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By the Caribbean Journal staff

One of the Caribbean’s fastest-growing food festivals is back again this summer.

The Nevis Mango & Food Festival, now in its fifth year, is set for July 4-7 with a focus on the island’s growing culinary power.

Nevis is home to 44 different varieties of mangos, which play an important role in everything from soups and salsas to cocktails on the island, and it’s at the center of the festival, which includes a series of culinary events, partnership with local eateries and events.

This year’s festival will include special “Mango Fest” menus at local restaurants, while chefs from local hotels and abroad will be competing at a “mango cook-off” on July 7 at Oualie Beach.

Frequent Food Network Chef Judy Joo has been tapped as the lead culinary ambassador for the festival.

“Chef Joo fell in love with Nevis upon her first visit and we are thrilled and honored that she has embraced the island and the festival each year,” said Greg Phillip, the chief executive officer of the Nevis Tourism Authority. “Not only is Judy inventive and innovative in her approach to cooking with mangoes, but her stewardship of the event has been an encouragement to our local Nevisian chefs who take part in the festival and competitions. We look forward to another spectacular year.”

For more, visit the Nevis Mango Festival.

— CJ

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By the Caribbean Journal staff

The new Planet Hollywood brand is set to open a new all-inclusive in the Caribbean, this time in Cancun.

Sunwing Travel Group’s Planet Hollywood Beach Resort Cancun is slated to make its debut in “late 2019” in the fast-growing Costa Mujeres area on the Caribbean coast of Mexico.

Set just north of Cancun’s famous Hotel Zone, the property will feature 16 restaurants, including a Guy Fieri’s Burger Joint, along with nine bars, four swimming pools, a lazy river, a kids club and a mini golf course, among other amenities.

A wider rendering of Cancun’s new Planet Hollywood Beach Resort.

The company, like its namesake restaurant brand, will offer a blend of authentic Hollywood memorabilia and entertainment-themed facilities.

That’s along with a signature PH Spa and Beauty Bar and a wellness program called PHIT that brings guests “the top-trending fitness regimes straight from Hollywood.”

The new resort is part of a growing all-inclusive hub in Costa Mujeres, which has seen the debut of a number of high-profile all-inclusive resorts in the last year, including Palladium’s new all-inclusive megaresort complex and the Riu Palace Costa Mujeres.

A rendering of the lobby at the Planet Hollywood Cancun.

Sunwing is also developing a Planet Hollywood Beach Resort at the former site of the Sonesta Great Bay resort in St Maarten, tentatively pegged to debut next year.

It opened its first Planet Hollywood-branded all-inclusive in Costa Rica last year.

For more, visit Planet Hollywood Cancun.

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By Alexander Britell

It was the first full-fledged hotel to ever open in Martinique, a seaside Antillean inn during a time of rhum and biguine.

And now the historic Diamant Les Bains, the beachfront hotel on the southern tip of Martinique that first debuted in 1945, is back again.

Following a large-scale transformation project, the Diamant Les Bains has opened with 33 rooms and five bungalow suites set on one of the island’s most iconic beaches.

It’s an essential opening for the town of Le Diamant, a decidedly up-and-coming Caribbean beach town that had already been developing all of the hallmarks of a new Caribbean hotspot, but lacked a true hotel.

Inside a room.

The crisp, modern Diamant Les Bains is precisely that, boasting a bar, an authentic French Caribbean eatery, a pool, a beachfront jacuzzi and a plum perch on the volcanic sands of Diamant — and the timeless vista of the Diamond Rock.

And because this is Martinique, the kind of island where you’ll want to go to the market and shop, every room has a kitchenette.

The bungalows are the way to do it.

The beachfront bungalow suites worth the extra (if nominal) splurge, where you can hear nothing but the froth of Caribbean waves and palm-filled breezes.

The famous Diamond Rock.

It all adds up to an important addition to what is an increasingly robust boutique hotel portfolio in Martinique, from the high-design La Suite Villa in Trois Ilets to the chic French Coco in Tartane to the delightful Plein Soleil on the island’s Atlantic coast.

For more, visit Diamant Les Bains.

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