Caribbean
The Caribbean with its white sandy beaches, turquoise waters and excellent hotels has attracted jetsetters for generations. The islands romantic appeal lies in their natural beauty, tropical weather and easy going lifestyle. It's a fabulous place for families and is now one of the most popular family destinations.
St Lucia is a beautiful verdant island with lush mountains, forest and volcanic peaks. Tobago offers exotic flowers and birds as well as captivating scenery and picturesque beaches. Barbados, the "Little England" of the Caribbean with its sophisticated west coast has a superb choice of hotels and quality restaurants and Antigua with her stunning beaches and climate is idyllic with less rain than on most other islands.
Contact the travelmatters team for more information.
Antigua
Antigua's sugar-white beaches and fabulous coral waters have drawn tourists in ever-increasing numbers over recent years. It is a place for relaxation, watersports, or a combination of both.The inland landscape is rolling and rustic, dotted with crumbling brick chimneys of old sugar mills, which bearwitness to the long colonial era under the British.
Barbados
Beyond the pristine white-sand beaches, the varied watersports and superb golf courses, there is plenty more to occupy the whole family. It has a long list of British quirks and traditions, from afternoon tea, cricket to horse racing. However, it still remains a distinctly West Indian country, peppered with rum shops, endless fields of sugar cane and the swinging rhythms of calypso. Best of all, Barbados is a year-round destination.
Bermuda
The sub-tropical island of Bemuda lies 600 miles off the east coast of America in the Atlantic Ocean and 800 miles north of the Caribbean sea. Bermuda is a watersports paradise: marvel at the diving available at over 400 historic shipwrecks or snorkel around the vast coral reef. For those looking for something a little more adventurous should try big-game fishing, take a Boston Whaler around the bays or you may just like to sit back relax on a chartered yacht.
Jamaica
Jamaica boasts the usual white-sand beaches and blue-green waters of the Caribbean, but it is its dramatic inland scenery that is the added bonus. From the aptly named Blue Mountains, to the spectacular Dunn's River Falls and rafting along along the Martha Brae. The island is a favourite with artists, writers and musicians hoping to be inspired by its scenic splendor and soothed by its laid-back lifestyle and colourful reggae rhythms.
St. Lucia
It is situated between Martinique and St. Vincent and north of Barbados. Its dramatic twin coastal peaks, the Pitons, soar 2,000 feet up from the sea, sheltering magnificent rainforests where wild orchids, giant ferns and birds of paradise flourish. The island's people have eraned a well-deserved reputation for their warmth and charm and the island itself is dotted with aged fortresses, small villages and open-air markets.
Switch off, Save big
‘Switch off, Save Big' kicked off in April 09 with a series of workshops in Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada and Antigua.
Hotel owners, managers, financial controllers, housekeeping and maintenance staff were all invited to come and learn about simple cost effective measures they could take to become more sustainable, all the while reducing costs in the area of water and energy usage.
In 2010 the project continues to support the hotels already involved, and aims to work with a further 50 hotels, as water usage has become increasingly important, following the droughts of 2009 and early 2010.
Tobago
Adopt a farmer project
The Adopt a Farmer project has been successful in forging greater relationships between farmers and hotels, decreasing the dependency on imported produce.
To date, twenty five farmers and their families supply hotels with over £26,000 worth of local produce. Farmers earn 30%-100% more for their produce, using the revenue to invest in more land and new crops. This increased income has improved the wellbeing of the farmers and their families.
School Gardens project
The School Gardens project instils an interest in agriculture among school children and aims to persuade students that farming is a viable career option. Working initially with six primary schools, the project has since expanded to include secondary schools.
The schools have small gardens in the grounds and grow fresh herbs to sell to hotels. Over 100 children are now learning about agriculture, growing herbs and making a profit to buy books and supplies.
The success of the project has meant that a small nursery has been built at one of the schools with the assistance of NEMA and the Division of Infrastructure and Public Utilities.
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