Dated notes
What the trade and travelers are saying.
| Where | What it says | When and source |
|---|---|---|
| Jamaica Gleaner (regional press) | Coverage of the CTO / Caribbean Tourism Organization 2026 State of the Industry conference gives Caribbean-wide hotel occupancy of 73.1%, ADR / Average Daily Rate up 9.2% to US$414.52 and RevPAR / Revenue Per Available Room up 11.4%; St. Lucia cited only for hotel and airlift expansion. | 2026-10-13 · Source |
| St. Lucia Consulate (Canada) news | Consulate highlighted increased summer non-stop service from Toronto: Air Canada twice weekly (Tuesday/Friday) and WestJet twice weekly (Thursday/Sunday). | 2026-07-23 |
| Caribbean Journal | Q1 / First Quarter 2026 European stayovers fell 15.9% to 22,073, the steepest European decline in the Caribbean; the US was described as an increasingly important source market. | 2026-07-03 · Source |
| Saint Lucia Tourism Authority release (govt.lc) | Record April 2026 with 40,752 stayovers, up 8.5% and 3.7% year-to-date; Canada up 45.9%, US up about 900, UK down about 930; WestJet moved to twice weekly and Air Canada upgrading capacity in June. | 2026-06-01 · Source |
| Recommend (US travel-advisor trade press) | Tourism Authority ran a 'What Kind of Summer Are You?' US advisor roadshow from May 19 through New York, New Jersey, Charlotte, Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale, explicitly to expand shoulder-season demand. | 2026-05 |
| The Voice (St. Lucia newspaper) | January-February 2026 stayovers of 76,227 beat 2025 and 2019; hotel occupancy averaged 72% and ADR well above 2019, despite reduced UK/Europe long-haul capacity. | 2026-04-18 · Source |
| Travelling for Business (UK trade press) | British Airways restoring daily Gatwick service from October 2026, adding about 51,000 extra winter seats; Interval-affiliated Windjammer Landing cited a $40M upgrade and one-bed villas from $972 a night B&B / Bed and Breakfast. | 2026-03-27 · Source |
| Tourism Analytics (citing St. Lucia Tourism Authority) | 2025 stopovers totaled 426,676, down 2.1% on 2024; US rose 4.4% to 258,156 (about 60% share) while UK fell 19.7%; December 2025 down 1.4% though US rose 9.6%. | 2026-02-13 · Source |
| Tourism Analytics (citing St. Lucia Tourism Authority) | November 2025 stopovers rose 7.0% to 36,255, led by US arrivals up 17.6%; UK fell 19.6%; January-November stopovers were still down 2.1%. | 2026-01-14 · Source |
| Tourism Analytics (citing Travel Daily News, 2025-10-27) | Winter 2025-26 US airlift up 4%, about 12,000 extra seats: second daily Delta Atlanta and American Miami, extra JetBlue JFK / John F. Kennedy International Airport Saturday, and resumed United Chicago, American JFK and Philadelphia weeklies. | 2025-10-30 · Source |
| Tourism Analytics (citing St. Lucia Daily Post) | Tourism minister said August 2025 arrivals rose 2% but year-to-date trailed the record by 3%, said renovations were removing rooms, and warned rising hotel rates could price the island out. | 2025-09-16 · Source |
Forums
Traveler posts, newest first, word for word.
| Where | What they said | When and source |
|---|---|---|
| St. Lucia is pretty much entirely out of hurricane range. And has an extremely high level of “St. Lucia vibes.” | 2026-06-06 · Source | |
| Congratulations! Which St. Lucia resort did you book? | 2026-02-01 · Source | |
| My husband and I booked a vacation to St Lucia including flights through the Bonvoy app in January 2025 for November 2025. We had to book that far out because of my husband's work. Somewhere we missed the flights were booked through Expedia. I was a little concerned about flight... | 2025-06-11 · Source | |
| I’ve booked St Lucia in November. Hoping everything is good by then. | 2025-06-09 · Source |