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This year the act of predicting Caribbean travel trends feels like betting on a ball game where they’ve changed...

This fall and winter, Marriott Caribbean and Latin America Resorts is inviting guests to take advantage of travel deals at 15 beachfront resorts in warm-weather destinations across the Caribbean and Latin America.

Because of the overwhelming amount of deals we've received, we decided to post one last roundup of holiday deals just in time for the annual Black Friday/Cyber Monday "salebration."

MSC Cruises is celebrating Plan a Cruise Month, this October, by offering 50 percent savings on brochure rates, bonus commission on MSC Yacht Club bookings, and BOGO Caribbean, Mediterranean and Northern Europe cruises, including a 10-night cruise to Colombia, Aruba, Curaçao, Grand Turk Island and and Nassau.

Think you know Diana Plazas, v.p. of brand, marketing and digital for Caribbean and Latin America for Marriott International, think again….

Island Routes celebrated its seventh anniversary on June 1, and with that came the announcement of a new destination (its 12th one, in fact)—Mexico.

Two things astonished Recommend's Caribbean editor Ed Wetschler at Puerto Rico's second annual ETI, or Expo de Turismo International.

We caught up with Juan Perez Sosa, senior v.p. of sales and marketing, USA for Barcelo Hotels & Resorts, to ask about the growth of Barcelo and the company’s long-term strategy.

While the world experienced a 4.3 percent growth in international tourist arrivals (UNWTO’s latest figures for 2015), Caribbean arrivals rose 6 percent. That beats every other region on earth. Along with growth has come new resorts and nonstop flights, infrastructure upgrades (airports, roads, the late-night ferry to Anguilla, entire cities), and the “discovery” of Cuba, and huge swaths of the Dominican Republic.

Delta Vacations is helping travel agents add value to their Caribbean bookings with the addition of new commissionable excursion vouchers.

Hilton Worldwide’s plans to reach 100 hotels in Latin America and the Caribbean by the end of 2015 are well on its way.

Marriott Caribbean & Latin America Resorts has partnered with YouTube personality, Sarah Fit (Sarah Dussault), to launch Fit in Paradise, a new year-round exercise initiative.

These goodies are sure to help your bottom line.

Occidental Hotels & Resorts announced that Barcelo Corporation Empresarial reached an agreement with BBVA to acquire 57.5 percent of its capital in Occidental Hotels Management.

I’m sure by now you’ve heard of this startup tour operator that debuted last year selling vacations to the Caribbean and Mexico, and which is headed by industry veteran Steve Gorga—he’s CEO and president—and was founded by Elyse Elkin. But we wanted to know what made them so “exclusive” and why “group” when they also sell FIT.

Making sure your multi-gen clients are pampered, and creating long-lasting memories, is top priority at these Caribbean resorts.

Here are the takeaways—in short-hand style—from the Caribbean Travel Marketplace that took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico a couple of weeks back.

AskMeInc., a hospitality solutions company that creates programs for hotels and develops relationships between travel agents and its hotel clients, has launched Travel Agent Rewards Programs.

This time of the year I read the tea leaves (oolong tea, thank you) to reveal the top trends in Caribbean travel and decipher how they’ll affect travel advisors. The teapot, please...

Two Seabourn ships, the Seabourn Spirit and Seabourn Legend, will be returning to the Caribbean for their last sailing, just like when they first sailings over 20 years ago.