Innovation and technology played a starring role at Fitur 2014, which this year devoted a large part of its trade program to analyzing the role that technologies have to play within the hotel sector and tourist industry as a whole. Throughout the course of Fiturtech and FiturGreen, tourism and hotel representatives and professionals explored the …
The VIK hotels Arena Blanca and Cayena Beach on Bavaro Beach, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, held their 12th annual partners’ appreciation party on January 10th. This dinner dinner gives the staff of both resorts an opportunity to honor and thank all the partners in tourism in Punta Cana, including tour operators, incoming agencies, local tour …
It was winter 1974 when Long Island, NY, watch salesman Dick Doumeng and his wife Joyce began to manage Bolongo Bay Beach Resort in sunny St. Thomas and beginning what would become a family legacy and icon in the US Virgin Islands. Forty years, more than 40,000 bottles of free rum, 2,200 weddings, 2,080 manager …
Following a record-breaking year in stopover arrivals of more than two million in 2013, Jamaica’s tourist industry continues on a path towards diversifying its product in order to maintain its competitiveness. A number of new and refurbished hotels, comprising more than 2,000 rooms, have been added to Jamaica’s accommodations portfolio. With the expansion, the destination …