The long-awaited 2023 Caribbean Week in New York, the first in three years, commenced in midtown Manhattan today.  Kicking off with the CTO Executive Committee meeting this afternoon, the week’s itinerary features an exciting array of events. Highlights include the tourism marketing conference on Wednesday and Thursday’s Media Marketplace, where esteemed tourism executives…

It’s the beginning of June and that means Caribbean Week in New York is around the corner (June 5-8). It is also the beginning of National Caribbean-American Heritage Month. And according to U.S. President Joseph Biden, “It is time for America to celebrate the achievements and dreams of the millions of people of…

Memorial Day has passed, and June has arrived. To many travelers, those events signal the official beginning of summer, but for those in the Caribbean, June 1st also holds significance as the start of the Atlantic Hurricane Season, which runs through the end of November. This year, as always, tourism stakeholders are taking …

Sarah Glover, the former two-term president of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), the largest U.S. organization for journalists of color, will be participating in the Caribbean Tourism Organization's (CTO) Tourism Industry Marketing Conference, which is taking place at the Martinique New York on Broadway in midtown Manhattan, during Caribbean Week in…

The Caribbean Hotel & Resort Investment Summit (CHRIS) is one of the region’s key hotel and tourism investment conferences. This year’s edition was staged in Miami over the past two days. The event offered an opportunity for investors, financiers and representatives from hotels, resorts, trade associations and destinations to network and learn more about…

MIAMI (May 18, 2023) – Caribbean women are set to make a strong impact at the Caribbean Hotel & Resort Investment Summit (CHRIS), one of the region’s key hotel and tourism investment conferences next week. A number of the region’s top female tourism and business executives will address the summit, which is scheduled to…

We are delighted to share a sampling of photo highlights from the highly successful Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) Caribbean Travel Marketplace, which concluded last week in beautiful Barbados.  Produced by CHTA and hosted by Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. and the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association, this premier event brought together…

The Caribbean region was blessed with countless lives saved during the deadly COVID pandemic by the dedicated action of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and numerous public and private sector and inter-governmental partners.  Health challenges such as the novel coronavirus are not easy. To overcome them requires teams of experts working together to…

As Caribbean tourism stakeholders make their way back to their respective homes, they are no doubt reflecting on their in-person connections with colleagues – old and new – during the 40th edition of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) Caribbean Travel Marketplace in San Juan, Puerto Rico this week. There is tremendous optimism about the…