P.R.-Cuba flights grounded after 3 months may resume this summer
May 15, 2012
Last year, California-based Cuba Travel Services launched, with great fanfare, the first direct charter flights between Puerto Rico and Cuba since the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power.
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Caribbean hotel officials: Cruise ships need to pay their fair share of taxes
May 15, 2012
Hoteliers are generally optimistic that 2012 will bring a modest recovery to Caribbean tourism arrivals, but at a recent conference in San Juan, there was plenty of grumbling that for too long, hotels have been shouldering an unfair tax burden when compared to the cruise industry.
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Caribbean tourism officials step up lobbying campaign against U.K. airline tax
May 9, 2012
A tax originally imposed by the British government to fight global warming is being viewed in the English-speaking Caribbean as a penalty against long-haul air travelers — and regional tourism officials are furious about it.
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