Spanish, Mexican groups submit final bids for LMM contract
July 11, 2012
The two finalists in the running to take over the operations of the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina for the next 40 years, Mexico’s Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste and Spain’s Grupo Aeropuertos Avance, submitted their final proposals to the government Tuesday and now must wait two or three weeks to know their fate. […]
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Tourism chief checks ground transportation services at LMM’s Terminal ‘A’
June 12, 2012
Tourism Company Executive Director Luis Rivera-Marín on Monday went to check the work being done in the area of ground transportation service at Terminal A, what is now known as the JetBlue Terminal at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport.
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Roosy Roads Authority signs catamaran builder as 1st tenant
May 22, 2012
The Roosevelt Roads Redevelopment Authority announced Monday it has signed its first tenant, a company dedicated to building catamarans.
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JetBlue supports P3 for LMM, invests $3M to move into Terminal A
May 17, 2012
New York-based JetBlue is marking its 10th year of service in Puerto Rico by investing $3 million to move into its own terminal facility at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport this summer. And although the carrier is not officially calling its local operation a hub, its 40 daily flights, and counting, have made it Puerto Rico’s dominant carrier.
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Caribbean hotel officials: Cruise ships need to pay their fair share of taxes
May 15, 2012
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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Caribbean tourism ministers welcome, not fear, end to Cuba travel restrictions
May 7, 2012
For years, the conventional wisdom was that an eventual end to the U.S. embargo against Cuba would open the floodgates for millions of curious Americans dying to visit the once-forbidden island — while the rest of the Caribbean would, at least initially, suffer a sharp downturn in U.S. tourist arrivals.
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Caribbean targets 2 new markets: South America, Russia
May 3, 2012
Caribbean islands are aggressively courting new tourism markets as restrictive U.K. airline taxes and hard times in the United States keep thousands of potential British and American visitors at home.
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Diageo offers $55K in scholarships for ‘Learning for Life’ initiative
March 13, 2012
British liquor producer Diageo has kicked off the recruitment of college students interested in participating in its “Learning for Life” program, an eight-week hands-on training on Puerto Rico’s service and tourism industry.
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5th edition of Puerto Rico Open generates $4.7M ‘greens’
March 7, 2012
The 5th edition of the Puerto Rico Open taking place in Río Grande through Sunday will generate some significant “greens” for the island, estimated at more than $4.7 million in direct benefits and more than $22 million in indirect economic activity, Tourism Company Executive Director Mario González-Lafuente said during a news conference Tuesday.
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PRHTA blasts decision to shuffle Tourism exec to Roosevelt Roads authority
March 6, 2012
The Puerto Rico Hotel and Tourism Association called Gov. Luis Fortuño’s decision to move Mario González-Lafuente from his Tourism Company post to the head of the Roosevelt Roads Redevelopment Authority project a “grave mistake” that will affect the sector’s recent progress.
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$50M planetarium, hotel planned for Arecibo Observatory
February 1, 2012
Nearly 50 years after it was founded in Arecibo, the world’s foremost single-dish radio telescope facility is the focus of a massive redevelopment project that calls for the construction of a hotel and planetarium to the tune of $50 million, government and facility officials said Tuesday.
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Haiti’s Tourism chief: ‘We’re ready to receive niche markets’
January 24, 2012
Last year, Haiti received around 600,000 foreigners — half of them “diaspora Haitians” visiting family and friends. The other half was largely business executives and representatives of NGOs. This excludes the 600,000 cruise Haship tourists who called on Labadie, Royal Caribbean’s private island off the north coast of Haiti.
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Bustamante tapped to chair Convention Bureau board
January 24, 2012
Veteran hotelier Raúl Bustamante has been named chairman of the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau’s board of directors, the trade group announced Monday. Gov. Luis Fortuño, who had appointed Bustamante as member of the board in August 2011, designated him to the new post.
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Villedrouin takes on Haiti’s massive tourism challenge
January 23, 2012
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Two years since the worst earthquake to ever strike the Caribbean, Haiti is desperately trying to turn its shattered economy around —and it’s counting on tourism to bring in badly needed dollars.
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Travel site Expedia: Bookings to P.R. up by 9% in 1st 10 months of ’11
January 23, 2012
The number of tourists selecting Puerto Rico as the destination they want to visit has grown steadily this year, according to statistics from Expedia, Inc., the world’s largest online travel company, which operates more than 100 Expedia and Hotels.com-branded sites globally.
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