Skip the snow and say hello to sunshine. Divi Resorts is helping travelers plan ahead and escape the winter grind with its limited-time Holiday Travel Sale, featuring up to 35% off beachfront stays across the Caribbean. Booking is open from July 8 through July 22, 2025, for travel from November 15 to January 9 — just in time to turn your holiday stress into island rest. Travelers can save up to 35% on warm-weather escapes to the Caribbean’s most coveted islands using promo code COOLOFF.

As the travel industry enters the second half of 2025, a new wave of behavior is shaping how and where people vacation. From spur-of-the-moment bookings and multi-generational traditions to mindful escapes and emerging luxury destinations, this season reflects a more thoughtful, flexible approach to travel. While the economic climate brings a degree of caution, traveler demand remains resilient shaped less by urgency and more by intention.

Vacationers can officially add the ultimate beach day to their bucket lists as Royal Caribbean has opened bookings for the first-of-its-kind beach club experience in The Bahamas. Combining the vibrant culture and beauty of The Bahamas with signature Royal Caribbean touches, Royal Beach Club Paradise Island* will redefine the ultimate beach day across all-inclusive experiences for every vibe. Starting today, vacationers booked on sailings visiting Nassau beginning late December 2025 can purchase their all-inclusive day passes on Royal Caribbean’s website ahead of the destination’s highly anticipated debut in December 2025.

The Bahamas has launched an aggressive national conservation initiative to address and reverse the devastating effects of warming ocean temperatures and a disease ravaging its coral reefs. The country’s first coral gene bank opened today at Atlantis Paradise Island to house, propagate, and replant healthy coral on damaged reefs. The coral rescue initiative is the result of a powerful collaboration between the government of The Bahamas through the Department of Marine Resources, the Department of Environmental Planning and Protection and the Office of the Prime Minister, as well as Atlantis Paradise Island and the Atlantis Blue Project Foundation, the Perry Institute for Marine Science (PIMS), the University of The Bahamas, and the Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Science Institute (BAMSI).

The 12th annual Grenada Chocolate Fest has been heralded as a successful celebration of one of the island’s most treasured crops—cocoa. The festival is very much a community driven event where local people and visitors came together to explore the rich world of Grenadian chocolate through an imaginative line-up of events that combined culture, education, gastronomy, wellness and pure chocolate fun.

In celebration of World Ocean Month, Sandals Resorts and its philanthropic arm, the Sandals Foundation, unveil an expansion of the all-inclusive resort company’s coral restoration efforts across the Caribbean, with new experiences in The Bahamas and Curaçao. These programs join existing conservation efforts in Jamaica, Saint Lucia, and Grenada, inviting resort guests to become part of the brands’ unwavering commitment to protecting the region’s precious underwater ecosystems.