The Cayman Islands’ Owen Roberts International Airport is outdated and prone to overcrowding. The country lacks a modern cruise ship terminal, forcing passengers to ferry in from ships anchored offshore. And yet none of those factors have stalled the destination’s growing tourist arrivals.
Antigua and Barbuda’s tourism industry partners are expressing enthusiasm about the new business prospects for tourism in Antigua and Barbuda following a campaign.
The latest Abercrombie & Kent private jet tour includes three days in Cuba as the first stop on a 23-day, six-country Cuba-South America odyssey that departs Miami on Sept. 6. The company in 2014 relaunched its private jet journeys on 50-seat Boeing 757 aircraft.
Jamaica’s Tourism and Entertainment Minister Wykeham McNeill says Jamaica recorded a five per cent increase in overall visitor arrivals for the 2014/15 winter tourist season over the corresponding period last year.
There are many possible reactions to the House of Representatives passing a bill that would reverse President Obama’s loosening of Cuba travel restrictions last December, but one reaction that is highly unlikely among tour operators is surprise.
Trinidad and Tobago is seeing very strong growth in tourism so far in 2015, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The twin-island republic counted 155,671 stayover arrivals in the first four months of 2015, up 10.8 percent from the same period in 2014, according to the CTO data.




