The infrastructure is expected to be operational by 2018. The $300 million project is billed as a “new home to the world’s elite,” but, more crucially, it will be a new home for the Setai luxury hotel brand.

The new Melia Braco Village is eyeing a January opening. The Spanish hotel company’s first hotel in Jamaica is now taking bookings for stays beginning Jan. 23, according to the company’s website.

Following its recent partnership with Barcelona-based Qualis Hospitality Group, HotelREZ Hotels & Resorts adds hotels in both Spain and Latin America to its growing portfolio.

Jamaica's Tourism and Entertainment Minister, Dr Wykeham McNeill, has welcomed news that Palace Resorts plans to increase investment in the island’s hotel sector.

The 129-room Courtyard by Marriott Kingston opened Nov. 30 in New Kingston, the business center of the capital city,  near Emancipation Park, the Devon House heritage site, the Bob Marley Museum and Scotchies Jerk Center.

Marriott International’s Autograph Collection Hotels will add the Habitation Jouissant, a boutique property in Cap Haitien, Haiti, to its global portfolio in the fourth quarter of 2017.