendary adults-only oasis on the island’s tony Platinum Coast.

There are just 34 rooms at this boutique beachfront property, each with tropical-chic accommodations filled with all of the little details.

It doesn’t get any better than this setting on the heart of the Platinum Coast.

The House recently completed an extensive renovation project emphasizing a “beach house” vibe, one that transformed its bar and “living room,” while offering better connectivity to the adjacent Daphne’s, one of the island’s greatest restaurants. Just as importantly, the upgrades included the addition of a new spa.

What didn’t change? The House’s beloved champagne breakfast.

It all adds up to what is one of the Caribbean’s truly special places to stay — a romantic, luxurious, eminently relaxing place that feels like your own private club.

See more in the latest CJ Video at the top of the page.

For more information, visit The House.

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By Dana Niland
CJ Contributor

Four Seasons Resort Nevis is offering guests new ways to enjoy home away from home.

The resort has introduced three new packages to showcase the flexibility of its villas, offering opportunities for groups, romantics and day trippers alike.

“We are excited to introduce these great new offers and experiences to our guests,” said Gonzalo Güelman Ros, general manager of Four Seasons Resort Nevis. “Whether traveling for a corporate meeting, short day trip or romantic escape, these packages provide unparalleled access to the authentic warmth and charm of Nevisian hospitality via a meeting or vacation experience that celebrates the Caribbean as it was meant to be – unspoiled, undisturbed, and unforgettable.”

For meetings or corporate retreats, companies will enjoy Pinney’s Retreat Meeting Package.

Just a three-minute walk from the resort, Pinney’s Beach Villa neighborhood provides guests with a combination of privacy within their own space and access to a full range of amenities and activities.

The space features a total of 23 guest rooms (all with private bathrooms) across seven three- and four-bedroom luxury villas on 79,395 square feet of land, making it compatible to both intimate planning sessions and group team-building activities.

This group travel package also includes daily in-villa catering for breakfast, access to resort meeting rooms with catered lunch outside on the terrace, a casual welcome beach dinner with a Kool Rummings Rum Cart cocktail hour, team building activity on the beach, sunset catamaran sail and farewell “block party” group dinner with music and dessert from the One Love, Two Scoops Gelato Cart.

Guests looking to spend a day at Four Seasons Resort Nevis, or those who are just sailing through, will enjoy the Land & Sea Day Pass package, which offers travelers the opportunity to dock their yacht at the resort’s brand new pier and spend the day in a luxury villa.

There is a multitude of options for guests who prefer to spend their day at their own private pool, from those who prefer to get out and explore the resort.

The travel package includes docking rights at the new pier, access to a villa for the day with provisions stocked, catered breakfast with a welcome bottle of champagne, one in-villa spa treatment per person and either one round of tennis or nine holes of golf per person for the Land only package.

For the Land & Sea package, guests can enjoy all land inclusions plus non-motorized water sports and access to one of the resort’s luxury beach cabanas.

For couples looking for a romantic getaway, the resort is also offering a Marriage Milestone Package, which invites couples to enjoy a selection of experiences designed to create a deeper connection.

The package includes three nights’ accommodations in a One Bedroom Hill Estate Cottage, private cooking class and herb garden dinner, a Spa Under the Stars experience, a private hike, bike tour or horseback ride, access to a luxury beach cabana for one day, a sunset catamaran cruise and take home gift bag.

For further information, package pricing or reservations, interested travelers can visit the resort’s website.

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By the Caribbean Journal staff

There’s a new way to get to Tortola.

Turks and Caicos-based InterCaribbean Airways has launched its new service between St Maarten and Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.

The service also includes onward connections to Santo Domingo, San Juan and Antigua.

The St Maarten-Tortola flights are operating through the middle of next month on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays.

“interCaribbean is pleased to be able to quickly update our Sint Maarten start date to ensure the communities in St Maarten and in Santo Domingo have available air service options,” said Trevor Sadler, CEO for interCaribbean.

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By Dana Niland
CJ Contributor

Caribbean tourism industry professional Stacy Cox has been elected president of the Caribbean Society of Hotel Association Executives for the next two years.

Cox took office early last year following an unscheduled leadership change, and has now received a full two-year mandate at the association’s annual general meeting, which preceded this month’s 36th annual Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association Caribbean Travel Marketplace event in San Juan.

“It is an honor to continue to serve the region’s hotel and tourism associations and their members and focus on the many pressing issues facing the Caribbean’s sustainability,” said Cox, who asserted her mandate includes increased engagement on issues as education and training, advocacy, airlift capacity, disaster management and the sharing economy.

CSHAE is an independent organization aimed at advancing professional development and strengthening networking among Caribbean hotel and tourism association executives.

The association’s 2018-20 Executive Board will be chaired by Gilda Gumbs Samuel, Executive Director of the Anguilla Hotel and Tourism Association, while Brian Frontin, CEO of the Trinidad Hotels, Restaurant & Tourism Association, will serve as Vice President.

Miles Mercera, President and CEO of the Curaçao Hospitality & Tourism Association, will serve as Treasurer, while Clarisa Jimenez, President and CEO of the Puerto Rico Hotel & Tourism Association, has been appointed Secretary.

Other elected CSHAE Board Directors include Avril Alexander, Executive Director of the British Virgin Islands Chamber of Commerce & Hotel Association; Tessie Duran Tonaco, Marketing Director of the Belize Hotel Association; and Lisa Hamilton, President of the U.S. Virgin Islands Hotel & Tourism Association.

While in San Juan, hotel association executives attended their annual leadership conference, sponsored by American Resort Development Association – Resort Owners’ Coalition and facilitated by Adriana Serna, ASAE Facilitator and Communications Manager of CHTA.

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By Gerard Best
CJ Contributor

PORT OF SPAIN — A group of global and regional technology organizations are partnering to help Caribbean professionals get more out of the Internet economy.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) spearheaded the launch of the Virtual DNS Entrepreneurship Center of the Caribbean (VDECC). The term DNS refers to the domain name system, a core component of the technology behind the Internet. The DNS automatically translates human-readable website addresses into the numeric machine addresses that computers use.

VDECC aims to open up new money-making opportunities in the DNS industry for Internet businesses and entrepreneurs across the region, including Internet service providers, web hosting companies, top-level domain operators, domain name registrars and resellers, web developers, digital marketers, e-commerce startups and Internet legal experts.

“With the right mindset, a wide range of Internet stakeholders can take advantage of emerging opportunities to offer their services. Entrepreneurs with the right vision taking the right action can create new and sustainable business ventures,” said Albert Daniels, Stakeholder Engagement Senior Manager for the Caribbean at ICANN.

The initiative was launched in Port of Spain on Feb. 19, in partnership with the Latin American and Caribbean Country Code Top-Level Domain Association (LACTLD), CANTO, the Caribbean Telecommunications Union, and the Caribbean Network Operators Group (CaribNOG), the volunteer-based community of computer network administrators from across the Caribbean.

Daniels described VDECC as the fruit of ICANN’s collaboration with organizations such as CANTO, CTU and CaribNOG. Delivering opening remarks at the launch, representatives of those bodies also voiced a desire to build strategic partnerships with ICANN.

“The VDECC initiative represents a new wave of possibility for how the Caribbean region is represented on the global DNS marketplace. We have the chance to engage a new cadre of entrepreneurially minded computer engineers, who are interested in playing a part on the global scale but may not fully understand the pathway to getting there,” said Bevil Wooding, Caribbean Outreach Liaison at the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), and one of the founders of CaribNOG.

Meeting sessions covered a range of topics, such as the domain name aftermarket, and how to become an ICANN-accredited registrar. Plenary question-and-answer sessions peppered the agenda, creating a rich atmosphere of free-flowing dialogue among an audience that included a mix of technical, policy, legal and business interests. A number of online participants from across the Caribbean and Latin America also joined the dialogue through a live video stream. The open discussion identified a number of potentially lucrative business opportunities but also pinpointed specific hurdles that have to be overcome.

“We have a long road ahead, and this is just the first step,” said Daniel Fink, Stakeholder Engagement Senior Manager for Brazil at ICANN.

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