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This is your opportunity to make CHTA better. CHTA is constantly looking for ways to engage members, whether it is in finding out what you value from membership or how you’d like to receive your CHTA communications. Please take a moment to fill out this survey to let us know your thoughts and help us […]
CHTA Partners With SiteMinder To Provide Market-Leading Channel Management To Member Hotels
CHTA has formed a strategic partnership with the global hotel industry’s leading cloud platform, SiteMinder, to provide member hotels market-leading channel management for more effective online distribution and revenue optimization. The strategic partnership will see CHTA collaborate with SiteMinder to strengthen knowledge and innovation within the region’s hotels, namely via educational sessions at the Caribbean […]
Membership Matters: Did You Know?
CHTA Members are privy to benefits that directly assist in growing your business, whether it’s in managing your resources or showcasing your hotel in a Caribbean-focused sales channel. Take a look below and explore two of our most popular benefits! CARIBBEAN JOBS As CHTA members, companies that employ a workforce in the region are able […]
Show Your Excellence and Innovation in Tourism
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) has an open call for applicants for the 13th edition of the UNWTO Awards. The applications are open for organizations or businesses, fitting into one of the categories listed below, and that are currently undertaking a tourism-related project/initiative with an innovative and sustainable approach. UNWTO Award for Innovation in Public […]
Caribbean Week: CHTA Execs Talk Cuba, Airbnb & More
From growing Cuba demand to concerns about Airbnb’s impact on the Caribbean hotel business, top officials from CHTA met with a small media contingent to discuss the hot topics Caribbean specialists should be following. Travel Agent’s Joe Pike met with CHTA officials with his full story available here (Source: Travel Agent).
Hurricane Preparedness
It only takes one storm to change your business, life and community. Tropical cyclones are among nature’s most powerful and destructive phenomena. The Caribbean is an area prone to tropical cyclones, therefore we all need to be prepared for any eventuality. This is your time to prepare for a potential land-falling tropical storm or hurricane. […]
Winners of Taste of the Caribbean
Once again Miami was the host city to Taste of the Caribbean, a culinary competition and professional development conference for food and beverage professionals. Thirteen Caribbean national culinary teams competed for the title of best in the Caribbean, and these were the results of this year’s competition: CARIBBEAN NATIONAL TEAM Winner: Trinidad & Tobago Gold: […]
Developing a Lifelong Love of Travel
Written by Rainer Jenss, President & Founder, Family Travel Association Think back to your very first memory. Got it? If you’re like most – 62%, in fact – that remembrance will be from a time spent on vacation. I happily fall into that majority. As a child, I had the good fortune of having […]
Facing the Food and Revenue Challenge in the Caribbean
In the hospitality industry, Food and Beverage (F&B) is considered an expense, a marketing strategy and an indispensible part of the vacation experience. It also makes up to 20 percent of all hotel revenue. Consequently, hotel executives have begun to view their full-service restaurants as a way drive new clients and incremental revenue to their […]
Cuban and CHTA officials Assert Smart Partnerships Key to Growing the Caribbean Brand
The President of the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA), Karolin Troubetzkoy, joined by several members of CHTA’s executive committee and prominent regional hoteliers, visited Cuba for meetings with Cuban and international officials during the UNWTO and FITCuba events held in Havana between May 2-6. Troubetzkoy applauded Cuba’s Minister of Tourism Manual Marrera Cruz, on […]