Summer group business pumping $14.8M into economy
June 6, 2014
Puerto Rico’s group business activity is kicking off strongly this summer, with 70 events — including conferences, annual meetings and sports activities — already lined up for the season.
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Orbitz launches ‘Orbitz Originals: Secrets of Puerto Rico’
June 5, 2014
Online travel company Orbitz Worldwide has partnered with the Puerto Rico Tourism Co. to launch "Orbitz Originals: Secrets of Puerto Rico," a 10-part online video series that is hosted by travel expert Richard Bangs and is available for viewing at Orbitz.com/PuertoRico.
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Puerto Rico Restaurant Week, JetBlue host tasting
May 16, 2014
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.
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Ritz-Carlton San Juan’s new GM seeks industry unity
May 15, 2014
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.
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Puerto Rico has big potential as food mecca
May 2, 2014
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.
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Meet Puerto Rico launches campaign in Brazil
April 29, 2014
Meet Puerto Rico successfully launched, in Brazil, the new “Escape the Meeting Blah!” promotion at "World Travel Market Latin America," the main Latin American travel industry show, held annually in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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1st Gastronomic Tourism Congress planned for May 6-7
March 27, 2014
With the goal of raising awareness and educating about the importance of gastronomic tourism for the island’s economic development, Cultura Culinaria will sponsor the first Gastronomic Tourism Congress for Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, May 6-7 at the José A. (Tony) Santana International School of Hospitality and Culinary Arts at the Universidad del Este in Carolina.
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Saborea Puerto Rico culinary fest returns April 4-6
March 20, 2014
The Puerto Rico Hotel and Tourism Association offered details Wednesday of this year’s edition of Saborea Puerto Rico: A Culinary Extravaganza, which trade group President Clarisa Jimenez called “the most important culinary event in the Caribbean.”
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Investors buy Punta Candelero Beach Resort
March 11, 2014
Puerto Rican investment firm Encanto Group announce Monday the acquisition of Punta Candelero Beach Resort and Marina at Palmas del Mar in Humacao.
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Puerto Rico Open to pump $22M into island economy
March 6, 2014
The seventh edition of the Puerto Rico Open is officially underway at the Trump International Golf Club in Río Grande, an event that is expected to have an economic impact of $22 million and reach more than 500 million homes, Puerto Rico Tourism Co. Executive Director Ingrid I. Rivera-Rocafort said during a news conference Wednesday.
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U.S. Virgin Islands tourism officials optimistic for ’14
February 26, 2014
Officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands expect 2017, which will mark 100 years since the United States bought the territory from Denmark, to be a banner year for tourism.
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St. Maarten upgrades Princess Juliana Int’l Airport
February 25, 2014
When it comes to duty free shopping, no Caribbean destination holds more appeal than St. Maarten, a Dutch-speaking outpost of the Netherlands that shares the 37-square-mile island with French-speaking St. Martin.
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St. Kitts to get 2nd cruise-ship pier, 1st ‘skyscrapers’
February 21, 2014
St. Kitts-Nevis, the smallest sovereign state in the Americas in both area and population, has only 53,000 inhabitants and measures just 104 square miles — less than twice the size of the District of Columbia. Yet it’s at the forefront of a cruise ship and hotel building boom that shows no sign of slowing down.
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Puerto Rico looks to tourism to boost sagging economy
February 20, 2014
Puerto Rico, deep in the throes of an economic and fiscal crisis, is losing ground to rival Caribbean tourism destinations while the island’s population continues to shrink — from just over 3.8 million in 2010 to under 3.7 million today.
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Jamaica aims to repeat milestone of 2M air visitors in ’14
February 18, 2014
On Dec. 30, with only two days left in 2013, Jamaica welcomed its two millionth air passenger to the island — the first time it has ever accomplished that in one year.
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