El Salvador to host regional cruise ship tourism summit
April 22, 2015
Next month, the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association will hold its 2015 regional meeting in El Salvador — the only Central American nation without a Caribbean coast.
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Puerto Rico hosting Caribbean Travel Marketplace 2015
January 30, 2015
Puerto Rico is hosting the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s 2015 Caribbean Travel Marketplace event — considered one of the most important symposiums of the tourism industry in the Caribbean — at the Puerto Rico Convention Center through Jan. 30
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Expedia: Puerto Rico benefits in Caribbean travel spike
December 11, 2014
Travel to the Caribbean has long been focused on the U.S. traveler, but new data from the Expedia group, one of the world's largest online travel companies, revealed recently that intra-Caribbean travel is on the rise, with a 50 percent bump in demand in the first three quarters of 2014, when compared to the same time period in 2013.
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Seaborne, United announce interline agreement
October 1, 2014
Seaborne Airlines announced Tuesday the introduction of a new interline agreement with United Airlines providing customers connections between the networks of both air carriers.
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Fusionworks wins Microsoft award for LatAm, Caribbean
July 8, 2014
Microsoft Corp. has recognized local firm Fusionworks for its performance in the Latin America and Caribbean region, where won in the software provider’s Customer Relationship Management category, beating out 46 countries and territories in 34 categories evaluated, the company announced.
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ICSC convention to focus on regional retail opportunities
December 17, 2013
The International Council of Shopping Centers is gearing up to host its 4th annual regional convention in Puerto Rico in February 2014, with an agenda of presentations that seek, among other objectives, to lay out opportunities for local retailers to export their goods and services, event organizers told this media outlet in an interview Monday.
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Expedia Traveler Preference program boosts room nights
September 17, 2013
Hotels in the Caribbean that have enabled the Expedia Traveler Preference program have experienced an increase in their standalone (room only) year-over-year net room night production of 29 percentage points on average, according to analysis by the Expedia group released Monday.
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Expedia Insiders’ Select ’13 lists world’s top rated hotels
July 22, 2013
Online travel agency Expedia.com recently revealed its Expedia “Insiders’ Select” 2013 list, an annual ranking of the very best hotels on Expedia sites from around the world, predominantly determined by Expedia customers.
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AA, Seaborne Airlines announce codeshare deal
June 25, 2013
American Airlines announced Monday the launch of a new codeshare agreement with St. Croix-based Seaborne Airlines, providing customers access to six destinations in the Caribbean out of Puerto Rico.
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American Eagle ends Puerto Rico service after 27 years
April 1, 2013
Regional air carrier American Eagle ended its 27-year run out of the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan over the weekend, flying away from the Caribbean and Puerto Rico for the last time.
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CTO projects 4-5% growth in ’13 tourism to Caribbean
April 1, 2013
Visitor traffic to the Caribbean region should increase by 4 percent to 5 percent this year, reports the Barbados-based Caribbean Tourism Organization. That follows strong growth in 2012 that saw the islands of the Caribbean welcome 25 million visitors — 5.4 percent more than in 2011 and the largest number of stay-over visitors in five years.
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FAA certifies Seaborne’s Saab340B, carrier to add flights
March 27, 2013
Seaborne Airlines has cleared a new milestone with the recent certification by the Federal Aviation Administration of the Saab 340B aircraft. As a result, starting April 1, the regional carrier will begin offering nonstop flights between the St. Croix Henry E. Rohlson, St. Thomas Cyril E. King, and Tortola Terrence B. Lettsome airports and the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport.
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Seaborne to fly 3 new routes from LMM
February 20, 2013
Seaborne Airlines announced Tuesday new non-stop service from Luis Muñoz Marín Airport to three new airports in the Caribbean — Melville Hall Airport in Dominica, the Aime Cesaire Airport de Fort-de-France in Martinique, and the Pointe-a-Pitre International Airport in Guadeloupe — starting April 1.
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Visa reports 21% 4Q12 volume growth in LatAm, Caribbean
January 4, 2013
Visa Inc. announced it reached $93 billion in total payments volume for the period ended on September 30, 2012, compared to $89 billion reported last fiscal year during the same period in the Caribbean and Latin American region, resulting from the sustained growth of debit and credit products in the region, particularly in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.
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Caribbean cooperation summit slated for Puerto Rico
November 28, 2012
In its effort to assure a greater regional cooperation, the 7th selection committee meeting of the INTERREG IV Caribbean program 2007/2013, will be held for the first time in Puerto Rico, Nov. 28-29 at the InterContinental San Juan Resort & Casino, organizers announced Tuesday.
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