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South Africa is suddenly drawing tourists from Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique. The regional economy is rerouting.
The intra-African tourism flow that development economists have predicted for a decade is now actually happening. Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg are the early beneficiaries.
Mexico blocked Royal Caribbean's Perfect Day project. The Caribbean cruise consolidation now has an environmental brake.
Mexico's environmental ministry refused to approve construction of Perfect Day Mexico. The decision is bigger than one resort.
Caribbean Airlines published the loss numbers. Dominica, St Kitts, and the Ogle-Suriname route end June 1.
$18.84 million in losses across five expansion routes since 2023. The diaspora question: what gets restored by the codeshare, and what stays gone?
Caribbean cruise routes are being cut. Smaller ports lose first.
Fuel volatility is forcing operators into shorter, higher-yield itineraries. The secondary ports are the ones at risk.
Caribbean Airlines retires its last 737-800
Fleet modernization will reshape which routes are commercially viable. The diaspora connection: this was the workhorse aircraft of the trans-Caribbean network.