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This fabled sea, covering more than a million square miles and 7,000 islands with diverse languages, cultures, and ecosystems, has become probably the planet's premier vacation playground. Here it's all about its regional issues and allures.

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Caribbean Info & Resources

EXPERTS: media Robert Curley, Lea Ann Fessenden-Joseph, Dave Herndon, Connie Motz, Gay Nagle Myers, Melanie Reffes, Jordan Simon; publicists Steve Bennett, Cheryl Andrews
VENDOR: travel agent Ruth Kuehn

info sites:
Caribbean-Direct.com
CaribbeanEdge.com
Caribbean-Guide.info
CaribbeanMuseums.com
Caribbean-On-Line.com
CaribbeanTravelForums.com
CaribbeanTravelMag.com
CaribSeek.com
CheapCaribbean.com
DebbiesCaribbeanResortReviews.com
DefinitiveCaribbean.com
GoCaribbean.About.com
GuideToCaribbeanVacations.com
OneCaribbean.org (Caribbean Tourism Organization)
www.UncommonCaribbean.com

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Don't forget, Tripatini also has many groups devoted to various individual Caribbean-basin destinations, including Alabama, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bonaire, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, the Dominican Republic, Florida, Honduras, Jamaica, Louisiana, Martinique, Mexico, Mississippi, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Barts, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Martin/Sint Maarten, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Texas, Trinidad & Tobago, the Turks & Caicos, the US Virgin Islands, and Venezuela. And more are being added weekly!

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Boating in the Caribbean 2 Replies

I posted this on the boating group, but you guys might be able to help too. Some friends and I are looking to do 2 weeks boating in the Caribbean. We want 1 week with a crewed cat, and 1 week on our…

Started by David Lawrence. Last reply by David Lawrence Mar 15.

Name that island 11 Replies

I just saw this photo on an eTurbo News story about flights to the Caribbean. I think I know just where this photo was taken; what's your educated guess?

Started by Ed Wetschler. Last reply by Ed Wetschler Mar 2.

Delta to fly nonstop from JFK to Grenada. 1 Reply

They'll begin in June. Is there any downside to this?

Started by Ed Wetschler. Last reply by Lea Ann Fessenden-Joseph Feb 24.

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Comment by Steven Fox on March 3, 2010 at 3:12pm: Tony,
Could you take a look at a collaboration that we are doing with Cap Maison on St. Lucia? If so I'll forward over the details and press release..
Steve

Comment by Jordan Simon on March 3, 2010 at 2:49pm: Thanks for the shoutout. In fact it's a companion piece of sorts to a post I did a couple of weeks ago: http://travel.aol.com/travel-ideas/galleries/direct-flight-caribbean-islands

Allie, I wish I could, too, but the word-count restrictions are intense -- and while my editors do a fine job, inevitably some details, factual to evocative, are lost in the cutting and rearranging....

Comment by Allie McCoy on March 3, 2010 at 1:11pm: Jordan Simon writes well and seems to know these islands well, but I wish he had included names and phone numbers for the hotels.

Comment by Jose Balido on March 3, 2010 at 11:32am: Check out member Jordan Simon's excellent round-up of wallet-friendly Caribbean isles on AOL. Makes me want to start packing!!

Comment by Tripatini on March 1, 2010 at 1:57pm: Tripatini would like to congratulate member Steve Bennett on the launch of his fascinating new web site, www.UncommonCaribbean.com. Check it out!

Comment by Jose Balido on February 11, 2010 at 9:51am: CTO Forecasts Growth in 2010

By Robert Kelly, eTN | Feb 10, 2010

The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) is forecasting a rebound in visitor arrivals in 2010 with moderate growth expected for the region on the heels of positive indicators from the fourth quarter of 2009.

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Comment by Jose Balido on January 20, 2010 at 3:30pm: Howdy folks,
We have a very timely and provocative topic going in the Cruising group which I think you may wish to weigh in on. Just click here to put in your two cents' worth.

Comment by David Paul Appell on January 20, 2010 at 3:03pm: Last night I attended a French St. Martin dinner, presentation and mini-trade fair in Miami Beach. Great product, great people -- and famous artist Sir Roland Richardson was there, too! Anyone have any recent thoughts/observations on the island to share?

Comment by Tripatini on January 18, 2010 at 5:27pm: Front and center on the Tripatini blog this week: the Caribbean's best off-the-beaten-track shopping. Check it out!

Comment by David Paul Appell on January 13, 2010 at 8:28pm: Especiallty all of us who love the Caribbean need to band together right now to support the relief agencies starting to pour aid into Haiti after the total devastation wrought by this week's earthquake...