The second edition of Puerto Rico Restaurant Week is underway this week, with 40 participating restaurants offering some of their best dishes to local and visiting foodies.
The Ritz-Carlton San Juan recently brought back a familiar face to helm its operations, Jacqueline Volkart, who is intent on putting the property at the forefront of preferred locations for business and pleasure travel.
Positioning Puerto Rico as a gastronomic tourism destination could yield more visitors, grow agriculture to make the island more sustainable and create jobs, food and hospitality industry professionals said ahead of the first Conference of Gastronomic Tourism of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean to be held next week.