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A team of of writers discovering Trinidad & Tobago for 26 years and counting!

Our 5 (well, more than 5) favourite Tobago beaches for 2023

OK, no matter what else you may have come to Tobago to explore, enjoying its truly stunning beaches is bound to feature high up on your list of things to do! So here are our top five — plus many of our other favourites. One quick tip: the further north you go, the quieter the beaches tend to be. And, of course, if you want the low-down on all Tobago’s beaches, make sure to check out the rest of our Beaches section!

Pirate's Bay. Photo courtesy Tobago Tourism Agency

Tobago achieves two green travel milestones

Northeast Tobago declared a UNESCO Man & Biosphere Reserve, right after three Tobago beaches achieve Blue Flag Pilot status Earlier today, the Tobago Tourism Agency Limited and the Environmental Research Institute, Charlotteville (ERIC) celebrated the island obtaining the UNESCO Man & the Biosphere (MAB) designation, which TTAL described as an opportunity to develop and promote

View from the Trinidad Hilton

Trinidad Tourism begins to prepare for T&T border re-opening

Trinidad’s tourism stakeholders are one step closer to safely re-opening the sector to international travellers. Tourism Trinidad Limited (TTL), in collaboration with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), hosted a webinar called Train the Trainer: COVID-19 Health Guidelines for Reopening the Tourism Sector & the Tourism Health Information System on 14th October. Over 200 tourism

Richard Georges. Courtesy Bocas Lit Fest

A virtual Bocas Lit Fest kicks off for its 10th anniversary

The 10-year-old Bocas Lit Fest is now the largest in the Anglophone Caribbean It’s a milestone year for the NGC Bocas Lit Fest: it’s the 10th year of Trinidad & Tobago’s national literature festival (18–20 September, 2020), and it now has grown into the Anglophone Caribbean’s biggest annual literary celebration. The festival’s 2020 edition will

The view from Paramin of Port of Spain with the lights of Point Lisas visible across the Gulf of Paria. Photo by Chris Anderson

New commercial promotes Destination Trinidad to CPL’s global audiences

Earlier this week, Tourism Trinidad Ltd launched a new 60-second television commercial, which is being aired during the international broadcast of the popular Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 Cricket Tournament. This year, the entire event is being hosted in Trinidad and Tobago, and being televised and streamed in the United Kingdom, North America, Europe, Asia

Tobago Heritage Festival. Photo courtesy THA

Updated Tobago Heritage Festival 2020 calendar

After carefully considering of all of the factors surrounding the local COVID-19 pandemic — including that Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram has indicated Trinidad & Tobago now has community spread of the virus, with new restrictions put in place last weekend to address this — the Tobago Festivals Commission Ltd has made the difficult

An aerial shot of Tobago’s iconic Pigeon Point jetty featuring the official “Safe Travels” logo

Safe Travels assurance when you visit Tobago!

Last week, Tobago was awarded the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) “Safe Travels” stamp after the development of a Tourism Industry Health & Safety manual by the Tobago Tourism Agency Limited (TTAL). The Safe Travels stamp is the world’s first ever global safety and hygiene stamp for travel and tourism designed specifically to address

Tobago welcomes your return

When the Trinidad and Tobago government closed the islands’ borders in mid-March to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the Tobago Tourism Agency Limited ran a user-generated campaign to keep travelers and locals “Dreaming of Tobago”, showcasing the island so that it remains top of mind for regional and international visitors amid the pandemic. Now, the