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St. Kitts and Nevis ranks number 1 on Best Caribbean Vacations list

By Katherine Verano in St. Kitts

St. Kitts & Nevis has just ranked #1 in a list of the 16 Best Caribbean Vacations by US News & World Report.  The publication allows people to vote whether or not the destination belongs on the list, which determines 50% of the ranking. 

Click here to view the article/list: http://travel.usnews.com/Rankings/Best_Caribbean_Vacations/

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Announcing Pavilion Hill, Christophe Harbour’s newest neighborhood

By Katherine Verano in Real Estate

Christophe Harbour is pleased to announce Pavilion Hill, the newest ownership opportunity at Christophe Harbour. With sweeping views of Sandy Bank Bay and the harbour, Pavilion Hill is just steps from the newly constructed Pavilion beach club which offers casual dining, a beachside cabana bar, and poolside and shoreside activities.

Choose among only seven homesites, each averaging a third of an acre, for your island home.

A Pavilion Hill purchase includes membership in the Christophe Harbour Club, and purchase incentives are available for early construction. In addition, Christophe Harbour is an approved project under the real estate option of the St. Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment program.

Initial interest has been strong, and...

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Air Canada Announces New Weekly Flight from Toronto to St. Kitts

By Katherine Verano in St. Kitts

Air Canada will begin service to St. Kitts on December 23, 2011 for the peak winter 2011/2012 travel season. The weekly non-stop flight will operate from Toronto on Fridays through April. It will be the island’s only non-stop commercial flight from Canada, effectively making St. Kitts and sister island, Nevis, a more viable winter destination for Canadian travelers.

Air Canada flight AC1778 will depart Toronto (YYZ) at 8:40 a.m. and arrive into St. Kitts’ Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport at 2:40 p.m. every Friday.  The same-day return flight AC1779 will depart St. Kitts at 3:40 p.m. and arrive into Toronto at 8:00 p.m.  Air Canada will use an Airbus 319 aircraft with 108 Economy Class seats and 12 Business Class seats...

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St. Kitts Tourism Unveils New Branding, Redesigned Website

By Katherine Verano in Events, St. Kitts

St. Kitts Tourism has a stylish new look in keeping with the island’s developing destination image. Rolled out via a soft launch, a focal point of the brand refresh is a redesigned website, www.stkittstourism.kn, which has just been completed. Along with new imagery, St. Kitts’ new logo is conceived in an elegant script with a open-heart shaped signature graphic and a new tagline that encourages potential visitors to “follow your heart” to the island. Color schemes for the new branding were inspired by the colors in St. Kitts’ natural landscape.

The new branding serves as the basis for the website redesign and has also been rolled out in a new cruise magazine, official social...

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Hawksbill Sea Turtle Nest Successfully Relocated

By Katherine Verano in Christophe Harbour Foundation, Nature and Environment, St. Kitts

This past Saturday, a hawksbill sea turtle nest was discovered by a member of the Christophe Harbour Security Team in the parking area of the Beach House Restaurant. With a quick call to the Sea Turtle Hotline, the St. Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network (SKSTMN) first responders were quick to arrive on the scene. Together, the SKSTMN first responders and members of the Christophe Harbour team relocated the nest, containing 118 ping-pong-ball-sized eggs, to a safer location on Turtle Beach. The SKSTMN team will carefully monitor the eggs during the 60 day incubation period and excavate the nest once the hatchlings emerge to determine hatch success.

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