Puerto Rico has never homed in on the European and Latin American markets as other Caribbean island have done. The reason? The U.S. has always been by far its top outbound market. However, that perspective has changed in recent years and in addition to putting Europe’s major travelers in the crosshairs, the island nation has also set its smart money on emerging markets like Russia and China.

The Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) will soon be renamed as the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) in an effort to integrate under that new acronym all sectors of the region’s travel and tourism private field. This is only one of the first projects in the pipeline for the organization’s new front office that, as a matter of fact, is determined to keep up the good work and continue grabbing outbound markets and investments out of Europe, let alone position the Caribbean as a single travel destination.

Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, is no doubt one of the most historical locations in America, the city that gave birth to American democracy with the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. In an exclusive CND interview with Fritz Smith, vice president of the Philadelphia Visitors and Conventions Bureau, our readers will learn more about the many options this lovely location on the East Coast of the United States has to offer as a travel destination.

Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, is no doubt one of the most historical locations in America, the city that gave birth to American democracy with the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. In an exclusive CND interview with Fritz Smith, vice president of the Philadelphia Visitors and Conventions Bureau, our readers will learn more about the many options this lovely location on the East Coast of the United States has to offer as a travel destination.

Over the past couple of years, RIU has kept up a steady pace as far as hotel investments are concerned. The company’s entry in Costa Rica, Aruba and Cape Verde speak volumes of its vision of future. “We’ve managed to go our customers’ desires one better and find out those places that can be interesting to them,” said Luis Riu Guell in an exclusive interview with Caribbean News Digital.

SuperClubs has been and continues to be a successful hotel project in the Caribbean and that’s owed in part to the inflows of guests from the U.S. and Canada –by far the company’s two largest outbound markets for its properties in several countries across the region. In an exclusive interview with Caribbean News Digital a few weeks ago during JAPEX 2008 in Kingston, Jamaica, Tom Anderson, Head of the SuperClubs Sales & Marketing Division for the American and Canadian markets, spelled out some of the plan the hotel chain has in store.