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Trend trackers in the region reported enormous growth expectations in September 2023, with Dom Rep leading the way (+54% in international arrivals and +39% in groups expected in Q4 2023, compared to the same period in 2019) and US and Canadian demand dominating air bookings. By contrast, traffic to Cancun was showing signs of a slowdown in the same period. As a further sign of its huge popularity, last year Dom Rep became the first nation in the Caribbean to top 10m visitors in a single year and...

With increased activities at the island’s airports, including carriers from some 200 gateways in the United States, Jamaica has garnered over US$200.28 million, or J$30 billion, in revenue. In his 2024-25 Sectoral Debate in Parliament last week,...

The scenes at the popular Janga’s Soundbar...

The 7,000-acre resort is planning celebrations to mark its 50th anniversary

Since the introduction of Decree 668-22 which provides, among other things, for the expulsion from Dominican territory of all foreigners in an irregular migratory situation...

By Rashead Esson Staff Writer     #DominicanRepublic, August 1, 2023 – Surpassing 1.8 million tourist arrivals in just the first TWO months of 2023, Dominican Republic is setting the standard and taking the lead in the tourism industry. The flow of tourists into Dom Rep doesn’t seem to be slowing anytime soon, if ever.  […]

Beauty by Doctors Medical Spa, the recently established beauty and wellness medical facility at Fairview Town Center in Montego Bay, St James, is aiming to make inroads into the growing medica...

Jamaica-born, Canadian billionaire businessman Michael Lee-Chin has dismissed in the strongest terms any suggestion that he is beginning a slow off-loading process of his majority share ownership in the National Commercial Bank (NCB) with a view to...

A major player in the local tourism industry has come out swinging at some foreign hotels whose rates, he said, are so high that it is cheaper for Jamaicans to fly to the Dominican Republic (Dom ...

A number of companies across various industries are part of a delegation now in the Dominican Republic (DR) seeking to expand operations as they build-out sustainable export opportunities in and outsi...