Officials at the Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD) are seeking proponents to design, finance, construct and operate an on-site hotel at Lynden Pindling International Airport. On Monday, January 21, the company issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) document outlining details required to bid on the proposed airport hotel project. Final proposal submissions will be due […]
Caribbean
Grenada reaches milestone half million tourist arrivals
Booming tourism helped Grenada reach a record half million stayover visitors in 2018, an historic milestone for the Caribbean’s “Spice Island.” Growth was spread across key niche markets: the combined cruise, yachting and stay over arrivals for 2018 was 528,077, an increase of 12.90% over 2017. Stay over arrivals rose by 9.97%, up from 146,375 […]
Furla opens new store in Trinidad and Tobago as Munday announces retirement
Furla’s latest opening in the Americas took place on Nov. 2 at Piarco International Airport in Trinidad and Tobago, in partnership with travel retailer Gone Bananas. The 15 sqm space is featuring Furla’s Autumn Winter 2018 collection. Furla’s Global Travel Retail Director Gerry Munday said: “The store looks great and I’d like to extend my thanks […]
400 aviation executives attend sold-out 2018 ACI-LAC Annual Assembly and Conference hosted by MIA
Some 400 aviation executives from through-out the Western Hemisphere attended the 2018 Airports Council International – Latin America & Caribbean (ACI-LAC) Annual Assembly and Conference that took place in Miami last week, hosted by Miami International Airport, which is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. MIA is the busiest gateway airport of the Americas, serving […]
LAC airports face capacity challenges as passenger traffic growth continues
As passenger traffic in the Latin America-Caribbean region continues to grow, Airports Council International (ACI) World and ACI Latin America-Caribbean have called for a whole-of-industry response to the forecast growth in demand for air services in the region. This call was made as the ACI Latin America-Caribbean Annual Assembly and Conference got underway this week in Miami. […]
Kirk Freeport, Jacques Scott among local winners of new Cayman airport concessions
The Cayman Islands Airports Authority (CIAA) has announced the winning bidders to operate the Retail, Duty Free and Food & Beverage locations at Owen Roberts International Airport. Retail and duty free shopping will be provided by Kirk Freeport, Last Chance Island Souvenirs, Bodden Freeport, Tortuga Rum Co., Jacques Scott, Island Jewellers and Churchill Cigars. The […]
Rouge Duty Free solidifies business in St. Thomas and Grenada, as it prepares to debut in the U.S.
Rouge Duty Free Retail Caribe continues to make impressive strides in developing its chain of duty free stores in the Caribbean, where it now operates major venues in Grenada and St. Thomas and is additionally debuting in the U.S. local market with a travel-friendly store in the Prime Outlets Mall in Orlando, Florida. The Group […]
Independent report links nearly 3,000 deaths in Puerto Rico to Hurricane Maria
An independent report published today, Aug. 28, estimated that there were 2,975 excess deaths in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria from September 2017 through the end of February 2018, a number that is 22 percent higher than the number of deaths that would have been expected during that period in a year without the storm. […]
St. Kitts passes one million cruise passengers
St. Kitts received its millionth cruise passenger for the first time in its history on July 16. The milestone passenger arrived onboard Royal Caribbean Cruise’s the Freedom of the Seas. Tourism Minister Lindsay Grant led the welcome delegation and selected the millionth passenger upon disembarkation, who was treated to a complimentary island tour. The historic occasion […]
In the first year, the WEBB Banks merger delivers sterling results
A year and a half after the merger of North Carolina’s Banks Channel and Miami’s WEBB, the newly created wine and spirits distributor has had a highly successful integration, even with the devastating hurricanes that struck parts of the Caribbean last summer. First half sales for 2018 are up 33 percent against the pre-hurricane numbers […]
Americas-Caribbean airline route review: US has two-thirds of seats; Rio-São Paulo is busiest route
Airline network news and analysis group anna-aero reports that domestic South and Central American services top the Americas and Caribbean route rankings, even though US airports and airlines dominate the market in terms of available capacity and account for more than two-thirds of the region’s weekly departing seats. In fact, anna-aero reports that the four […]
Tourism group cautions Caribbean governments on raising air passenger duties
The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) is strongly urging Caribbean governments to consider carefully the impact of leveling high air travel-related taxes and fees on travel demand as the struggling island nations wrestle with balancing budgets. CHTA’s Director General and CEO Frank Comito, speaking last Friday following the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Aviation Day […]
Luxottica and Duty Free Americas develop standalone sunglasses boutique concept at Punta Cana International Airport
Eyewear leader Luxottica Group and Duty Free Americas have partnered to develop a new stand-alone Sunglasses boutique at Punta Cana International Airport’s Terminal A, Dominican Republic. This cutting-edge store – which was custom-designed for the location – is the first stand-alone space for the sunglasses category operated by DFA. Built on sunglasses category management principles, the boutique […]
Artco Group showcases new Caribbean stores
Artco Group, the Miami-based specialist store planners, designers and manufacturers of customer millwork and store fixtures, has been providing store designs for the duty free and travel retail industry for the past 30 years, always staying ahead of the retail trend. The company created some striking new stores in the Caribbean this past year, and […]
Top Brands International enters St. Thomas market with duty free concession at the historic A.H.Riise Mall
Panamanian company Top Brands International continues to power ahead with its expansion strategy in the Americas, and announces an important new retail concession contract with the owners of the A.H.Riise Mall in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Danny Yohoros, President of Top Brands International, tells TMI that his company will be operating more than 6,000 […]
