Another Caribbean island has completely removed its testing requirements: the Eastern Caribbean paradise of Grenada. 

Grenada’s government has lifted all restrictions for entry into the island, regardless of vaccination status, meaning neither vaccinated nor unvaccinated travelers have any restrictions. 

That means travelers don’t have to take any tests before arrival, don’t have to fill out a health declaration form and don’t have to quarantine. 

Grenada is the latest destination to make the move, joining a small but growing list of islands without any testing rules, a trend that began when Curacao did so last month. 

In other words, planning your trip to Grenada is just as it was before the onset of the pandemic — with one primary distinction: the still-required CDC return test for all travelers coming back to the United States. (Only Caribbean destinations that are part of the United States, most notably the uber-popular US Virgin Islands, are exempt from this requirement).

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Tourism to Bonaire continues to sizzle, according to new data from Tourism Corporation Bonaire. 

The island welcomed 111,000 air arrivals in 2021, which represented a 70 percent recovery of the destination’s pre-pandemic numbers. 

But that was buoyed by even stronger numbers over the last two quarters. 

Indeed, since July 21 there has not been a “slow season,” according to Veroesjka de Windt, CEO of BONHATA. 

In the first quarter of 2022, the island saw average hotel occupancy of 72 percent. 

That’s been accompanied by what Onno de Jong, COO of Bonaire International Airport, has called “significant growth in the number of passengers” in the second half of last year. 

Now the aim is to reach 100 percent tourism recovery by the end of 2022, according to Miles Mercera, CEO of TCB. 

The positive news comes ahead of the island’s first major event in years, the highly anticipated Bonaire Rum Week in June. 

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