Travel in Jamaica

With a record-setting 2 million visitors already experiencing Jamaica thus far in 2024, the island is saying thanks with a limited-time-only “JAMGETAWAY” offer of up to 65 percent off at 50 participating hotels in six resort areas on the island. 

Avelo Airlines announced a whopping 18 new routes and three new destinations as part of what the startup carrier billed as the "largest expansion in company history."

A low-cost airline is on the move with new routes and flight deals. Avelo Airlines, based in Houston, recently announced a major expansion with its first international destinations of Montego Bay, Jamaica, and Cancun, Mexico.

Jul 24, 2024 • 3 min read

Sandals Resorts International invites travelers to feel the vibrant rhythms and stunning ombre blues of the Caribbean Sea with incredible savings across eleven (11) Sandals Resorts and three (3) Beaches Resorts with the “Rhythm and Blues” sale. The limited-time offer rewards guests who want to bask in paradise just a little longer with up to $1,000 in air credit to be enjoyed this summer and through mid 2025 at select resorts. As an added benefit, for a limited time, booking online at sandals.com or beaches.com earns guests an additional $100 off their stay.

After Hurricane Beryl, Jamaica quickly rebounded, welcoming 55,000 visitors within a week, showcasing resilience and readiness, highlighted by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is aiming to increase tourism revenue in the country by 7.5% next year.

Minister of Tourism Hon. Edmund Bartlett eagerly anticipates the September opening of the Princess Grand and Princess Senses The Mangrove, the first phase of a planned 2,036-room hotel development in Green Island, Hanover.

Every year is an Olympics year in Lausanne, Switzerland, a city of stone buildings, tile roofs and historic church squares perched on a hillside overlooking Lake Geneva. As home to the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Museum, the city is involved year-round in championing the Games, long before and long after the official ceremonies take place. (This year, the Summer Olympics and Paralympics, mostly in and around Paris, run from July 26 to Sept. 8.)

Several airports across the Caribbean have closed and airline travel alerts issued as Hurricane Beryl barrels toward Jamaica.

At least seven people in Jamaica have been killed and thousands of others are left assessing the damage after Hurricane Beryl hit the southern coast of the island in the early hours of Thursday.

Hurricane Beryl bypassed Jamaica without major damage, allowing tourism to quickly resume. Airports are reopening, and the island welcomed over two million visitors in early 2024, showcasing its resilience and readiness to host tourists.

American Airlines will offer three additional flights on July 2, 2024, from Jamaica to the United States as Hurricane Beryl pushes its way further into the Caribbean.With the new flights added, the carrier will operate 14 flights from Jamaica to the United States in response to the hurricane, according to a report from Jamaica Observer.The hurricane already made landfall on Grenada’s Carriacou Island as a Category 4 storm on Monday. At least three deaths have been attributed to the hurricane, which hit Grenada with 150-mile-per-hour winds, according to news reports.The storm has since restrengthened and on Monday night it was labeled the earliest Category 5 hurricane on record.

CHTA President Nicola Madden-Greig commends Jamaica’s preparedness and public-private partnerships in mitigating Hurricane Beryl’s impact, ensuring quick tourism sector recovery.

Thousands of flights were delayed and canceled across the United States on Monday as Hurricane Beryl crashed into the Texas coast.

Queens's skinny, 11-mile-long beach peninsula of Rockaway Beach, on the south side of Long Island, was known in the early 20th century as New York’s Playground. That's thanks to its amusement park, clapboard bungalows, and grand boardwalk resorts, all once frequented by the Vanderbilts and Astors. These days, you won’t find the brahmin—but you will find a vibrant New York City beach destination with waterside burger and seafood shacks (bring your appetite), bars with live music, and, nearby, the timeless South Brooklyn landmark that is Coney Island. Easily accessible from Manhattan—it’s just an hour’s drive or an enjoyable 45-minute ferry ride from Wall Street’s Pier 11—the Rockaways are a perfect summer surfing haven complete with subway access.

World Travel Awards – has revealed its 2024 Caribbean and The Americas winners.

UPDATE: 8:30 AM EST Tues July 2, 2024

The resilient and popular island of Jamaica launched a new summer promotion offering savings up to 65 percent off at fifty of the island’s participating hotels and resorts for travel this fall and winter.

Flight cancellations are piling up Hurricane Beryl menaces the Texas Gulf Coast. Airlines have canceled more than 1,300 flights Monday amid concerns over the storm's heavy rains and high winds, which are expected to produce dangerous storm surge conditions and hamper travel in parts of the country.

Hurricane Beryl has been wreaking havoc in the Caribbean since Monday. It first made landfall on Grenada’s island of Carriacou as a Category 4 storm. The system grew into a Category 5 as it ravaged through the eastern Caribbean, devastating the region with at least seven deaths, Reuters reported. 

The effects of Hurricane Beryl are already being felt in the tourist demand for Caribbean destinations, as indicated by the global travel intelligence platform Mabrian, part of The Data Appeal group, an effect that is evident both in the climate perception and in the short-term demand to travel to these destinations.