The Virgin Islands plans a programme to turn cruise passengers into overnight guests. The cruise industry's own survey ranks the territory 27th of 33 on whether they would return, at 4.43 of 10. Each passenger spends 4.0 hours ashore and US$72.49, down 7 per cent since 2018.
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The Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana launched Explore Guyana 2027 at World Travel Market in London on 3 to 5 November 2026, with an arapaima on the cover and a QR code on a key ring. Five Guyanese operators stood with it, and the best October on record landed mid-fair.
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The Anguilla Tourist Board ran a sales and media mission in Rio de Janeiro from 30 October to 3 November 2026. Brazilians spent US$19.28 billion abroad in the first nine months of this year, and MSC Cruises has been selling a Dominican Republic package in Sao Paulo since August.
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The Guyana Tourism Authority published its Tourism Awareness Month calendar on 1 November 2026: 31 dated items from 31 October to 12 December. Regions One, Three, Five, Six and Eight carry nothing, two items are overseas, and no item carries a fee, a target or a deadline.
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Tourism Minister Susan Rodrigues put arrivals at 360,623 by September, ten per cent above 2025, and named a half-million target. The subtraction leaves 139,377 for a fourth quarter announced with two of its three months still to run.
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Mayor Ana Paty Peralta announced Renueva Cancún at the Cancún Travel Mart on 22 October 2026, under which hotels may be exempted from remodelling licence fees. The municipal tax law sets that fee at 0.77 UMA a square metre in the tourist zone, about 90.33 pesos.
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The Caribbean Tourism Organization elected its officers at its Annual General Meeting in Georgetown in October 2026. Antigua and Barbuda took the chairmanship and the Board chair, two CARICOM vice-chairmanships went to St Kitts and Nevis and The Bahamas, and the Dutch-speaking seat was deferred.
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At the Caribbean Tourism Organisation conference in Georgetown, Jamaica's Edmund Bartlett proposed a visitor-funded resilience fund on 6 October and President Irfaan Ali called Caribbean investors "too laid-back" on 7 October. Guyana recorded 360,623 arrivals in nine months.
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The Dominican Republic received 9,241,246 visitors between January and September 2026, up 7.5 per cent, Tourism Minister David Collado said on 6 October. September alone brought 684,831, more than Cuba's 419,863 for January to July. Cruise arrivals grew 54.7 per cent.
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Jamaica's Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett proposed a Caribbean Tourism Resilience Fund financed by visitor fees at the CTO Ministerial Council in Georgetown on 6 October 2026. He named Jamaica's Tourism Enhancement Fund as the model. That fee has gone to the Consolidated Fund since 2017.
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Cuba drew 419,863 international visitors between January and July 2026, 37.2 per cent of the same period in 2025, on ONEI figures. Melia, Iberostar and Royalton suspended contracts. Caribbean tourism leaders convene in Georgetown from 5 October for SOTIC 2026.
Read More →The Grenada Tourism Authority completed a four-day sales mission in Guyana this week, targeting the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Events market and Guyana's growing professional and expatriate classes. Its officials held talks with corporate partners and with local travel-trade operators.
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