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Guest numbers climb toward pre-pandemic levels

Guest numbers climb toward pre-pandemic levels

| 02/01/2024 | 12 Comments

(CNS): Overnight guest arrivals in November 2023 reached 93% of the numbers for the same month in 2019, the last year before the Cayman Islands Government shut the borders to protect the country from COVID-19, according to Department of Tourism statistics. However, the pace of return was impacted by the borders here remaining closed longer […]

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CAL to increase Miami flights, DoT seeks new routes

CAL to increase Miami flights, DoT seeks new routes

| 15/12/2023 | 117 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Airways management team is planning to add more flights to Miami to meet demand, and the Department of Tourism is mulling new routes to the United States to attract new visitors from Kansas and Texas. As the parliament’s Finance Committee questioned CAL Executive Vice President Finance and Commercial Affairs Paul Tibbetts about […]

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Inflation boosts government’s tourism revenue

Inflation boosts government’s tourism revenue

| 24/07/2023 | 36 Comments

(CNS): The number of overnight guests visiting the Cayman Islands this year is now close to pre-pandemic levels, providing a welcome increase in government revenue, which has been boosted by inflation that has led to an increase in hotel room rates. Tourism Accommodation Taxes and Fees have already surpassed the annual budget forecast in the […]

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Benefits of new $76M airport project to ‘trickle down’

Benefits of new $76M airport project to ‘trickle down’

| 31/05/2023 | 201 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Island Government (CIG) has approved a $28 million expansion of the runway into the North Sound at Owen Roberts International Airport and a $42 million rebuild of the General Aviation Terminal for private jets. Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan said Tuesday that Cabinet had given the green light to four elements of the […]

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Three local women take up senior jobs at DoT

Three local women take up senior jobs at DoT

| 21/02/2023 | 17 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands Department of Tourism has hired three Caymanian women to work in various management positions. Marzeta Bodden has been appointed as the deputy director for Tourism Product Development, Lauren Brook as the manager for Global Public Relations Services, and Tristaca Ebanks as manager of National Promotions and Events. 

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Bryan voted in as CTO chairman unopposed

Bryan voted in as CTO chairman unopposed

| 14/09/2022 | 62 Comments

(CNS): Cayman Islands Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan has been voted in as chair of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO). The local minister was elected unopposed on Tuesday evening during the CTO Council of Ministers meeting at the regional tourism conference currently being hosted at the Ritz-Carlton. Bryan is the first CTO chairman from the Cayman […]

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Airlift predicted to increase for 2022 high season

Airlift predicted to increase for 2022 high season

| 19/08/2022 | 37 Comments

(CNS): The Cayman Islands is expected to see a 1% increase in its airlift capacity during the last quarter of this year when compared to the last quarter of 2019, which was the last high season period before the COVID pandemic decimated the tourism sector. Officials at the Department of Tourism said in a press […]

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Mottley could headline CTO meeting in Cayman

Mottley could headline CTO meeting in Cayman

| 14/06/2022 | 21 Comments

(CNS): The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) will be holding its first major in-person conference since the COVID-19 pandemic in the Cayman Islands from 12-15 September and it is hoped that the widely popular and influential Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley will be a guest speaker.

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Cruise deal to help Cayman relay new policies

Cruise deal to help Cayman relay new policies

| 19/05/2022 | 81 Comments

(CNS): A new “tailored strategic agreement” between Cayman’s tourism ministry and the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association will improve channels of communication and help promote the destination as it shapes a new cruise policy. Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan explained that opening better channels of communication with the regional body that represents the cruise lines ahead of the […]

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High tourism hopes for return of CAL’s Denver flight

High tourism hopes for return of CAL’s Denver flight

| 08/02/2022 | 82 Comments

(CNS): Cayman Airways will re-start its nonstop weekly Saturday flights to Denver, Colorado, from Grand Cayman on 26 February, which, along with the return of several more airlines and routes this month, is fuelling high hopes for the tourism sector. Tourism Minister Kenneth Bryan stressed the importance of getting the national flag carrier to restart […]

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DoT using designer leather bags as promo tool

DoT using designer leather bags as promo tool

| 04/02/2022 | 163 Comments

(CNS): The Department of Tourism has taken another unusual turn in its efforts to promote the Cayman Islands to wealthy travellers, working with a Chicago-based luxury leather bag maker. In a press release issued Friday, officials said the department was partnering with the custom leather goods brand, Laudi Vidni, on a unique line of coloured leathers inspired […]

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