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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The World Bank and IFC, in partnership with the Australian Agency for International Development and the Canadian International Development Agency, hosted an international event in Puerto Rico this week to exchange ideas and find solutions to strengthen trade logistics, port operations, and regional integration in the Caribbean.
Seaborne Airlines, the regional carrier based in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board, in collaboration with the BVI Airport Authority announced Monday the start of daily round-trip flights between the Luis Munoz Marin International Airport to the BVI’s Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport starting Dec. 8.
With a 20-year career at Ford, Mark Buzzell has been appointed managing director of Ford International Business Development Inc. for the Caribbean and Central America region, to which he will import his expertise in sales, marketing and service operations for the Ford and Lincoln brands.
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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