The Caribbean Tourism Organization remains committed to the advance of travel and tourism in the region. Together with the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) and their joint marketing and business arm, the Caribbean Tourism Development Company (CTDC), CTO is pursuing a hands-on policy aimed at strengthening the region’s traditional markets and tapping into a number of emerging markets that are becoming increasingly important for the sector everywhere under the sun. In this exclusive interview with Caribbean News Digital, CTO Interim Secretary General Hugh Riley speaks fluently about those new plans in the pipeline and the new challenges for his organization on the road ahead.

SuperClubs has a longstanding tradition as one of the fastest-growing, trendsetting hotel chain in the entire Caribbean region. Its adherence to providing excellence and top-notch service every step of the way has certainly put this company in the preference of millions of visitors from North America and Europe, though larger amounts of Latin American sunbathers are now flocking to its resorts. Though small when stacked up to other big-time chains from around the world, SuperClubs continues to elbow its way through in the competitive hotel and leisure market with a footprint of its own. In this exclusive interview with Caribbean News Digital, John Issa, the company’s president and owner, speaks enthusiastically about his vision of the ongoing situation and the plans the future holds for SuperClubs.

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.