Dominican Republic leads Caribbean in tourist arrivals
April 11, 2013
With just over 10 million people, the Dominican Republic is the second-largest Caribbean nation after Cuba. But the D.R. is clear and away the regional leader when it comes to tourism. In 2012, more than ...
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Curaçao retailers protest sales tax hike as Venezuelan uncertainty looms
April 10, 2013
Economic difficulties in Curaçao — the largest Dutch-speaking island in the recently dissolved Netherlands Antilles confederation — as well as political uncertainty in nearby Venezuela, are affecting retailers ahead of a planned hike in the ...
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Cuba hopes for U.S. travel boom, as charter flights remain grounded
April 8, 2013
A record 2.84 million tourists visited Cuba last year, up 4.5 percent from 2011 figures (by comparison, only 326,000 tourists came to Cuba in 1989). More than one million of them came from Canada, with ...
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