The impressive jump in visitors also keeps the city on pace to reach its goal of 55 million visitors by 2020. That mark, set three years ago, could easily be surpassed this coming year.

Vogue Magazine has named Trinidad and Tobago one of the 10 Hottest Travel Destinations of 2017.

The twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda ended 2016 on a high note by celebrating the arrival of its 100,000th U.S. Visitor for the year, for the first time in over ten years.

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.