Cruise options for locals

Cruise options for locals

It’s not a topic often explored but, yes, Jamaicans do go on cruises that leave from the country’s shores. LetsTravelCaribbean.com sought out managing director at Leisure for Pleasure Holidays and Tours Limited Judith James-Watts for details on upcoming cruise options...
Homecoming Tour

Homecoming Tour

It’s an almost two-decades-old tradition. A group of hardworking Jamaicans living in Florida spend five relaxing days at one of the Sandals Resorts across the Caribbean. By the end of their trip, they vote on which property they will visit the next year. It’s the Duke...
Bahamas launches Junkanoo workshop

Bahamas launches Junkanoo workshop

What better way to truly experience the spirit of the Bahamian culture than creating your very own “tricked out” Junkanoo costume piece and participating in a live Junkanoo rush out? The Bahamas Tourist Office Florida Sales Team hosted more than a dozen travel...
St Mary gets ready

St Mary gets ready

Cookshop operator Audley Kidd can’t wait to introduce Jamaica, through its food, to visitors who arrive at the Ian Fleming International Airport (IFIA). He has a reputation, in Oracabessa — the closest town to the airport, for serving up mouth-watering turn cornmeal;...
Wedding market BOOST from Tampa flight

Wedding market BOOST from Tampa flight

Frontier Airlines’ first flight ever from Tampa to Montego Bay is expected to bode well for Jamaica, especially the wedding segment of the country’s tourism market. “This flight is a new market, Tampa. We’ve never had flights out of that northern portion of Florida...