It’s one of the crucial essential epicenters within the Caribbean: the neighborhood of islands surrounding St Maarten, from Saba to Statia, Anguilla to St Barth within the northeastern nook of the area. It’s a community of locations all centered on the Princess Juliana Worldwide Airport, the area’s most important air hub, and it varieties a various, wealthy tapestry of locations to go to, all with distinctive identities and choices, cultures, languages and merchandise.
That’s what makes St Maarten’s SMART commerce present so essential: it brings them collectively.
For the week of March 31, all of those locations, joined by hoteliers, executives and different stakeholders, come collectively for an expo and convention, joined by journey brokers, media, suppliers and patrons.
And it’s not simply the islands round St Maarten — locations from Guadeloupe to Antigua, St Kitts to Barbados, Curacao to Dominica. They’re all bringing executives and hoteliers for days of enterprise occasions and conferences.
The occasion kicks off on March 31 with the opening ceremony on the Sonesta Maho (one in all our favourite all-inclusive resorts within the Caribbean, and the highest all-inclusive within the vacation spot that simply opened a brand new adults-only membership), adopted by two days of conferences adopted by a pair of tour and tour days to get out and discover St Maarten and its neighboring islands.
The tourism occasion comes as St Maarten and St Martin are posting robust tourism information numbers, as St Maarten Tourism Minster Grisha Heyliger-Marten lately instructed Caribbean Journal.
St Maarten additionally simply noticed the debut of its fully remodeled airport, a undertaking practically a decade within the making that has meant a totally revamped customer expertise, with new arrival and departure halls.
It’s all a part of an thrilling time for this northeastern nook of the Caribbean, from the luxurious resorts of St Barth to the climbing trails of Statia to the pristine sands of Anguilla.
