Tourism
Camana Bay: a focal point for visitors and locals
Camana Bay has grown into a tourist attraction all of its own over the past decade or so.
Camana Bay has grown into a tourist attraction all of its own over the past decade or so.
When HM the Queen visited the Cayman Islands in 1994 she opened the newly developed Botanic Park, which, at the time, only consisted of a Woodland Trail.
The Cayman Islands is experiencing record tourism figures for the fifth consecutive year which is welcome news for everyone connected to the industry. Tourism numbers for 2018 continue to out-pace all corresponding records for 2017.
Turtles have been closely tied with the Cayman Islands for hundreds of years, since Christopher Columbus first discovered the islands in 1503 and named them ‘Las Tortugas’ after the hundreds of sea turtles he found here.
Record-breaking arrivals for 2017 in both air and cruise visitation represent the best year of recorded statistical data for the Cayman Islands. A total of 418,403 stayover visitors, an increase of 8.55 percent over 2016 and 1,728,444 cruisers visited the islands.
On Friday October 13, 2017, Dart Real Estate announced that it had purchased the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman
Air arrivals are significantly outpacing projections bringing the Cayman Islands closer to registering 400,000 tourist arrivals by year end 2017. July and August were both record breaking months, with a combined total of 77,030 visitors.
A message from Hon. Moses Kirkconnell Deputy Premier Minister for District Administration, Tourism & Transport
One year ago, Caymanian Times published an article titled “Cuba: The competition gets tougher. Our writer had travelled to the Cuban capital Havana to gauge the impact Cuba would have on the tourism market in the Cayman Islands particularly after President Obama’s historic actions in 2015.
Cayman ranked as a top destination in the 2017 Cruisers’ Choice Destination Awards