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
Ocean Frontiers Ltd., the dive operation that wrote the book on East End diving in Grand Cayman, has launched the first in a series of custom designed dive boats in a plan to upgrade and expand its fleet to accommodate the company's growth.
"Maintaining an upward trajectory is good for our economy, good for business and good for the people of the Cayman Islands," says Hon Deputy Premier and Minister for Tourism Moses Kirkconnell.