If it may still be a tough trek back to anything resembling normalcy for the Caribbean tourist industry, some of the earliest indications are that what the region has to offer in terms of tourist attractions remains highly favoured by the international market.
Just days ago the Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) Frank Comito was reporting that sector was beginning to see an encouraging increase in bookings in the accommodation sector as the region gears up for the start of the winter season.
A week ago, Wednesday, at a CTO Webinar Comito was quoted as saying that the sector is seeing occupancy levels for the winter season slightly above 20 per cent for thirteen destinations in the region. Those numbers reportedly create a change in the outlook of several weeks ago when the initial rampage of the COVID-19 pandemic sent regional tourist islands scrambling to put measures in place to keep visitors out and pondering the immediate-term fate of their heavily tourist-dependent economies.
