As peace settles in Colombia and visitors seek to broaden their South America travel, this once-infamous country is the continent's slumbering tourism giant. In the past 10 years, tourism here has grown by 300 per cent but still there remains a small window of opportunity to visit before the tourism boom really strikes.

Tourism Corporation Bonaire will begin building its presence on the image-sharing social media platform, Instagram. Found under the username @BonaireTourism, the account aims to engage past and potential visitors by posting daily images of the island.

Seasonal increases in the number of flights between North America and Colombia will allow more visitors than ever to experience that Colombia Is Magical Realism, Proexport Colombia announced.

Barbados’ Mango Bay Hotel re-opened its beach following the completion of a government project to restore beaches and prevent erosion of beaches along the country’s west coast.

St Lucia is seeing an increase in traffic from its largest tourist source market, the government said this week. So far this year, arrivals from the United States are up 12 percent through the first 11 months of 2013, with a total of 116,982.

Trinidad and Tobago is looking to court more visitors from around the Caribbean region, aiming to attract around 2,800 regional visitors in the coming months, according to the government. The country’s TDC embarked on a tourism mission to the Dutch Caribbean.