Alexander Britell

1 week ago | caribjournal.com | Alexander Britell

It’s jaw-dropping beauty. The tall, thin palms swaying, the endless expanse of the golden sand. This is La Sagesse, and it’s Grenada’s mystical, almost supernatural stretch of sand. You walk through the lovely little hotel here (that shares its name with the beach) and find yourself under shade of the trees, looking out at one of those daydream-worthy coastlines.

1 week ago | caribjournal.com | Alexander Britell

These waters are special. You feel it when you take a flats boat out into the mangroves, when you hear the sound of the breeze, when you journey out for wahoo. There’s an otherworldly quality to Bimini, the tiny island 50 miles east of Miami that’s always been a magnet for adventurers. This isn’t The Bahamas you think you know. It’s raw and rugged, a place for the intrepid, a place that calls explorers.

1 week ago | caribjournal.com | Alexander Britell

Wine’s not the most common order when your toes are in the sand at the edge of the Caribbean Sea. But here at the Laughing Fish bar, I suddenly found myself ordering a glass of the house cab, followed by fresh-caught fish tacos, peering out at the shimmering blue off the coast of Placencia, Belize. Of course, this wasn’t just any wine. It was a 2022 bottle of the Francis Ford Coppola Diamond Collection, part of one of the most impressive collections of wine you’ll find at any Caribbean hotel.

1 week ago | caribjournal.com | Alexander Britell

CJ Invest, Hotels and Development, Special Reports By: Alexander BritellIt just might be the strongest hotel market in the Caribbean right now, a region that seems to be more resilient to the current global uncertainty than what you might think. So what is making Puerto Rico so resilient? It’s a combination of factors, according to JLL senior managing director Andrew Dickey, who runs the Hotels & Hospitality investment sales team of JLL for the Southeast US, Caribbean and Central American.

2 weeks ago | caribjournal.com | Alexander Britell

Curaçao’s tourism sector continued its growth trajectory in March, recording a 14% increase in stayover arrivals compared to the same period in 2024. According to data released by the Curaçao Tourist Board, the island welcomed 8,925 more stayover visitors in March, pushing the monthly total past 70,000. Growth was recorded across all key regions. Arrivals from the Caribbean rose by 33 percent, while South America and North America posted gains of 22 percent and 17 percent, respectively.