The Caribbean Tourism Organization remains committed to the advance of travel and tourism in the region. Together with the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) and their joint marketing and business arm, the Caribbean Tourism Development Company (CTDC), CTO is pursuing a hands-on policy aimed at strengthening the region’s traditional markets and tapping into a number of emerging markets that are becoming increasingly important for the sector everywhere under the sun. In this exclusive interview with Caribbean News Digital, CTO Interim Secretary General Hugh Riley speaks fluently about those new plans in the pipeline and the new challenges for his organization on the road ahead.

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SuperClubs has a longstanding tradition as one of the fastest-growing, trendsetting hotel chain in the entire Caribbean region. Its adherence to providing excellence and top-notch service every step of the way has certainly put this company in the preference of millions of visitors from North America and Europe, though larger amounts of Latin American sunbathers are now flocking to its resorts. Though small when stacked up to other big-time chains from around the world, SuperClubs continues to elbow its way through in the competitive hotel and leisure market with a footprint of its own. In this exclusive interview with Caribbean News Digital, John Issa, the company’s president and owner, speaks enthusiastically about his vision of the ongoing situation and the plans the future holds for SuperClubs.

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Puerto Rico has never homed in on the European and Latin American markets as other Caribbean island have done. The reason? The U.S. has always been by far its top outbound market. However, that perspective has changed in recent years and in addition to putting Europe’s major travelers in the crosshairs, the island nation has also set its smart money on emerging markets like Russia and China.

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The Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) will soon be renamed as the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) in an effort to integrate under that new acronym all sectors of the region’s travel and tourism private field. This is only one of the first projects in the pipeline for the organization’s new front office that, as a matter of fact, is determined to keep up the good work and continue grabbing outbound markets and investments out of Europe, let alone position the Caribbean as a single travel destination.

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Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, is no doubt one of the most historical locations in America, the city that gave birth to American democracy with the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. In an exclusive CND interview with Fritz Smith, vice president of the Philadelphia Visitors and Conventions Bureau, our readers will learn more about the many options this lovely location on the East Coast of the United States has to offer as a travel destination.

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Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, is no doubt one of the most historical locations in America, the city that gave birth to American democracy with the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. In an exclusive CND interview with Fritz Smith, vice president of the Philadelphia Visitors and Conventions Bureau, our readers will learn more about the many options this lovely location on the East Coast of the United States has to offer as a travel destination.

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Over the past couple of years, RIU has kept up a steady pace as far as hotel investments are concerned. The company’s entry in Costa Rica, Aruba and Cape Verde speak volumes of its vision of future. “We’ve managed to go our customers’ desires one better and find out those places that can be interesting to them,” said Luis Riu Guell in an exclusive interview with Caribbean News Digital.

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SuperClubs has been and continues to be a successful hotel project in the Caribbean and that’s owed in part to the inflows of guests from the U.S. and Canada –by far the company’s two largest outbound markets for its properties in several countries across the region. In an exclusive interview with Caribbean News Digital a few weeks ago during JAPEX 2008 in Kingston, Jamaica, Tom Anderson, Head of the SuperClubs Sales & Marketing Division for the American and Canadian markets, spelled out some of the plan the hotel chain has in store.

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Bulgaria’s travel industry has been putting good numbers on the board over the past couple of years, yet local authorities believe there’s still a long way to go in terms of service quality in a bid to draw far more tourists from Europe. That’s the opinion expressed by Polly Karastoyanova, Executive Director of the National Tourist Board of Bulgaria, in this exclusive interview with Caribbean News Digital.

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The Jamaica Hotels & Tourism Association (JHTA) has a longstanding reputation as an organization that welcomes local properties and international hotel chains to its membership with open arms as long as they abide by the guidelines established by the Jamaica Tourist Board. Right now, Spanish hotel companies and groups with major investments on the island nation are also pleased to be members of JHTA. About this and other topics, Caribbean News Digital spoke exclusively with JHTA executive director Camille Needham during the 2008 JAPEX in Kingston.

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