Topic: post-pandemic tourism

The hospitality industry is facing a possible recruitment crisis as it prepares for the return of more tourists in the new year. Efforts to train and hire local talent are intensifying, but further action is needed, say hoteliers.

Just over 1,300 tourism stipend recipients are registered as actively seeking employment.

By walking, wading and paddle boarding, from West Bay to George Town, the Cayman Compass sought to document the shifting sands of Seven Mile Beach and found the traversable portion is now closer to four miles.

Government plans to allocate $21 million over the next two years for a project to restore a large stretch of lost sand at the southern end of Seven Mile Beach.

The beach in front of the Marriott resort has been conspicuous by its absence for the last three years.

Hotel and condo operators have few bookings for "reopening day" in Cayman, but are happy to be back in business after 20 months without tourism.

As Cayman’s leaders seek to negotiate the complex logistics of cruising in the era of COVID-19, questions linger about the value of the sector to Cayman and whether a rethink of the relationship with the mega corporations that dominate the industry is possible.

Cruise lines have returned to the majority of ports across the Caribbean and Latin America and are ready to come back to Cayman, according to Michele Paige, president of the industry trade organisation.

Caribbean tourism leaders are cautiously optimistic about the revival of the industry with preliminary data suggesting the region outperformed the rest of the world in the first half of 2021.

The Turks and Caicos Islands is enjoying record tourism numbers even amid the pandemic. Has the success of a fellow British Overseas Territory come at Cayman’s expense or has it ‘cracked the code’ that our leaders can follow to revive a crumbling pillar of the economy?