By the Caribbean Journal staff

The Dutch Caribbean destination of Bonaire has announced the appointment of a new marketing manager.

Tourism Corporation Bonaire has named Derchlien Vrolijk-Dijkhoff has its new marketing manager, in which role she will help lead Bonaire’s tourism push.

“As the new Marketing Manager, Mrs. Vrolijk’s primary goal is to work together and closely with local and international partners, stakeholders and our local community towards a gradual tourism growth through sustainable planning and development,” the TCB said in a statement.

Vrolijk, a native of Aruba, is a veteran of the tourism industry, with positions at organizations including STINAPA and Aruba’s Tiara Air, among others.

She also previously worked at Tourism Corporation Bonaire in 2011.

— CJ

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By the Caribbean Journal staff

The PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open will be returning again in 2020, the world’s leading golf tour announced this week.

Next year’s Puerto Rico Open will be held again at the Coco Beach Golf and Country Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, from Feb. 17-23.

It will be one of just three Caribbean events on the PGA Tour’s 49-event seasonal schedule, along with the Mayakoba Golf Classic in Playa del Carmen and the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

The Coco Beach development is home to the soon-to-relaunch Hyatt-affiliated Resort at Coco Beach, part of a wider master-planned resort project announced earlier this summer.

The Hyatt-affiliated resort will reopen in mid-September; it will eventually be called the Hyatt Regency Coco Beach.

“Welcome back to Puerto Rico @PGATour,” Discover Puerto Rico CEO Brad Dean wrote on Twitter. “:Looking forward to another successful Puerto Rico Open.”

Last year’s event was won by American golfer Martin Trainer, his first-ever win on tour.

— CJ

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By Alexander Britell and Guy Britton

Boldfaced names from across the Caribbean descended upon Miami on Thursday for Bisnow’s third-annual Caribbean Hospitality & Investment Summit.

The high-level conference, which took place at the Intercontinental hotel in downtown Miami, brought together a who’s who of dealmakers, investors, developers and destination officials for a slate of presentations and panels on pressing issues in the region.

The summit, presented by the Puerto Rico Builders Association, included a spotlight on Puerto Rico’s surging investment environment, a look at hotel and resort projects underway and eyeing financing and a focus on networking and dealmaking.

That included several high-level officials from Puerto Rico, most notably Brad Dean, the CEO of Discover Puerto Rico, the territory’s new destination marketing organization.

The event additionally aimed to highlight what has become a rapidly strengthening economic climate in Puerto Rico, fueled in part by a range of favorable tax incentives aimed at investors and job creators.

— CJ

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