Transcultura Programme seeks to insert cultural and creative industries in Caribbean tourism By Daily Pérez Guillén Kishlane Smith creates monumental costumes out of cardboard, crepe paper, aluminum rods, tie wire, contact cement and lots of glue which are displayed at the Junkanoo, a  national cultural festival of the Bahamas. Krumah Herelle is a tour operator at Pitons, two volcanic spires that rise side by side from the sea over 700 meters high joined by the Piton Mitan ridge in St. Lucia. Jaime A. Ramón Morales coordinates the Free Walking Tour local development project in Havana to show visitors around the city free of charge. Leidys Hernández Lima, also from Cuba, together with her partner and other artists, makes Cuban punto music visible through the Oralitura Habana project. They and other young people from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Suriname and Trinidad presented their projects at [...]

Antigua & Barbuda to host Caribbean Travel Marketplace in 2025 Antigua and Barbuda has been chosen as the location for the 43rd Caribbean Travel Marketplace (CTM) organized by the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA). The announcement was made during the State of the Tourism Industry Conference (SOTIC) in the Cayman Islands, where Caribbean stakeholders gathered. The event is scheduled to occur from May 18 to 22, 2025 at the University of Antigua (AUA) campus, which recently hosted the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) organized by the United Nations.This will be the first time for Antigua and Barbuda to host the conference, which brings together global buyers and regional suppliers in the tourism industry. Colin James, CEO of the Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority, highlighted the nation’s increased stay-over arrivals this year, which surpassed the record levels of 2019 by 16 percent, establishing the twin-island nation as [...]

Varadero Gourmet International Festival returns this September By Daily Pérez Guillén Representatives from a dozen countries, including Spain, Chile, Canada, Italy, France, the United States, Brazil, China and Cuba, as well as the most important suppliers of food and supplies for Cuba’s tourism industry, have confirmed their presence at the 14th Varadero Gourmet International Festival, which will kick off on September 11. “The evolution of Cuban gastronomy” will be the main theme on which conferences, cooking, gastronomic and cocktail competitions and exhibitions will be held at the event’s usual venue – the Plaza América Convention Center. At a press conference, the Commercial Director of the Palmares Extrahotel Enterprise, Ariadna Viñas, informed that during the three-day event, participants will discuss transformations in cuisine, tradition and haute cuisine; artistic cuisine; knowledge of alternative cuisine, evolution and renewed tradition; and the teaching of gastronomy and its educational and cultural influences. Meanwhile, the Deputy Director [...]