The U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration announced this week that the U.S. welcomed a record 75 million international visitors in 2014, marking a seven percent increase over 2013.

The Saint Lucia Tourist Board has seen a strong start to 2015, with UK operators and agents reporting good bookings to the end of February. This comes against a backdrop of the highest total number of arrivals in the island’s history recorded for the month of January.

Among the top beneficiaries of the winter migration are airlines Volaris and Grupo Aeromexico SAB, the first and fifth best stock performers respectively among more than 100 large companies trading in Mexico as of March 6.

Several Caribbean destinations recorded strong visitor arrivals growth in 2014. But no Caribbean country experienced a year quite like the Turks & Caicos, where tourist arrivals surged by 31.6 percent in 2014 versus 2013, according to year-end data released last week by the Turks and Caicos Tourist Board (TCTB).

Cuba’s travel industry finished strong in 2014 as the island nation cracked the 3-million-sunbather plateau for the first time. Now in 2015, the country is off to great start after reaching 371,160 visitors in the month of January, up 16 percent from the previous year.

The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) announced that 2014 is the best year ever for tourism industry. Richard Sealy, Chairman of CTO who is also Barbados’ Tourism Minister said, “Last year, we received more visitors than ever before and visitors spent more money in the Caribbean than they ever did before”.