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The French Caribbean island of Martinique is seeing a tourism surge, according to the latest numbers from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. Martinique reported 519,304 stayover tourist arrivals in 2016, a 6.6 percent increase compared to 2015. That was one of the fastest tourism growth rates in the Caribbean region in 2016, according to an…
Puerto Rico has long occupied a unique niche in the world of Caribbean travel; while it’s been off the radar of the jet set for decades (something that is, happily, changing), it has found favor with adventure and culture aficionados drawn to places like the El Yunque rainforest and Old San Juan. But Puerto…
The Caribbean has a new fastest-growing destination, according to the latest numbers from the Caribbean Tourism Organization: the Turks and Caicos Islands. The TCI reported 17.5 percent growth in tourist arrivals in 2016, the highest of any destination in the Caribbean region. That resulted in a total of 453,612 tourist arrivals in the archipelago….
The Caribbean’s most anticipated airport project has finally come to fruition. The new Argyle International Airport on the island of St. Vincent receives its first-ever flights on Tuesday as the largest project in the history of the country. The first flights to St. Vincent and the Grenadines’ new airport, charter service operated by Caribbean Airlines…
Protecting sharks isn’t just good for the environment – it’s good for a country’s bottom line, too. That’s the finding of a new study by The Cape Eleuthera Institute, which reports that shark and ray tourism brought almost $114 million to the Bahamas as recently as 2014. And the vast majority of that revenue…