How COVID-19 Has Affected the Caribbean and Latin America
Countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America are ordering residents to remain at home in an effort to contain the coronavirus. Here’s a look at what some governments are doing as of March 28, 2020.
Trinidad, the southernmost Caribbean island took modest but positive strides in the 2019-2020 season
Photo: Gustavo Frazao/123RF Trinidad projected 70,000 passenger’s arrivals on 27 calls, including three maiden calls and calls from two new-to-island cruise lines. [...]
Point of View. – COVID-19: Cuba to quarantine tourists, close borders for month
Cuba will quarantine foreign tourists from Tuesday (Mar 24) when it seals its borders to guard against the spread of the new coronavirus, the prime minister said Monday, in a move cutting one of the communist country's few revenue sources.
It’s official: Hotels in Dominican Republic are heading for a total closure in the coming days
The hotels on the East coast are gradually closing their doors, laying off staff, concluding with the stay of the few tourists staying and waiting for the ferry flights (charter) to return their guests to their countries.
Costa Rica: ‘If the hotels go down, everything does’
The coronavirus outbreak has paralyzed the global tourism industry, leaving thousands of travelers scrambling to return home and devastating economies that depend on visitors.
Caribbean Countries Get New Tools For Tourism
The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) has signed an agreement with a leading global market research firm, Euromonitor International, through which members can access additional information to aid in their tourism planning.
More than four million jobs are at risk in Mexico
More than four million jobs are at risk in Mexico due to coronavirus leaves two thirds of hotels empty during Spring Break.
Point of View: 6 ways COVID-19 could change the way we live
The COVID-19 pandemic, popularly known as the coronavirus, just like the life-altering event of 911, is likely to change how we live hereafter.
Alexander von Humboldt: A German Second Discoverer of Cuba
German naturalist and researcher Alexander von Humboldt (Berlin, 1769-1859) is one of the most important scholars of the 19th century, considered Cuba’s second discoverer, founder of a modern scientific geography and one of the precursors of ecology and sustainability, in addition to his contribution to the development of several sciences.
Coronavirus inflicts serious blow to LGBTQ travel industry
Atlantis Events, which caters to gay men, has cancelled a cruise on the Celebrity Summit that was scheduled to leave San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 21, and would have made stops in St. Maarten, Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao before returning to Puerto Rico on March 28.
