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Barbados posted very strong tourism growth in 2016, according to the latest numbers from Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. The island reported 631,513 stayover visitors in 2016, a 6.7 percent increase compared to 2015 and a new record for air arrivals in a single year. That was one of the highest tourism growth rates of…
“This is the way Caribbean hotels used to be,” I think to myself. And when you’ve been to as many Caribbean hotels as I have, it’s not something you often think. There are just 12 units here, seven stone-walled cottages and five villas, all of them just a step off the beach, all of them…
Mexico’s Caribbean coast has a very cool new eco-resort. It’s called the KanXuk Blue Maya Resort, and it’s set inside of the UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Riviera Maya. The boutique hotel is set in the Sian Ka’an Biosphere just south of Tulum, and has four main oceanfront villa rooms, one jungle view…
A major new resort project has broken ground in Antigua and Barbuda: Callaloo Cay. The luxury development is the brainchild of Al Caribi Antigua Development Limited — a joint venture between Sheik Tariq Bin Faisal Al Qassimi of Dubai and the government of Antigua and Barbuda. Tariq is behind a number of high-profile properties in…
Guadeloupe-based airline Air Caraibes is adding a major new Airbus A350 XWB aircraft to its fleet. The airline is based in Guadeloupe and operates both around the Caribbean and between the Caribbean and France. It is the first French airline to take delivery of the A350. The new plane is the latest aircraft from Airbus,…