Congratulations to Mrs. Julianna Ward-Destang for winning Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Managing Director of the Caribbean’s first ever open-water sports park, Splash Island Water Park, Mrs. Julianna Ward-Destang, successfully won the award for “Entrepreneur of the Year” at the 7th annual “Saint Lucia Business Awards”. Sister company to Splash Island Water Park, Bay Gardens Resorts, also won the “Marketing Excellence Award” for the third time, totaling […]
CHTA Hotels Accumulate Hospitality Industry Accolades!
U.S. News & World Report has named the best hotels in 2016 including the Best Hotels in the Caribbean: The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman Jamaica Inn Dorado Beach, A Ritz-Carlton Reserve Tortuga Bay Jade Mountain Click here for the full story (Source: Travel Pulse). Two more CHTA member hotels were announced the winners of the TripAdvisor® […]
New Member Spotlight: CDO INNOV
CDO INNOV a French company building motorized devices to manage sensitive areas (hydrocarbons depollution, invasive plants and sargassum collecting solutions). Our original approach to the Sargassum invasion is based on two main directions: Answering emergency through beach-cleaning solutions: we provide impacted entities (hotels, communities) with affordable, efficient and versatile machines to maintain the beaches clean […]
New CHTA Strategic Partner: JetBlue Airways
JetBlue Airways joined CHTA as a Strategic Partner for 2016. Jetblue and CHTA have aligned regarding certain advocacy issues, in particular regarding mitigating the cost of travel and increasing the demand for Caribbean destinations. More travel to the Caribbean will increase funds available for the promotion of the destinations throughout the region, increase taxes collected […]
MasterCard and CHTA Present Destination Market: Caribbean Study
MasterCard Advisors and CHTA presented Destination Market: Caribbean, a study which delves into Caribbean tourism trends over the past three years. The study revealed that the top origination markets for spend are the U.S., U.K., Canada, Netherlands, Venezuela, Germany, France, Brazil, Switzerland and Italy. While international travel to the Caribbean remains steady throughout the year, […]
Sargassum Seaweed in 2016?
2015 broke the records in term of seaweed influxes. All islands got impacted, and in several of them, the tourism sector seriously suffered from it. What will be the situation in 2016? To answer this question, it is crucial to understand well the origin of the phenomenon. Briefly: the seaweed comes from a Second Sargasso […]
Galley Bay Resort and Spa World Wetland Day 2016
Galley Bay Resort and Spa celebrated World Wetland Day with a week’s worth of events to raise awareness of mangroves and wetlands in Antigua. The Eastern Caribbean Marine Management Areas Network was invited to Galley Bay Resort to do a display on the marine protected areas in Antigua and the conservation projects associated with it […]
CHTA Creates a Zika Resource Center
CHTA and the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) are urging all Caribbean countries and the national hotel and tourism associations and hotels in the region to diligently work to control the mosquito population in light of the recent reports of the Zika virus. As a result CHTA and the Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST) a […]
Caribbean Economic and Hotel Industry Reports
According to Hotel News Now, the Caribbean hotel industry reported record breaking results in two of the three key performance metrics in 2015, according to data from STR. For the year, average daily rate in the market was US$229.44, and revenue per available room was US$157.74. Each of those absolute values was the highest STR […]
This One Thing Bothers Hotel Guests More Than Anything Else
Most hotel guests would agree, there’s no excuse for poor service. According to consumer advocate Christopher Elliott, inattentive hotel employees are the top concern for a majority of guests. Elliott talked to a handful of hotel guests about what bugs them more than anything else, and it was bad service that kept coming up. Click […]