Secretary General of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), Hugh Riley, said in his Christmas message - "2016 has been an impressive but also challenging year for tourism in the region."

2017 will be a year when people look beyond the Eurozone and countries with currencies pegged to the US dollar, to nations with economies more precarious than our own.

Bursch Travel in Rapid City said that many people have contacted them about flying to Cuba.

The Dominican Republic is reporting an uptick in business travel, the country’s Ministry of Tourism said this week in its latest update.

Biodiversity is already a part of Mexico’s identity and is recognized abroad as one of its most emblematic characteristics, as well as one of the primary reasons why tourists visit the country.

Tourism is expected to grow in large numbers, with some 1.8 billion tourists expected to travel by 2030