Lamenda Kingdon, 62, from Plymouth, wanted to see the Alhambra Palace in the Spanish region of Granada after being diagnosed with breast cancer. However she was put on a flight to the Caribbean island Grenada by travel rewards company Avios, …

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FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique — Airlift, air access, airline mergers and airline taxes figured heavily into the discussion topics at the recent Caribbean Tourism Organization’s State of the Industry conference here. Concerns surrounding the impact of consolidation in the U.S. airline industry …

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FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique — Chinese travelers like to shop, Russian tourists want beaches and Brazilian visitors love nightlife. Generalities all, but interesting facets of the top emerging outbound markets nonetheless. These factoids and others took center stage at a PowerPoint presentation …

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WILLEMSTAD – The article was published in the Netherlands’ largest mind style magazine ‘Happinez’, “The silent power of Curaçao’, in April 2013 has been nominated for the Caribbean Travel Writers Award 2013. Caribbean Travel Writers Award The Caribbean Travel Writers …

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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — During four days in the historic heart of the Dominican capital, I saw men gather every afternoon in the central square to play dominoes, usually ringed by crowds of onlookers. I saw four women park …

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FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique — The number of travelers visiting the Caribbean from January through July was flat from a year earlier at 15.6 million, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization. Figures were released at CTO’s State of the Industry Conference held …

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