Airbnb has been making major inroads in the Caribbean — and one destination is seeing bigger growth than the others, according to newly released data from the sharing economy giant.
The leader? The island of St Thomas, which topped the Caribbean rankings for 2018, followed by San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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ANTO DOMINGO IS THE oldest city in the Americans, with more than 500 years of history. It's also one of the region's most affordable places to live or retire well.
Along the narrow cobblestone streets of the Colonial Zone, old men take siestas on street benches, women gossip, shouting to one another from their doorways, and domino players attract boisterous crowds for their matches. On the other side of the city, developers are erecting condo buildings, shopping malls and restaurant plazas. And along the edge of it all stretches more than 1,000 miles of azure Caribbean coastline.
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Is Trelawny the next Montego Bay?
The parish of Trelawny, the next parish east of the tourism hub of St James (home to Montego Bay), is seeing significant hotel development growth.
“Trelawny can no longer be ignored,” Jamaica Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett said this week.
Indeed, Trelawny has some 6,000 new hotel rooms in the pipeline in the corridor between Rio Bueno and Falmouth, Bartlett said.
While it’s sometimes, wrongly, called greater Montego Bay, the fact is that Trelawny is a distinct parish — and is forming its own tourism identity.
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One of the leading hotels in the Dominican Republic is set to complete a major $12 million renovation project.
The Casa de Campo Resort and Villas in La Romana is putting the finishing touches on the project, which includes enhancements to the resort’s Golf Learning Center, the Minitas Beach Club and a new meeting and event space.
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After much debate, town hall meetings and heated arguments for and against that reached a public crescendo this week, the Bahamas government has approved Disney Cruise Line’s nearly half-billion dollar proposal to develop the Lighthouse Point property in South Eleuthera into a cruise port.
“The government of The Bahamas having taken into consideration the views of the majority of the people of Central and South Eleuthera is satisfied that it has made the best decision in the interest of the Bahamian people, a sustainable future for the people of Central and South Eleuthera and the economic development of the country,” said the Cabinet Office in a statement issued following a National Economic Council meeting on the matter.
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