Go! Destination Marketing Caribbean Connection
January 2011

Mark Rogers

Welcome to Caribbean Connection, a monthly e- newsletter from go! Destination Marketing created expressly for travel agents.

It’s our aim to provide you with insights and information to help you sell more Caribbean travel. In each edition, we’ll bring the travel agent voice into the mix, and enliven content with video links that kick it up a notch.

Feel free to reach out to Mark Rogers, the publisher/editor of Caribbean Connection, with suggestions on the kinds of stories you’d like to see.
Mark can be contacted at markrogers2009@hotmail.com
FEBRUARY FEATURED STORIES

Sandals Whitehouse Offers a Jamaica Change of Pace
There’s a good chance if you’re a travel agent selling the Caribbean, you’re selling Jamaica. It’s also a pretty safe bet that many of your Jamaica clients are repeat visitors to the island. [ read story ]

Grand Pineapple

AMResorts Unveils Ultimate Resource for Agents
AMResorts is a company that is constantly changing. It's not only adding new brands, such as Zoëtry and Now; the company is also continually refining the brands that took them to success, Secrets and Dreams.
[ read story ]

AM Resorts

Moonsplash in Anguilla
Easily recognized by his brown hat and laid-back vibe, Bankie Banx is one of Anguilla’s national treasures delighting crowds with his rockin’ reggae for nearly three decades.[ read story ]

Grand Pineapple
Caribbean Marketplace
Last month's Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association (CHTA) Caribbean Marketplace 2011, held in Montego Bay, Jamaica was a huge success as it showcased the opening of the Montego Bay Convention Centre. Here's a slideshow of some of the major players making the rounds. [ read story ]
Grand Pineapple

Ribbing Miss Mary
I’ve been to a lot of all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean, but Grand Pineapple Beach Antigua is the only one that has its own down-home rib shack. Called The Outhouse, it’s the equivalent of a ramshackle roadside stand, but instead of being stuck by the side of the road, it has a glorious position on a bluff overlooking the ocean. [ read story ]

Miss Mary

Sandals

  Click HERE for special travel agent rates from Rio Mar Beach Resort & Spa, A Wyndham Grand Resort and St. Kitts Marriott Resort. Wyndham
Pevonia

American Eagle Expands St. Kitts/Nevis Service out of San Juan

Reggaeton
Pevonia Catch Clean Cook - The Caribbean's
Raw Talent Unveiled in New Series
Pevonia

JetBlue Maps Out Direct Service from Boston to Santiago, D.R.

Events Voices
Dom Rep

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