Topic: Caribbean tourism

Uncertainty tied to recent developments involving Venezuela continues to weigh on travel demand across the Caribbean, despite the region’s vast geographic spread and the absence of safety concerns at most destinations.

Cayman is set to outperform many of its Caribbean peers over the next five years, with Fitch forecasting steady tourism growth through 2029.

Four young speakers participated in the first in-person tourism ambassador competition to take place in four years. Cayman Brac had strong representation in the finals, with three of the competitors coming from Layman E. Scott Sr. High School.

Efforts to boost stayover tourism are paying off with the latest statistics from the Department of Tourism pointing to stayover numbers that are approaching the pre-pandemic high recorded in early 2019.

Throughout the Caribbean, which is fighting to recover from the debilitating blow of the COVID-19 pandemic, new hotels are opening up and airports and cruise ports are getting multi-million-dollar makeovers as the region attempts to build back better.

Deputy Premier Christopher Saunders, together with Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan, have initiated discussions with Jamaican leaders to work together on greater collaboration with Cayman on tourism travel between the two destinations.

As Cayman is waiting a few more weeks for the release of its border reopening plan, other travel-dependent islands are moving at different speeds to restart their tourism industries.

Canada's major airlines have agreed to suspend all flights to Mexico and the Caribbean until April 30 from Sunday as part of the fight against a second wave of the coronavirus.

Despite recording record visitor arrivals in 2015, the Cayman Islands was outstripped in tourist arrivals by the rest of the Caribbean, which enjoyed record growth.

Frank Bentayou “Concern in Caribbean is unfounded.” That’s the pithy first line of an email Stewart Chiron sent during a mid-trip pause in Dallas last week...