Making sure your group relaxes takes a lot of work. And the Caribbean is up for the challenge, says Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, secretary general of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), the Caribbean’s regional tourism association.
Addressing delegates at the annual Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Conference, held June 17-19 in Miami, Vanderpool-Wallace laid down a list of four objectives that anyone connected with Caribbean tourism should strive to meet.
“Goal No. 1 is delivering experiences that people can go home and brag about,” he said. “Goal No. 2 is low-cost, high-quality, high-frequency transportation. I don’t care how good your destination is. If I can’t get there or it’s too expensive to get there, I’m going someplace else.”
Vanderpool-Wallace went on to describe goal No. 3, the efficient delivery of effective tourism information, and goal No. 4, removing any impediments to tourism growth.
While that last one might be the most challenging, if recent happenings are any indication, the region may be well on its way to achieving its aims.
While Vanderpool-Wallace called the Caribbean “the world’s best unknown brand,” a new private, for-profit entity created from the existing CTO and the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) just might change all that. Legally formed last December, the Caribbean Tourism Development Company plans to promote the region through a new website launching this September while also taking existing promotional materials under its umbrella, including the industry “bible,” the Caribbean Gold Book, which has rebranded as CaribbeanTravel.com–The Magazine.
While efforts to market the Caribbean step up, airlift into the region continues to rise, with Delta, Air Jamaica, Spirit, and others adding destinations and increasing frequency to existing destinations.
In addition, more islands now fall under the provisions of the Tax Information Exchange Agreement with the U.S., making them tax deductible for meetings and conventions; that is, U.S. taxpayers can claim the same type of deduction as a “cost of doing business” that they would if the meeting were held on U.S. soil. The Netherlands Antilles, including Dutch St. Maarten, were the latest to adopt this tax-deductible status, joining Aruba, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and St. Kitts-Nevis, among others. As U.S. territories, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands automatically fall into the category of tax-deductible meetings destinations.
Also facilitating travel to, and doing business in, the Caribbean was the recent easing of passport requirements for U.S. travelers. Due to a backlog in passport processing, the U.S. Department of State announced June 8 that instead of needing the passport itself, U.S. citizens could re-enter the U.S. by air through Sept. 30 with proof of their passport application.
Some tourism officials feel, however, that the passport question is a nonissue for most meeting and convention attendees.
“Of all the travel markets, the passport law has affected the group travel market the least,” declares James Malcolm, executive director of group travel for the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. “Meeting planners, incentive houses and professional group travel management companies are hired to be proactive. I polled some of the larger group travel firms and large corporate meeting departments, and they said it hadn’t affected them a bit, because they knew it was coming and they were prepared.”
Marcia Bullock, regional director of groups and conventions for the Jamaica Tourist Board, agrees.
“In the area of meetings and incentives, we haven’t really seen passports as a big issue,” she says. “I think that most people who travel for meetings and incentives are more or less well-traveled, and many have a passport already.”
So the passports are in hand (or applied for), your company’s CFO is happy because the meeting is tax deductible, and you found a convenient flight into the island of your choice. What’s left? Oh yes—wowing your delegates and sending them home to brag. Shouldn’t be too difficult in a region where every border ends in a beach, where the landscape includes everything from volcanic peaks to rainforests and even deserts, where dining can mean haute French cuisine or conch fritters on a paper plate, and where “wow” is probably the most-uttered word of all.
The Bahamas
Certain things about the Bahamas will probably never change—500 miles of crystal-clear waters wrapping around 700 islands and sheltering the world’s third-longest barrier reef; the colonial charm of Nassau and the freewheeling verve of Freeport; remote locations where you can completely unplug from civilization; and friendly, laid-back locals who offer their island experiences with a smile.
And yet, when it comes to new developments, the Bahamas seem to be moving at the speed of light. The June 12 opening of the 700-room Sheraton Cable Beach Resort (formerly the Radisson Cable Beach Resort) marked the first phase of the $2.3 billion redevelopment of Cable Beach into Baha Mar, a 3,550-room resort and gaming destination that will include retail and meeting space, spas, restaurants, and a golf course. Slated for completion in 2010, Baha Mar also will include a 1,000-room Caesars Resort Hotel (featuring a casino), a 300-room W hotel, a 300-room St. Regis, and a 700-room Westin. The legendary Nassau Beach Hotel will bid adieu, but the 550-room Wyndham Nassau Resort is staying, following extensive renovations.
Baha Mar is Nassau’s answer to Paradise Island’s Atlantis, which keeps getting more massive; recent additions include Cove Atlantis, a 600-room, all-suite tower; the 63-acre Aquaventure, featuring water slides and river rides; and Dolphin Cay, where guests interact with dolphins in a habitat made up of nearly 7 million gallons of sea water within three lagoons.
“Atlantis just opened the largest ballroom in the Caribbean...with over 50,000 square feet and 30,000 square feet of prefunction space,” adds James Malcolm of the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. “Now Atlantis can boast over 300,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor function space. When Baha Mar is complete, you’re going to have two major mega-resort properties going head-to-head, which is good.”
With Baha Mar and Atlantis duking it out on New Providence Island, the Bahamas’ other major tourist destination, Grand Bahama Island, boasts some major developments of its own, including Ginn Sur Mer, a $4.9 billion resort community that will begin opening in phases within five years, Malcolm says. In addition to 4,400 condo and hotel units, plans call for a private airport, Jack Nicklaus- and Arnold Palmer-designed golf courses, and up to 20,000 square feet of meeting space.
Not to be outdone, the Out Islands will welcome a range of luxury brands within the next three years, including properties from Ritz-Carlton, AmanResorts, Mandarin Oriental, and Rock Resorts. Cotton Bay Estates, a Starwood property on Eleuthera, has completed its first phase of development—an all-villa boutique hotel, with a 67,000-square-foot clubhouse due next. Also in development on Eleuthera is Royal Island, a 480-acre community that will include a five-star hotel and a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course.
Other projects include 32 new units at Eleuthera’s Club at Pineapple Fields; Coral Sands’ new beach house on Harbour Island; and Bimini Bay Resort and Casino’s new residential rentals, with more slated to open this December. It’s the first phase of a development that will eventually include a Conrad Hotel and Casino.
The Out Islands just got easier to reach, too, with new nonstop service from Atlanta to Georgetown, Exuma and North Eleuthera on the Delta Connection. And if you’re bound for Club Med Columbus Isle on San Salvador, new direct service from Fort Lauderdale on Spirit Airlines gets you there quickly and easily.
U.S. Virgin Islands
Purchased from Denmark in 1917, this U.S. territory pairs a Caribbean feel with American familiarity.
“It’s easy to get lumped in with the rest of the Caribbean, but we have a special distinction that also sets us apart when it comes to planning meetings and incentives here,” says Allegra Kean Moorehead, director of communications for the USVI Department of Tourism. “Because we’re part of the U.S., participants don’t have to worry about passports, we use U.S. currency, and of course, speaking English makes things easier.”
Moorehead says that about 90 percent of the U.S. Virgin Islands’ group business comes from incentives that range in size from quite small to nearly 500, while many meetings and conferences involve continuing education seminars for the medical and legal professions.
Welcoming them are a host of properties either undergoing or completing major renovations, including The Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas, which recently reopened following three months of extensive enhancements; the new Marriott’s Frenchman’s Cove, a 28-villa vacation ownership property now adjacent to the 504-room Frenchman’s Reef and Morning Star Marriott Beach Resort; the Westin St. John Resort and Villas, which recently converted 186 hotel rooms into 94 two- and three-bedroom villas; and St. Croix’s oceanfront Carambola Beach Resort, which was reflagged a Renaissance Hotels and Resorts property this summer.
Off-site venues also make memorable settings in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Options range from a new 1,500-square-foot pavilion by Concordia Ecotents on St. John, to the islands’ many historic great houses and estates, and attractions like Coral World on St. Thomas, where groups can interact with South American sea lions before or after their event. And if you’re scouting spots for a group or incentive dinner, St. Thomas’ newly launched Yacht Haven Grande is home to four waterfront restaurants.
Whether the goal is team building or memory building, save some time for great duty-free shopping, Magens Bay beaches, Charlotte Amalie dine-arounds, team sailboat racing, and day trips to the other islands. If you’re staying on St. Thomas, it’s only a 20-minute ferry ride to St. John, two-thirds of which is encompassed by Virgin Islands National Park.
On St. Croix, quaint Christiansted offers shopping and dining in addition to a transformed cruise ship port complete with a park, fountains and cobblestone pedestrian paths along the waterfront.
If you’re flying into the U.S. Virgin Islands, Northwest Airlines now offers a nonstop Saturday flight between Detroit and St. Thomas, while Delta Airlines also recently inaugurated a nonstop Saturday flight to St. Thomas from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Puerto Rico
If you’re talking dramatic transformations, you must be talking about Puerto Rico. Ten years ago, this U.S. territory was a popular beach, party and casino destination. Today, it’s home to the largest convention center in the Caribbean, and it’s working aggressively toward becoming the region’s top destination for both business and pleasure.
“We’re still growing in tourism, and we still need to improve,” says Terestella Gonzalez Denton, executive director of the Puerto Rico Tourism Company. “We’ve increased flights to many destinations in the U.S. and continue to diversify our hotel product.”
Currently served by 23 airlines offering service to 62 destinations, the island has invested nearly $400 million in capital improvements to its main gateway—San Juan’s Luis Munoz Marin International Airport—while also upgrading secondary airports in Ponce and Aguadilla, which recently welcomed new service from Spirit Airlines.
In addition, more than 2,300 new hotel rooms totaling $777 million are under construction throughout the island, including the Renaissance La Concha Resort, opening this September with 248 rooms and 16,000 square feet of meeting space; the Condado Vanderbilt Hotel, scheduled for a 2008 debut with 300 rooms and 20,000 square feet of meeting space; and the Bahia Beach Resort and Golf Club, a 483-acre development 25 minutes from San Juan’s international airport that will unveil a Robert Trent Jones golf course this fall and a St. Regis Resort and Residences in 2009.
One of the island’s most anticipated properties is a 500-room Sheraton-flagged hotel that will anchor the convention center. The hotel is expected to open by 2009 or 2010. And before the year ends, Gonzalez says, an RFP will go out for another 500-room convention center hotel.
“In order to really promote the convention center, we need the room inventory,” Gonzalez says. “Our goal is 2,000 rooms catering to the convention center.”
While San Juan’s downtown convention center district continues to develop, another convention facility is on the horizon. Empresas Santana is investing $150 million over the next two years to build four new properties in Puerto Rico under the Starwood flag. One of them—a 250-room Sheraton in Ponce—will be the anchor hotel for a 60,000-square-foot conference center currently under construction; both the hotel, its casino and conference center are scheduled to open in March 2009.
The other Starwood properties under development include a 200-room Sheraton in Barceloneta; a 200-room Four Points by Sheraton in Manati; and a 125-room “aloft” hotel in Isla Verde.
Meanwhile, the Westin Rio Mar Beach Golf Resort and Spa is now the Rio Mar Beach Resort and Spa, the first resort in the Wyndham Grand Collection. In addition to investing $36 million for upgrades, Wyndham will spend $300 million to build 1,613 timeshare units at the resort. The 600-room property boasts a 48,000-square-foot oceanfront conference center.
Additionally, the massive El Conquistador Resort and Golden Door Spa in Fajardo recently unveiled a new $32 million conference center, giving the resort two adjacent conference areas with a total of four ballrooms. Major renovations also have transformed the El San Juan Hotel and the San Juan Marriott Resort and Stellaris Casino, while the Caribe Hilton is investing $14 million in upgrades, the Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel is putting $4.5 million into capital improvements, and the Normandie Hotel is set to become Puerto Rico’s first W property by the end of the year.
Jamaica
There’s a new convention center in town. Or at least, there will be, when Montego Bay’s stand-alone conference center is ready. Until this point, larger groups heading to the “land of wood and water” usually headed to Kingston’s Jamaica Conference Centre, where the largest room can accommodate up to 1,050.
Groups meeting in Montego Bay, though, have relied on hotel- and resort-based facilities like those at Half Moon, where 26,000 square feet of meeting space includes the 12,000-square-foot Cornwall Room, which hosted the ninth G15 Summit in 1999; and The Ritz-Carlton Golf and Spa Resort, Rose Hall, Jamaica, whose 25,000 square feet of function space includes the famed Rose Hall Great House.
The largest room at the new facility will be 25,000 square feet, reports Marcia Bullock, regional director of groups and conventions for the Jamaica Tourist Bureau.
“Most of our hotels have their own meeting facilities,” Bullock says. “What the conference center will do, of course, is allow us to attract larger groups.”
The new facility is scheduled to break ground soon and should be ready within 18 months once construction starts, according to Bullock.
The convention center is one of several new developments on this 146-mile-by-51-mile island of mountains, beaches, waterfalls, coffee plantations, and reggae festivals.
Two new hotel brands are joining Jamaica’s mix of all-inclusive resorts and premium-flag hotels. The newly opened Iberostar Rose Hall Beach is not only a first for Jamaica, but it’s the first Iberostar property to feature an all-ocean-view configuration. And coming in mid-2009 is Jamaica’s first Secrets Resort and Spa, Secrets Montego Bay (an AMResort), featuring two 350-suite, adults-only resorts offering such pampering incentives as oceanfront massage cabanas, private concierges on every floor and a state-of-the-art, open-air theater.
Grand Cayman
Grand Cayman has been one of the world’s most popular dive destinations for decades, and spectacular locales like Seven Mile Beach and Boatswain’s Beach—a 23-acre adventure marine park—make it one of the most beautiful of all the Caribbean jewels.
Grand Cayman also boasts a collection of luxury hotels and resorts, including The Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman, which is set on 144 acres and offers 365 rooms and more than 13,000 square feet of meeting space, including the island’s largest ballroom.
Joining The Ritz-Carlton on Seven Mile Beach is the Hyatt Regency Grand Cayman Beach Suites, with 1,200 square feet of indoor meeting space; and the Westin Casuarina Resort and Spa, with 343 guest rooms and conference facilities for up to 400.
Aruba
A true “desert isle,” Aruba’s scant rainfall and cacti formations give it a unique topographic character, while its Dutch heritage gives towns like Oranjestad a distinct Europe-in-the-tropics flavor.
But while you’re enjoying Aruba’s modern delights—including dine-arounds, shopping, golf, and tennis—the prehistoric world awaits at sites like Arikok National Park, where painted Amerindian petrography has been found.
It’s strictly state-of-the-art, though, when it comes to facilities for meetings and conventions. The Renaissance Convention Center, one of the largest in the Caribbean, offers 22,000 square feet of meeting and function space, complete audiovisual systems and a main ballroom that handles up to 1,600 theater style.
Resort-based facilities are just as impressive. The recently renovated, 353-room Radisson Aruba Resort and Casino, for one, boasts more than 15,000 square feet of meeting and event space, including the 900-person Grand Caribbean Ballroom, while the newly renovated Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort and Casino offers more than 10,000 square feet of function space, including prefunction areas and nine meeting rooms. The Westin Aruba and Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort also house extensive meeting facilities.
Another large property, the 413-room Aruba Marriott Resort and Stellaris Casino—featuring 11,000 square feet of meeting space—just embarked on a $40 million enhancement program to be completed by this December.
On the smaller side, the 40-room Coconut Inn, which bills itself as “Aruba’s only budget motel,” is launching a $33 million, 160-room expansion project set for completion in mid-2008.
In fact, upgrades and new projects seem to be breaking out all over Aruba. Slated to open July 20 is the island’s first Riu property, the Riu Palace, whose 450 guest rooms and suites, two pools, 10 restaurants and bars, and two conference rooms are enhanced by an oceanfront setting on Palm Beach.
Meanwhile, construction is set to start soon on Kasa Alba, a new boutique resort and condominium featuring one- and two-bedroom units and a meeting room.
Saint Martin/Sint Maarten
Two sovereign nations sharing one small island in the Caribbean, with two official languages, two unique cultures and yet a peaceful coexistence with no border erected between them? It sounds like paradise—and many would say it is on the 37-square-mile island of St. Martin/St. Maarten, which has been shared by the French and Dutch for more than 350 years.
If anything, the two countries are perfect complements, as visitors make their way from French bakeries, seaside cafes and the open-air food and spice market of the French capital of Marigot to the streets of Philipsburg, the Dutch capital, which is lined by blocks and blocks of shops selling discount fashions, crystal, jewelry, electronics, and liquor.
The two countries’ meeting facilities are distinctly different as well. The larger resorts and meeting venues are on the Dutch side and include the 527-room Sonesta Maho Beach Resort and Casino, with 27,000 square feet of function space, and the new 310-room Westin St. Maarten Dawn Beach Resort and Spa, with 20,000 square feet of meeting space. Smaller gatherings, meanwhile, are a good fit for the Sonesta Great Bay Beach Resort and Casino.
On the French side, Le Flamboyant Hotel and Resort welcomes small groups with 200 rooms and 6,000 square feet of function space, while the elegant La Samanna offers 81 rooms and hosts small groups in the Rendezvous Pavilion, a discreet, stand-alone structure set apart from the main resort area.
But look for the French side’s reputation as a meetings destination to grow with the summer 2008 opening of the Radisson Resort St. Martin, which will offer more than 5,000 square feet of meeting space, 189 rooms and 61 suites, and a full-service marina.
St. Kitts
Once the wealthiest of the English Caribbean colonies, yielding a fortune in sugar and rum every year, St. Kitts today is a vacation gem of surprising variety within a limited space. This 69-square-mile volcanic island has dramatic mountains at its center, sandy beaches at its shore and an interior tropical rainforest that can be explored on hiking excursions. It’s also the only Leeward Island in the Caribbean that still grows sugar cane, and visitors can explore this heritage aboard the “sugar train,” the region’s only scenic passenger railway.
The island’s main conference venue is the St. Kitts Marriott Resort and The Royal Beach Casino, boasting 573 guest rooms, a championship golf course, a huge Vegas-style casino, and 38,000 square feet of meeting space. Intimate plantation inns and smaller hotels also provide group facilities, but more development could be at hand.
Dominican Republic
“You’re hired.” As fans of Donald Trump’s tycoon-making TV show The Apprentice know, with those words, the real estate mogul announced that he was placing his newest assistant, California lawyer Stefani Schaeffer, at the helm of one of his newest projects—Trump at Cap Cana, a $1 billion-plus resort and residential development on the Dominican Republic’s fast-growing east coast.
With Trump’s seal of approval, the Dominican Republic is no longer a developing tourist destination—it has arrived. For the first time, the “DR” has been included on several elite “best of” lists, such as the New York Times’ top 10 Caribbean escapes, Conde Nast Traveler’s top 12 hot new destinations for 2007 and Budget Travel’s list of budget-friendly destinations. In addition, the destination’s golf courses have been lauded in national newspapers and golf magazines, a long list of celebrity investors now includes actor-director Robert De Niro, and the country has just become Delta Airlines’ fourth-largest destination.
So what does everyone know that maybe you don’t? It could be the mountain peaks—some taller than the Alps—within the central mountain range, or the day hikes to waterfalls hidden within cliffs. It could be the humpback whales that come to Samana Bay every winter, or the colonial splendor of Santo Domingo, the capital city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site of stone structures dating back to the 1500s. Maybe it’s the pristine beaches or the cigar factory tours.
But if you’re a meeting planner, it’s likely to be all of the above plus some fantastic meeting facilities, which you’ll find all over the country but especially in the capital city, with its high-rise convention hotels and a major convention center; the north coast, home to the resort town of Puerto Plata; the southeastern coastal town of La Romana, famous for its Casa de Campo resort; and Punta Cana on the easternmost tip of the island.
In Punta Cana, complete destination resorts with meeting space include the Melia Caribe Tropical, Allegro Punta Cana, and Club Med Punta Cana, which combines activities like windsurfing, sailing, kayaking, and the flying trapeze with 7,000 square feet of meeting space.
And there’s more on the way, including the Westin Roco Ki Beach and Golf Resort, slated to open in Punta Cana next May; the Moon Palace Casino, Golf and Spa Resort, scheduled for a 2008 debut in Punta Cana; and two Secrets resorts: Secrets Casa del Mar La Romana and Secrets Punta Cana Resort and Spa, both due at the end of 2008.
Meanwhile, a collection of new resorts just opened on the east coast, including Agua Resort and Spa, with 53 suites and meeting facilities; and Sivory Punta Cana, a boutique property known for its gourmet food, 8,000-bottle wine cellar and spa/wellness center.
Cancun, Cozumel and the Riviera Maya
Budding archaeologists and beach bums alike love the Mexican Caribbean, a region of fabulous resorts and tiny villages, Mayan temples and glitzy clubs, anchored by the high-energy coastal city of Cancun and stretching into the mysterious jungle areas of the Riviera Maya and its island neighbor, Cozumel.
Where else can you spend the day at a 2,000-year-old ruin and then spend the night in a $2,000 hotel suite overlooking the ocean?
Okay, maybe you won’t be paying that much. The variety of accommodations along the Yucatan Peninsula’s coastline is as staggering as the number of recreational possibilities—fishing, diving, snorkeling, sunbathing, eco-touring, and, of course, searching for the best tequila. Will there be time for the meeting? That’s where you come in.
The Mexican Caribbean makes it easy to get down to business with facilities like the Cancun Center, located right in the middle of the city’s hotel zone and offering 153,000 square feet of meeting and exhibit space.
Surrounding hotels have ample meeting space as well, including the 418-room CasaMagna Marriott Cancun Resort, with 12 meeting rooms totaling 11,000 square feet of space; The Westin Resort and Spa Cancun, with 379 guest rooms and 11 meeting rooms; and the 299-room Presidente InterContinental Cancun Resort, located five minutes from the convention center and offering five meeting rooms on-site.
Also in Cancun are big-business brands like Hilton, JW Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, Hyatt Regency, and Iberostar, while the destination also boasts a range of emerging brands, including AMResorts’ Secrets, which will debut both the Secrets Maroma Beach Riviera Cancun and the Secrets SilverSands Riviera Cancun in 2008.
Meanwhile, other properties are sporting major renovations, including the Cancun Palace, home to 17,000 square feet of flexible function space, and Club Med Cancun Yucatan, which features 1,700 square feet of function space and recently wrapped up a $24 million refurbishment. Several other properties have also completed total makeovers, including Occidental Grand Cancun, Casa Turquesa, Beach Palace, and El Pueblito Beach Cancun.
With all of the new and refurbished hotel rooms, a new airport terminal might be in order—and it is, at Cancun International Airport, which recently completed a third terminal, doubling its capacity to serve international travelers.
Heading south, the Riviera Maya was an important center for commerce a thousand years ago, and it still is today, as meeting groups gather at places like Royal Hideaway Playacar, Gran Porto Real Resort and Spa, Occidental Grand Xcaret, Aventura Spa Palace, Dreams Tulum Resort and Spa, and the new Fairmont Mayakoba.
Meanwhile, the Mandarin Orientla is slated to open this fall.
And on Cozumel, when groups aren’t busy deep-sea fishing, sailing or touring a museum, they’re meeting at Melia Cozumel; the newly renovated Presidente InterContinental; Hotel Cozumel and Resort; El Cozumeleno; and Park Royal Cozumel.
For More Info
Aruba Tourism Authority 800.TO.ARUBA
www.aruba.com www.arubaconventionbureau.com
Bahamas Ministry of Tourism 800.BAHAMAS
www.bahamas.com
Cancun CVB 011.52.998.881.2745
www.cancun.info
Caribbean Hotel Association 787.725.9139
www.caribbeanhotels.org
Cayman Islands Dept. of Tourism 877.4.CAYMAN
www.caymanislands.ky
Cozumel Tourism 011.52.987.872.7585
www.islacozumel.com.mx
Dominican Republic Ministry of Tourism 888.374.6361
www.godominicanrepublic.com
Jamaica Tourist Board 800.294.7687
www.visitjamaica.com
Puerto Rico Convention Bureau 800.875.4765
www.meetpuertorico.com
Riviera Maya Tourism Board 877.7GO.MAYA
www.rivieramaya.com
St. Kitts Tourism Authority 800.582.6208
www.st-martin.org
Saint Martin Tourist Office 877.956.1234
www.st-martin.org
Sint Maarten Tourist Office 800.786.2278
www.st-maarten.com
U.S. Virgin Islands 800.372.USVI
www.usvitourism.vi
Yucutan CVB 011.52.999.942.1953
www.mayayucatan.com
