The resort report: what’s new in the hotel world ANN RUPPENSTEIN Checking out the latest hotel and resort news from fresh renovations to brand new and upcoming properties ready to welcome your clients.  Windjammer Landing Villa Beach Resort Windjammer Landing Villa Beach Resort has a new look...

Three new properties add to luxury USVI inventory ANN RUPPENSTEIN Unlike most destinations around the world, the USVI actually did “extremely well” tourism wise during the pandemic. “The USVI is leading the Caribbean on a comparative level from 2019 to 2023,” says Joseph Boschulte,...

Newly launched destination marketing and management organization replaces tourist board ANN RUPPENSTEIN Out with the old and in with the new. Turks and Caicos has replaced its existing tourist board with Experience Turks and Caicos, a newly launched partnership between the public and private sectors....

New hotels and new cruise development strengthens tourism in The Bahamas ANN RUPPENSTEIN The CEO of the Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board says 2022 saw “complete recovery from the pandemic” for its member hotels in Nassau, Cable Beach and Paradise Island. “Our room revenue surpassed...

Scorching temperatures aren’t keeping us home IAN STALKER Some like it hot… or at least aren’t bothered enough by very hot weather in some parts of the world to shun those areas. Travel industry personnel say they haven’t yet noticed any signs that the extreme heat that has gripped...

Destination now has Canadian representation IAN STALKER The popular Baja California Sur destination of Los Cabos isn’t the only Baja destination happy to host us on vacations. Jesus Ordoñez, general director for the Board of Tourism of Baja California Sur, is happy to promote water-fronting...