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The typically quiet summer season in St. Lucia is about to heat up. The Eastern Caribbean island has announced a new summer festival circuit called Soleil, including six festivals from May through October. The new series was announced by St. Lucia Tourism Minister Dominic Fedee at the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s Caribbean Travel Marketplace conference…
Southwest Airlines is continuing its rapid expansion push in the Caribbean in 2017. The carrier has announced that it will add a new nonstop route between Chicago Midway International Airport and San Juan’s Luis Munoz Marin International Airport. Southwest is also increasing the frequency of its flights from Baltimore, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Tampa and…
The Sandals Barbados resort is expanding. Sandals Resorts International has broken ground on the multimillion-dollar expansion of its Dover Beach all-inclusive, marking the launch of construction of an additional 222 rooms and suites at the resort. Sandals made the announcement during the Caribbean Travel Marketplace conference in Nassau this week. Called “Sandals Barbados Phase…
The island of St. Lucia is quietly seeing a hotel development boom. On the heels of the announcement of the Pearl of the Caribbean resort project, St. Lucia is reporting a wave of development that will add more than 1,000 new hotel rooms to the country’s hotel stock in the next few years. New hotels…
Two Eastern Caribbean neighbors are getting even closer. Guadeloupe-based air carrier Air Caraibes has added a new ATR 72 to its fleet to operate thrice-weekly flights between Martinique and St. Lucia. The new 74-seat plane is the first ATR in the company’s fleet. “We want to announce that we are going to operate flights from…