"The Caribbean had been performing at a healthy growth rate of 5.2 percent between January and June," said CTO (Caribbean Tourism Organization) chair Joy Jibrilu at this fall's State of the Tourism Industry Conference, and growth continued to soar this summer until September, when two Category 5 hurricanes crashed the party. Let's see how this and other events of 2017 will affect the islands -- and you -- in 2018.
By Ed Wetschler
January 12, 2018