UNESCO has added 19 new sites and extended another to its coveted World Heritage list this summer.

Increased flights and capacity, as well as re-routed bookings to the island during last year’s hurricane season, all factored into Curacao’s 10 percent increase in North American arrivals.

Tourism representatives from Turks and Caicos Islands captured two of four Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) tourism industry awards at the opening of the fourth CHIEF.

The first quarter proved to be the best in terms of tourism. The revenues generated at the time of this quarter have been increasing over the last nine years.

Over the last five years, Latin America has been the scene of sporting mega-events, such as the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and the World Cup in 2014, also in Brazil.

The Caribbean was the only sub-region to experience a decline in arrivals, with visitors down 9 percent on the same period in 2017 as some destinations continued to struggle from the impact of last autumn’s hurricanes.