United Airlines and DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist within Deutsche Post DHL Group, announced Thursday several significant growth and expansion initiatives in Puerto Rico.
The Expedia group, one of the world’s leading travel companies, reported Wednesday that travel demand to certain Caribbean destinations has continued to increase on Expedia group sites.
Through a joint partnership, San Juan-based The PRISA Group and Peachtree Hotel Group have begun development of three, select-service hotels in Florida, the companies announced Tuesday.
Saying the island’s tourism sector is the “first industry to come out of recession,” Puerto Rico Tourism Co. Executive Director Ingrid Rivera said the work done over the past three-and-a-half years would result in record-breaking numbers by year’s end.
To mark this year’s “Tourism Month” celebration in September, the Puerto Rico Hotel and Tourism Association on Tuesday unveiled an agenda of events including a gathering of the island’s gubernatorial candidates for a discussion about their plans for this economic sector.
The massive exodus of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland and the island’s continuing financial mess is certainly bad news, but the increased air traffic has been a bonanza for Aerostar Airport Holdings LLC, the company that’s taken over management of San Juan’s Luis Muñóz Marín International Airport.
With an investment of $200,000 in infrastructure, technology and equipment, Prime Air Corp., a Puerto Rican company dedicated to air cargo delivery, announced Thursday the launch of new services to handle deliveries for the manufacturing and medical devices industries.
City Sightseeing is rolling out its trademark red, double-decker tour buses in San Juan to offer its specialized “hop-on, hop-off” tours, company and tourism officials announced Wednesday.
The Normandie Hotel, opened in 1942 and declared a national historic site in August 1980, has been put up for sale by owners Interra-Sky Normandie for $9 million, this media outlet learned exclusively on Tuesday.
Earlier this month, the El San Juan Hotel & Casino — an icon of the bustling Isla Verde tourism strip — closed temporarily as it undergoes a $60 million top-to-bottom redesign of virtually all public areas and guestrooms to attract a new type of client seeking a luxury lifestyle, as well as group business.
Tourism destinations need to “move forward and do things differently,” including relying on the so-called “sharing economy” as a key driver of doing business, Meet Puerto Rico President Milton Segarra said Wednesday, during the Destination Marketing Organization’s (DMO) annual meeting.
More than 1 million passengers passed through Puerto Rico’s regional airports in Fiscal 2016, representing the highest figure achieved by the island’s Air System Network in the last five years, the Puerto Rico Ports Authority said Thursday.
TOTE Maritime Puerto Rico and INTERSHIP announced Wednesday they have teamed up to form one of the largest, most experienced and most advanced terminal operating companies serving Puerto Rico.
The Federal Aviation Administration has assigned more than $1.1 million in funds to the Puerto Rico Ports Authority for improvements and equipment purchases at three Puerto Rico airports.
Delta Air Lines and Seaborne Airlines announced Monday a codeshare agreement that will provide customers from both airlines with increased travel options to and from the United States and Caribbean.
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