Member Spotlight: Coconut Coast Villas

Coconut Coast Villas has been on St. John since 1991. It started out as one building with just five waterfront studios and expanded in the late 1990s to another building and a total of nine waterfront rooms. The establishment has studios, two bedroom and three bedroom suites. Coconut Coast Villas is situated between an Audubon…

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Seaborne Airlines Appoints Mike Bradley Vice President Maintenance and Engineering

Mike Bradley is returning to Seaborne Airlines as Vice President of Maintenance and Engineering. In the new position, Bradley will serve as the airline’s FAA Part 119 director of maintenance (DOM). Bradley, who started his aviation career as an aircraft maintenance technician for the U.S. Air Force and who previously served in maintenance management roles…

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U.S. Virgin Islands Tourism Department Appoints Joe Boschulte

The U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism is deepening its working relations with the cruise industry by appointing an industry specialist to bolster the work of the Ports of the Virgin Islands, an alliance between the Virgin Islands Port Authority, The West Indian Company Limited and the Department of Tourism. Commissioner of Tourism Beverly Nicholson-Doty…

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Caribbean Not Taking Full Advantage of Tourism’s Benefits, Says CHTA CEO

Empty hotel rooms are costing the Caribbean billions of dollars in economic opportunity each year, warned Frank Comito, CEO and Director General of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association. With an estimated 84,000 hotel rooms vacant each night, filling just 10 percent of them would inject nearly $2 billion into the region each year. “We…

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