With many new and emerging tourist destinations in the Caribbean, Barbados is facing an increased amount of competition to attract the world’s finest super-yachts.

The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the Adventure Travel Trade Association signed a new partnership agreement March 7, 2014, during Corporate Social Responsibility Day at ITB Berlin.

A plan to transform a small Caribbean island off the southern coast of Haiti into a high-end tourism resort will create more than 2,000 jobs and help change the international image of the impoverished country.

The thousands of spring breakers who flooded over each March from the nearby Texas resorts are gone. The drug war drove them off, leaving a void of tourism in a city that years ago gave up trying to cater to such crowds.